Apple’s best selling music products, the “>iPod and iTunes have scooped a prestigious design award.

INDEX is a Danish award ceremony that only takes place every four years.

The “>iPod and iTunes products shared the Play award this year for “truly changing the way people experience their music,” the organisers said.

“Apple devised a solution that is as noteworthy for the ingenuity of its business model as it is for the high design ‘coolness’ of the product,” Macworld News reported.

INDEX creatives commended Apple for its creation of a “cultural phenomenon”.

“The product is chic, totally cool, very well engineered and designed and its standard-setting, elegant user interface has become a benchmark in its class.”

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