iPhone Savior: Happy Birthday iPod, You're All Grown Up Now

photo credit: Ray Basile @iPhoneSavior.com

I heard that iPod was having a birthday so I baked it a cake. A decade ago, on October 23, 2001 Steve Jobs announced Apple's game changing iPod. The rest is history. Apple's portable music player with its signature scroll wheel was released on November 10, 2001. The device set in motion a digital music revolution that Apple still dominates today with over 16 billion songs downloaded from iTunes, and 300 million iPods sold.

The iPhone Savior team celebrated iPod's tenth anniversary in grand style by designing an official birthday cake along with a handful of mini brownies used to showcase a few iPod shuffle devices. Although most of the cake was decked out with hand-cut iPod art, I included my own 20GB 4th generation model at the front. I wasn't able to locate my original click wheel iPod in time for the photo shoot.

Our ridonkulous iPod cake design took over four hours to complete. The tort is white cake with a raspberry filling, frosted and then topped with white chocolate. The mini brownies are covered with dark chocolate then topped off with whipped cream. The end result was incredibly delicious.

In order to make this anniversary celebration even more over the top, I decided that singing happy birthday was in order. So I video taped the grand buffoonery using my new iPhone 4S as we all wept openly. Happy birthday iPod. You may be getting older, but you're still getting better with age.