Since I started to write about UI design and iOS apps again 5 months ago, I became more and more disappointed with the native music player on my iPod touch. During my research, I found many innovative ...

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

but players have came in all sizes, with some units including FM radio (see iPod). A music player app comes with all smartphones and tablets, as well as many satellite radio receivers and in-dash ...

With the iPod Nano and its Shuffle entering the "obsolete" graveyard, the only other music player left in Apple's portfolio outside that league is the iPod Touch, which was officially discontinued ...

A spokeswoman for the company called the BusinessWeek story "speculation," but confirmed that Microsoft was considering its own music ... media players before Apple, the iPod has trounced rivals ...