Apple+History+Lesson

2001 Apple introduces the iPod, a palm-sized, hard-drive-based digital music player

2003 The iTunes Store opens. The software-based application allows users to shop for music, audiobooks, movies, and TV shows for download over the Internet.

2005 The iPod adds video, and Apple fills out its portable media line with the low-end iPod shuffle, and sleek iPod nano. (Through 2009, it sold more than 220 million iPods.)

January 2007 Apple announces the iPhone. The device features one button on its smooth face and has a “virtual” keyboard. It also introduces Apple TV, considered one of Apple’s lowlights.

September 2007 Apple unveils the iPod Touch — essentially an iPhone without the phone — which has wireless capabilities and can perform much like a portable computer.

2008 Apple opens the doors to the App Store as an update to iTunes. The store features small applications — from games to social and business tools — that add functions to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple also releases the Macbook Air, a slim portable computer.

2009 Apple releases the iPhone 3GS.

2010 After months of speculation, [|Apple introduced the iPad], a sleek, full-color, half-inch thin [|touchscreen gadget designed for a variety of media], from videos to games to electronic books, [|movies] and newspapers. Apple is hoping the device will be a new growth engine, particularly as iPod sales wane.

Since 2010 Apple has introduced the iPhone 4, 4s,5, and coming this fall the 5s. Apple has also updated more current versions for it's iPad collections, including a "mini" or smaller sized iPad. As well as a variety of new changes and updates to its iPod collection over the years.