Taiwan companies also have a hand in making iPods and iMacs, they said, as well as game machines for Sony and Microsoft.
Two physicists who discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks, making iPods and other wonders of modern life possible, were chosen as winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday.
When you've been making iPod and iPhone docks since the beginning, what is there to do but tweak the design every once in a while?
From doing a lot of art theory reading and recognizing this post-medium condition where everything bleeds into everything else, I got really into curating music at openings and stuff and making iPods for people.
Kaufman came up with the idea for Kluster at his last startup, Mophie, which makes iPod accessories and was recently sold to mStation for an undisclosed sum.
But by 2005, Jobs recognised that making iPods wouldn't be enough: modern phones would soon be able to store just as much music as a cheap iPod, and make phone calls too.
"For the past five years, we've been laying bricks, not making iPods".
His business partner Foxconn CEO Terry Guo makes his billions making iPads, iPods, and iPhones with 800,000 "iSlaves" in China.
Another factory in Suzhou, Shanghai, makes iPod shuffles.
