On Amazon the Apple SuperDrive was listed as selling more than 1K in the last month so someone is still buying them. As someone who still collects audio CDs, I use mine often to rip CDs into digital files.
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Apple Still Selling These Old and Often Forgotten Products in 2024
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More like supplying people who keep their old devices rather than raw sales number, or making profits because we all now Apple doesn't care about DVD or 3.5mm jack, or 30pin dock anymore. But some people out there still do.
It needs a wheels accessory to allow for effortless travel across office environments. It's a heavy burden having to carry this thing around. Same with the keyboard.
Years ago, I was like this: new computer, mobile phone, iPod, etc. Not including video game systems always upgraded etc. etc. Seeing how innovation starts changing faster than in years........ I stopped. Being married also caused me to think then having children. Apple products I was always upgrading years. after getting involved in the stock markets. I started to rethink my buying habits. I hold on to my iPad until it needs to be replaced for 5 years, iPhones for 5 years, etc. To me, it's senseless to get the newest devices every %&'%&'% year now.
So do I!... Use my Super Drive to rip DVDs. In the last two weeks the Blu-Ray drive was unable to read the movie, 'Wisdom' whereas the Super Drive did. I still have 3.5 mm plug EarBuds in my car as a back up for my Nokia smart phone plus I purchased USB C EarBuds when the iPhone 15 Pro Max was released (also in my car). Life without music is blah.
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I get that the Ultra isn't intended for formal wear, but Apple should still offer a 49mm version in matching titanium of the Link Bracelet for those who do like those bands.
Yeah the 45mm can be used but it is a mismatch in colors and that would be unacceptable at the price. Also being that it is a 45mm band, it doesn't look quite right in terms of thickness on the Ultra. You can get away with that difference in some bands, but not the link IMO.
Yeah the 45mm can be used but it is a mismatch in colors and that would be unacceptable at the price. Also being that it is a 45mm band, it doesn't look quite right in terms of thickness on the Ultra. You can get away with that difference in some bands, but not the link IMO.
180 currently and only the smaller one but yeah good deal for those who want one.
My AOL CD is better served as a coaster though.
$300 is a perfectly fair price for the feet: it costs $400 to get wheels instead of feet when you purchase the Mac, or $700 to buy the wheels later - leaving you with a spare set of feet. Basic arithmetic tells you that those feet
are worth $700 - $400 = $300. I don't know what everybody is complaining about!
Give Apple credit - it is brilliant design: make a huge tower workstation that begs to be kept under a desk, put the power button and a couple of the USB-C ports on top where you can't get at them if the Mac is under a desk, then charge $400 extra for the wheels that solve that problem... esp. if that only gets spotted and added on after you've won the tender. To be fair, many large PC vendors do that sort of thing with business-oriented products if they can get away with it, but they don't generally advertise it to consumers the way Apple does.
The majority of people never had Lightning devices to begin with. If we go by what a majority of people use now Lightning is just as insignificant as 30-pin. Also, Lightning has a successor, so if you want to use iPhone, iPad or accessoires like Pencil, Airpods, but don't want to use Lightning, there are newer versions available that don't require Lightning. If you want to use iPod you can't skip 30-pin unless you count that castrated iPhone that is the last iPod Touch in which case you should really just get an iPhone instead.
Thus, Lightning will eventually die out as decades from now nobody will use an iPhone 14 anymore when there is iPhone XXX anniversary edition and other modern iPhone iterations. iPod on the other hand will always remain fantastic for playing music.
I use the 30-pin cables pretty regularly to charge old iPods - well, except for my main iPod, it uses a FireWire cable.
And I burned a disc last week, that's not an uncommon thing for me.
Of course, I'd never buy either from Apple, much cheaper other places, you can get a slot-load Blu-ray drive for what Apple charges for a DVD drive. But over the years I've ended up with some Apple cables and drives.
I do wish they'd sell wired keyboards. For most purposes, a wireless keyboard is just stupid. The only place I use one is the living room, to control the Mac Pro Trashcan that's my living room TV computer now. Maybe I should get the Kensington adapter for it.
And I burned a disc last week, that's not an uncommon thing for me.
Of course, I'd never buy either from Apple, much cheaper other places, you can get a slot-load Blu-ray drive for what Apple charges for a DVD drive. But over the years I've ended up with some Apple cables and drives.
I do wish they'd sell wired keyboards. For most purposes, a wireless keyboard is just stupid. The only place I use one is the living room, to control the Mac Pro Trashcan that's my living room TV computer now. Maybe I should get the Kensington adapter for it.
Not just wired keyboards, but the old wired aluminium keyboards that originally showed that 'chiclet' keyboards can actually be good and which make the current Tragic Keyboard look and feel like cheap tat.
My trusty - probably ~2010 - wired keyboard is starting to lose some of its markings, after years of daily use. Yet, the Tragic Keyboard that I got with my 2017 iMac, which has probably only had about 6 months use in total (I gave it a good college try but kept going back to the old one), is already starting to lose some key markings and the whole thing has bent - and now tends to spin around on the desk which the middle is now touching.
As you say - unlike a mouse where the cable can get in the way, there's really not much point in a wireless keyboard for desktop use. Plus, the wired keyboard has a handy USB hub where a mouse dongle fits completely out of sight...
Best you can say for the Tragic keyboard is that it never got the butterfly treatment - but it still has the new "worse is the new better" scissor mechanism with substantially less travel than the original Apple "chiclet" keys.
I use the very last model iPod Classic ever released modified with 1TB of flash storage running rockbox still receiving updates. On first glance it looks no different from any other iPod, but it's got better thought out clickwheel navigation as well as features like a parametric EQ that is night and day compared to what EQ Apple offered for iPods. You don't need iTunes/Finder to sync anymore either but if you prefer it you can sync it just like you would an iPhone.
If you go out right now to buy a small dedicated music player, maybe just because like me you receive a lot of calls and don't want your music to be interrupted every single time - you will soon find that there's either cheap trash or overpriced supposedly high-quality "Hifi" players and finding a used iPod on craigslist is solid middle ground to get a gorgeous looking player with good build quality and depending on the model excellent sound quality and the option to change the storage to 128GB-2TB flash.
I wish there was something more modern and better to use, but we're at a point where modern tech especially from Apple just presumes we always got access to fast internet or a charger nearby. On roadtrips with spotty internet or after running out of battery on the AW/Airpods I just found it best to use a dedicated device that stores my entire library and doesn't need to be recharged more than once or twice a month.
Love it! Wow never thought of any of that. What a cool use case. I have an old iPod laying around, but I never thought to pick up again. I just stream these days.
That "crap" you're talking about is what set the foundation for RCS (iMessage) and USB-C (lightning).
For giggles, I tried hooking up an old USB 3.5” floppy drive to a PS5 a while back and was able to copy a screenshot from the PS5 to a floppy disk. I doubt it would play a CD but would probably recognize the drive as a mass storage device.
I always wanted that Link Bracelet, but that price was just ridiculous. Good to see they still have no desire to sell them. Good thing I found a nice knockoff on Amazon for under $100.
I'm still using Apple's AA battery recharger. The batteries are long dead, though.
I still use a 3rd gen ipod to listen to music when I want to completely tune out and relax, no distractions