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Apple Discontinues iPod Touch
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ya but u are not the one to descide it when a product line died. It died now in 2021 and not when u concern.
For god´s sake he is only giving his personal opinion on the matter.
Some of us out there still use 1080i TVs and don’t need a 4K AppleTV. Not interested in paying more for something I don’t need. Since the majority of things I watch are either HD or 480p….I’d rather not stretch them out to look like trash.
The iPod was my first Apple device, and in many ways the reason I fell in love with Apple as a brand. Thanks for all the good times, nano ?
no ashame on that. Where we want to put all those tv /monitor 1080i /p in iur home just sake of 4k . My nintendo switch not 4k . Most good story nice in 1080p (netflix) . I once got to my friend house and see 4k tv , hmm some aka channel (not usa) streaming still stuck in old age and a bit garble for me but for normal user.
As fallback , we like our airpod shuffle upon long time ago era and also ipod touch 6 th gen. Booth of them good music player and long hour .
Sad to see it being discontinued. It came in some bright colours too.
Almost the same here. Had an iPod Classic around 2006/7 but managed to have it fall over one day when using a speaker dock at work and trashed the screen so ended up getting an iPod Touch 2.
Seems like a lifetime ago now… and to think, at the time, you had to pay to upgrade the software ?.
If I hadn’t just bought an upgraded ipod classic last month I would have bought one of these. Loving the classic. It mostly lives in my home office on a doc but the sound quality is so much better than Spotify
I had (and regret selling) my 4th-Gen iPod Nano. It was a neat little device but at the time I had thought it was redundant when I had finally bought my first iPhone (4).
I still have a 2nd-gen iPod Shuffle in my nightstand, a semi-rare 2GB model (most were 1GB). I'm gonna hold onto that one... it was the "gateway drug" to my full-fledged buyin to the Apple ecosystem.
Rest well, iPod.
I still have a 2nd-gen iPod Shuffle in my nightstand, a semi-rare 2GB model (most were 1GB). I'm gonna hold onto that one... it was the "gateway drug" to my full-fledged buyin to the Apple ecosystem.
Rest well, iPod.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
If you remove the SIMcard from an iPhone, it’s literally an iPod touch in everything but name. It works only when on Wi-Fi, just like an iPod touch. You can download things to it, just like an iPod touch.
I still use an Apple TV HD as well.
I’m not asking for Apple to stop supporting it or anything like that.
But they’re still selling a 2015 product in their store brand new for $150, only $30 less than the 2021 4K.
It’s absolutely ridiculous.
It’s time that it’s discontinued.
It’s ok, most people don’t know this, not even people in these forums. An iPhone with an inactive line/no SIM does not act exactly like an iPod Touch, because when used as a secondary device with other Apple devices, the (inactive) iPhone does not have full Continuity functions like the iPod Touch has (I’m assuming you’re familiar with Continuity). This is because the iPhone wasn’t intended to be used as a secondary device. Again, the main example is it cannot make outgoing phone calls and sms texts via your primary (active) iPhone via Continuity. But there are other examples, like Handoff is pretty unusable. The iPod Touch has full Continuity functions because it is meant to be used as a secondary device.
If you‘re skeptical, I encourage you to test all this out for yourself.
Tragic, yes, but it is way overdo. Personally, even though the iPod touch was my first ios device, I have very little attachment to the touch series. That is not the case for the nano and classic series. I have quite a collection of these devices and use some of them daily. The iPod will truly be missed
Apple today announced that it is officially discontinuing the iPod touch, an out of date accessory that has been replaced by other devices like the iPhone and the iPad. Apple says that it is eliminating the iPod touch because its capabilities are available across Apple's product lineup.
The iPod touch is the last remaining device in the iPod lineup, and it has not been updated since May 2019, three years ago. In a statement, Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak said that the "spirit of the iPod lives on" in other Apple products.
Apple introduced the first iPod 21 years ago in October 2001, and at the time, it was a revolutionary music device that put thousands of songs in the pockets of Apple fans. Apple introduced many iterations of the iPod, including the iPod Shuffle, the iPod nano, and the iPod touch, but all have since been phased out and discontinued.
The iPod touch will still be available for purchase through Apple's website, Apple retail stores, and through Apple Authorized Resellers while supplies last.
The seventh-generation iPod touch is priced starting at $199 and it features a 4-inch display with thick bezels, a standard Home button with no biometric unlocking mechanism, and an A10 Fusion chip. It is available in Pink, (PRODUCT)RED, Space Gray, Silver, Gold, and Blue.
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For me, the iPod died with the retirement of the clickwheel iPod Classic. I think no other interface represented and will represent Apple for me forever.
If Apple ever came out with an internet-connected iPod Classic with headphone jack and a high quality d/a converter (with the ability to make use of their high quality music files) I would buy it and subscribe to Apple Music instantly. If it supported Airpods for casual on the go listening listening and podcasts, that would be an added bonus. But basically, I just want a great music experience from Apple. Using any of their iPhones with an adapter still feels like a compromise to me (and I am subscribed to Tidal instead of Apple Music because why not on a device that supports all those apps).
If Apple ever came out with an internet-connected iPod Classic with headphone jack and a high quality d/a converter (with the ability to make use of their high quality music files) I would buy it and subscribe to Apple Music instantly. If it supported Airpods for casual on the go listening listening and podcasts, that would be an added bonus. But basically, I just want a great music experience from Apple. Using any of their iPhones with an adapter still feels like a compromise to me (and I am subscribed to Tidal instead of Apple Music because why not on a device that supports all those apps).
It was gonna happen eventually at some point.
Man, now i'm glad i bought an iPod Touch last year.
(Though, i mostly use it for a clock, but hey, i'm using it for SOMETHING.)
Man, now i'm glad i bought an iPod Touch last year.
(Though, i mostly use it for a clock, but hey, i'm using it for SOMETHING.)
I still use an iPod Nano 6th Generation (the little square one) every single day. One of the most useful devices Apple ever made, in my opinion. I've got four of them: an everyday driver, a backup, and two off eBay that I'm refurbishing the batteries on.
I regret selling my iPod classic 160gb, those things are selling 6 times more than I paid for it, I didn’t know there was a niched market for this were internal memory gets upgraded, this is why I was holding out hope for an iPod classic renewal so I can “buy” another one at retail price, now that I’m looking at PMP such as the new walkman and oh boy, they are going for iphone pro and iMac Pro prices (1,400-3,200$)
I think the real story is likely Apple had closed down the A10 production when they updated the ATV 4K a year ago and moved on from the A10X, and likely at the same time just shut down the entire line, so that meant axing the A10's production as well. Since the only device left using A10 was the ipod touch, and it sold in such low volumes, Apple had enough A10's on hand to keep selling for a while until now, that inventory of A10s has run down and apple only keeps around a small handful to serve as service units.
Interesting enough, I've just picked up a new iPod touch from my local apple store and while messing around with it, found it had been manufactured in 2019. Meaning it has been sitting on a shelf for around 3 years.