Happy 24th Anniversary, iPod

[turbineseaplane]

Big Ones! 🥰
I remember going to buy that CD at Tower Records.

 

[yabeweb]

Big Ones! 🥰
I remember going to buy that CD at Tower Records.

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!

 

[Kar98]

> "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

 

[surfsofa]

I still live in hope of a modern storage solution for the 1st gen. Mine has a dead Toshiba drive #sadface

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

There is a part of me that wishes this device still exists. Its mechanical controls were so elegant and fun. It added something to playing music.

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 : )

Luckily, Bang & Olufsen didn’t patent the wheel that they invented for their stereo— if they had, they’d be rolling in money.

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

Actually, Bang $ Olifsen stole the idea from Intellivision video gaming counsel from 1978. Look at the controllers from 1978!

Crazy…good catch!!!

I buy practically nothing of contemporary music because for me most music from the past twenty-five years is garbage.

My 7th gen iPod Touch won’t last forever, but I still have my old iPhone 8 which I could use as a glorified iPod albeit it’s bulkier than the iPod Touch.

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?…

Remove the camera modules from the iPhone Air and include the USB-C to 3.5mm adapter in the packaging.

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.

 

[Mity]

You just described an old iPhone.
Besides, cellular just paves the way for 'apps' and intrusive notifications.

Just get an iPod touch

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.

 

[Makosuke]

…people have little use for a music-only device in 2025.

I know it’s not what the article meant, but the AirPods Pro 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.