Any other members interested in an iPod / Early iOS Devices sub-forum?

[840quadra]

Greetings,

(Grey area if this should be community discussion, or Site / forum Feedback as for me this is a request for the site)

(Also.. Posting as a forum user, NOT a Moderator!)

I was curious if there was any remote interest (by others) for a sub-forum for early iOS , even iPod devices?. As a collector of things Apple, I personally don't feel it is correct to post about such things in the Apple collector forum as this is a subset of (normally) much newer devices.

There are a few of us on here that own and operate older iOS & iPod devices, and just wondering if there is a (unlikely) remote chance of others being interested in such a sub-forum.

iPods have the ability to be upgraded to items such as SD cards, different hardware, batteries, etc. Older iOS devices have opportunity of using legacy iOS applications (32 Bit and older), and have an ecosystem of apps that don't relate to modern iOS .

As a community we do have some similar sub-forums in the MacRumors ecosystem.

Early Intel Macs

PowerPC Macs

It is entirely possible that I am in a rare minority on MR, but was curious if there were others interested in asking the MR Gods for a sub-forum for discussions on collectables that are not fully Mac related?

 

[GGJstudios]

Maybe I missed something in your post, but what about these existing subforums?:

https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/ipod-touch-and-ipod.113/

https://forums.macrumors.com/categories/older-ios-versions.185/

 

[theMarble]

This question has been asked before, but it didn't go anywhere as it was somewhat-agreed that there wasn't a big enough community for a new sub-forum to make sense.

 

[GMShadow]

As expressed in 2022 I'd like one, but yeah, market for it might be pinched.

Though, given that the iPod forum itself is pretty quiet these days (and the line is retired), I do wonder if it might either be repurposed or given a subforum for this purpose (like how the iPad forum is split between iPad/iPad Accesories), if forum 'clutter' is a concern.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Yes!

I use a variety of iPod Shuffles, daily in fact

I love to talk in dedicated sections about devices from the more "golden" era of Apple (at least more golden in my view)

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I still have (and use, when travelling) an iPod Classic, - an amazing and marvellous device and an incredible invention that is up there with the wheel, fire, flushing toilets, running water, among many other wondrous inventions - to my (probably biased) mind.

 

[tranceking26]

I still use an iPod Classic. Would be cool to have a place in the forum for these.

 

[840quadra]

Not a big enough crowd to make a thing of it. I am doing some comparisons of old devices and do enjoy discussions on older iPod and iOS devices quite a bit.

The existing sub-forums (IMHO only) could be merged or made larger to include older iPhone / iPod devices as one.

Maybe I missed something in your post, but what about these existing subforums?:

https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/ipod-touch-and-ipod.113/

https://forums.macrumors.com/categories/older-ios-versions.185/

Those really don't cover the older devices themselves.

 

[GGJstudios]

Not a big enough crowd to make a thing of it. I am doing some comparisons of old devices and do enjoy discussions on older iPod and iOS devices quite a bit.

The existing sub-forums (IMHO only) could be merged or made larger to include older iPhone / iPod devices as one.

Those really don't cover the older devices themselves.

Looking through the headlines in the iPod touch and iPod forum, there are numerous threads about the devices themselves. The same is true for the older iOS versions covering earlier versions of iOS.

I'm not sure what you're looking for that isn't covered by the existing forums.