"1000 songs in your pocket" is not a spec. It was a selling point. Songs, of course, are variable length things, so it's a marketing statement, not a spec. At t

"1000 songs in your pocket" is not a spec. It was a selling point. Songs, of course, are variable length things, so it's a marketing statement, not a spec. At the time the only way to get this many songs in your pocket was with massive pockets to hold a MP3 CD jewel case. Jobs didn't just build a faster horse when it came to the iPod. It was engineered purposefully to satisfy that desire.