Apple needed to offer a music player that many more people could afford. And that came in 2004, the year of the first-ever ...

It’s perhaps the best example of Apple killing one of its darlings. The iPod mini was introduced at Macworld San Francisco in 2004. In his keynote, Steve Jobs declared war on the Flash-based MP3 ...

A hard disk-based digital music player from Apple. Introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2005, the Mini was the first smaller model of the iPod. Although its hard disk capacity was limited to a ...