The design language was ahead of its time (somewhat). Remember, this was before the era of flat bottom aluminum designs with chamfered edges like the first iPad mini and iPad Air, or the one-piece aluminum back of iPhone 6. Also if I remember correctly this was the first non black/white iOS device Apple made.
not really. The A5 in mine was already getting really sluggish on iOS7. Even simple tasks like opening the music app hesitated a bit. The camera was a nice upgrade over the previous generation's joke
The best example I can think of are parents who want to give their child an iOS device that gives them the capability to do almost everything an iPhone does except make calls.
What was col and way ahead of it's time...it the original iPod with the chrome case and clicky search wheel. I wish I still had one of the many that I had....just as a desk chachky (spelled wrong)
warehouses, retail shops, etc. they're more "programmable". ie; a large company already builds in-house apps its much easier to port over to iOS then it is to buy and configure other unrelated devices. security, one less network point of entry on the device and can be managed. these are just a few limited capacities it can be used in.
We already have SD and microSD cards that are with 1TB storage so I don't think if ever they manufacture one, it will not be as big as the classic iPod... I've seen some people from YouTube replace the old HDD with an SD card and an adapter so I think you want it for a bigger battery and not for ton of storage since as we all know in terms of data access speeds HDDs are no match for flash storage...
I work for a movie theatre and iPads and iPod touches are used for a variety of functions, as our POS system has several iOS-compatible apps. The iPod touches are mainly used to scan guests’ tickets (inside a scanner case). They can also be used to communicate and view schedules etc.
My kids both loved their iPods, I was pretty salty however that I bought the 6th gen iPod touch for my daughter right before the 7th gen was announced, and Apple for whatever reason didn’t include the 6th gen in the iOS 12 release pool. So within 6 months of her receiving it, and with a year and a half of AppleCare remaining, it was already rendered obsolete.
I think you're mistaking the 6th gen as the 5th gen... iOS 12.x is the last version available for 6th gen iPod touch...
I charged up my older 160 GB classic iPod and tried to connect it to my 2019 accord. The accord had no idea what to do with the iPod. I really have no use for the three old iPods I still have because of that now. Four years ago I was still using the iPod in my car daily.
True, I meant something like an iPod - iPod.... not ipod touch, music and internet for music... like a dap.
I actually misidentified the iOS version, it is on 12 but won’t go to 13. Thanks for pointing out my error. My point is that I found it ridiculous that the OS major version it shipped with is the only one it’ll run.
I understand where you're coming from but I did a Wikipedia search and the 6th gen iPod touch was initially on iOS 8.4 then can only update to iOS 12.x
It only became a verb when planned obsolescence became a thing.
Keep in mind that apps in the iOS ≤6 eras were significantly smaller and less bloated than they are now, and 16GB was actually pretty passable. Back then most apps were under 100MB.
Jeeze I've had that thing a long time.
The really old iPods used ZIF 1.8" or CF-card sized drives you could just swap. When my 40GB iPod died I took the drive out and put it in a USB enclosure and used that for years until flash drives caught up on capacity.
This is exactly it. I know a bunch of large organizations that use these cheap iPods as single app handheld devices. Warehouses for inventory (The iPod clicks into scanner hardware, becoming a larger unit), roaming POS in stores.
