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Happy 24th Anniversary, iPod
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The pity nowadays ( I am getting older I guess ) is that we have plenty of ways to hear great music, but the number of great artist / music is shrinking.... Can't have both I guess, either audio quality of artist quality.
We have few gems here and there, there is hope as there are some young talents, but I feel like I really lived the best era in music......From Queen to Pink Floyd, from Abba to Bee Gees, rolling stones, Beatles ...the lis't goes on and on!
Never had one. So I can only imagine the joy of using it day in and day out. Feeling like you’re a DJ lol. Then you have the satisfying clicks and the minimalist UI…good ol Apple : )
Hm this reminds me of the Bang homephone my pops brought back from a euro biz trip…it had the spin/click wheel and everything. Good stuff thanks for the recap lol
Crazy…good catch!!!
A) Radiohead is keeping modern music alive
B) why not just get one of the iPhone SEs instead of using the bulkier iPhone 8? Wait I was assuming 8 plus what I had. Maybe regular 8 is about same size as SE?…
No way, Jose!
If it’s a DEDICATED music player only it absolutely must have a 3.5mm headphone jack equipped. No ifs ands or buts. To this day I’d still prefer my 16 pro max had it. I wouldn’t trade battery life for it…I’d trade 120 hz for it, however. Yes I’m aware the two technologies probably aren’t physically swappable/comparable in size …I’m just sayin.
No, I didn't describe an old iPhone. DAPs exist for a reason, otherwise everyone would use old Android phones with expandable memory. Being able to support high-impedance headphones and not just Bluetooth AirPods is important and so is having different DAC chips from AKM or ESS instead of just CL for better signal processing.
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I know it’s not what the article meant, but the AirPods Max are pretty close to that, and arguably at least as much as the iPod was given it also was used for audiobooks and became so closely associated with shorter form spoken audio they’re literally called podcasts to this day.
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This help?
iPod 1st Generation Hard Drive Replacement
Upgrade your storage with a new hard drive.
www.ifixit.com
Never had the OG, but regularly use the OG Touch (iPod 3rd generation with touch controls and before click wheel) regularly, as well as my 5th gen (first with video).
Upgrading storage from original hard drives and new batteries have been awesome. Fun to use them on flights and have them be a conversation piece with fellow passengers.
Upgrading storage from original hard drives and new batteries have been awesome. Fun to use them on flights and have them be a conversation piece with fellow passengers.
I know what DAPs are. You just proved my point. Most DAPs don't have cellular conectivity.
Hmm...Why would I suggest cellular connectivity? Maybe so people can stream Apple Music, Tidal or Spotify, if they choose to...
One of the main selling points of the iPod... it's its simplicity.
Don't over-engineer solutions.
Want some fancy DAC and screen and avant garde apps for """lossless""" audio? Just plug a DAC to your Cellphone.
Want to avoid the whole deal with current music listening? Get an old school iPod. It just works ®
Don't over-engineer solutions.
Want some fancy DAC and screen and avant garde apps for """lossless""" audio? Just plug a DAC to your Cellphone.
Want to avoid the whole deal with current music listening? Get an old school iPod. It just works ®
My prototype 1st gen iPod is one of the best pieces I own. Everyone wants to talk about the iPhone but the iPod really paved the way for what Apple now relies on.
To be fair they were frigging awesome.Steve Jobs and his reality distortion field tricked me into buying one.
No regrets.
Wish I'd kept mine... I transitioned from my MD player to one of these. Had to work my butt off in a warehouse during the school holidays to afford it. Put every dollar I'd earned over ~2-3 months into it!
I don't think lossless audio was a thing with these? 5GB of storage and nobody was using them to play .wav files.
Agree with your vibe though.
FWIW with lossless audio one of the easiest hacks is to plug an airport express of ~3rd gen AppleTV into you amp and stream music over using AirPlay.
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I still have no idea why these took off. There were many considerably more capable devices available at the time, for around the same money. I bought an RCA Lyra with a 3.5” color screen capable of playing video long before the iPod was, and an Archos 604 with WiFi and a web browser long before the iPod Touch came out. Both could even connect to a set top box and record TV shows if you wanted them to. I suspect many people simply had no clue what else was available on the market.
I’ve been an on-again-off-again Mac user since 1999 and full time since 2006, but the iPod left me scratching my head the whole time.
I’ve been an on-again-off-again Mac user since 1999 and full time since 2006, but the iPod left me scratching my head the whole time.
I remember not knowing a ton about Apple back then. I admired their computers and thought they looked super nice compared to PCs but when the iPod came out I was stunned. We had nothing that looked that nice on the PC side.
My first Apple device was an iPod Mini (green). I was deployed to Kuwait at the time and when it arrived I was smitten. It was my best friend when I was driving laps around the desert for 18 hours a day (literally).
It met a tragic fate sadly so I no longer have it. It fell out of my pocket at the gym and I dropped a 75lb dumbbell on it. I then replaced it with a regular iPod...which eventually led to me getting my first Mac.
My first Apple device was an iPod Mini (green). I was deployed to Kuwait at the time and when it arrived I was smitten. It was my best friend when I was driving laps around the desert for 18 hours a day (literally).
It met a tragic fate sadly so I no longer have it. It fell out of my pocket at the gym and I dropped a 75lb dumbbell on it. I then replaced it with a regular iPod...which eventually led to me getting my first Mac.
As mentioned above the iPod just worked, which was right inline with other Apple products. And while some things have changed I feel this is still an essential difference between Apple and Windows. I find Windows hopefully confusing, but to be fair I don’t use it regularly. But I find it easier to navigate an Apple device than Windows or Android device more intuitively. And they seem to have fewer issues. Then there is also the build quality.
My iPod Touch, while not as appealing as my old 3rd gen Nano, just works. I don’t use it for anything other than music. Not for internet, not for pictures, not for anything but music.
Yeah, I could use my phone for music as well, but I just prefer using the iPod.
My iPod Touch, while not as appealing as my old 3rd gen Nano, just works. I don’t use it for anything other than music. Not for internet, not for pictures, not for anything but music.
Yeah, I could use my phone for music as well, but I just prefer using the iPod.
Buckle up ...
A PowerBook G4 17" I bought in 2005 was $2300 (and that was a good price), which is $3800+ today.
Surprisingly my old $1299 CA 21.5 iMac in 2011 is about the same price as a current M4 iMac in Canada. Maybe a $50 difference.
Because of what you just said, people wanted a music player that worked well,it was easy to use and no fuss..
Add browser, video recording and all that ,people were not interested.
There was very very little better than an iPod at being an …..iPod, it was easy simple durable and without frills.
I was well aware of the competition, was not interested as they offered something i was not ….interested in.
the iPod 1st gen was a bliss to use, it was pure music.
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