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iPod Turns 18: Here's What People Thought in 2001

iPod mini 1st generation 4 GB was my gateway drug back in 2004.

Still have and use an immaculate last generation (7th) classic 160 GB and it trucks along just fine.

I just wish they would've made the 5th generation nano in a 32GB flavor, it would've been perfect and those bright colors were amazing, not this pastel crap they seem to always do now when they do something in colors.
 
katbel said:
I still have mine: 40Gb with all the pouches, stand, chord and and big firewire plug
It was a special gift and there is some written on the back that makes it even more special to me.
The battery last only 5 minutes~ and I'm using it mostly connected to the charger. With iTunes I was able to use it as an external disk too. Now it's only for songs and connected to good speakers, the transparent spatial look (HarmanKardon) the music is still good. Is it possible to change the battery? Where could be possible to find it?
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I purchased a replacement battery on eBay a few years ago. It lasts most of a day with listening to music on it in the current state it is in.

Not too hard to install, but if you have issues with it, you may be able to talk someone at one of those cell phone battery changing kiosks to do it for you if you bring the iPod and battery to them.
 
What an innovator Steve Jobs was! We’ll never see this kind of innovation from that mediocre MBA suit Tim Cook.
 
I never had an iPod until the Nano. I’m going to get crap for this, but I really loved my Zune. The font, layout, navigation, and color was great. And it “just worked”.
 
I wasn’t an ‘OG’ iPod owner, but there’s something classic about that design that I really like that carries Steve Jobs heritage. But I can tell you being a seventh GEN iPod owner, I love that little device. I use it all the time in the gym, the small, lightweight form factor is perfect. Long live the iPod through its years of existence.
 
psac said:
There are already two products similar to this on the market. The Nomad Jukebox and the Archos Jukebox which can come with a 20 gig hard drive.

I had the Nomad jukebox, and it really kicked butt, but it was HUGE, the size of a "portable" DVD player/discman back then, and then I transitioned to the Archos portable video player, which was a REALLY nice device (with maybe the worst customer service of any company in existence), and you could record video directly off of TV/cable out plugs.

So no, I personally never really thought the iPod was a great device.

Adding the phone changed everything.
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I was not a fan on the iPod either until I got a nano. I had the Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra. Smaller then the normal Nomad. That thing kicked ass. I still miss it. The controls and menu was a lot easier to navigate and make playlists on the fly why walking to work.
 
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Still rockin' an iPod Shuffle for running. Wish Apple would revisit the Nano line with physical buttons.
The Apple watch is an option, but the touch screen is not the best interface when running with sweaty fingers or in the winter.
 
now i see it said:
The iPod was convenient but hands down sounded like crap. It was the official beginning of the death of HiFi.
Never bought one. Didn't like what I heard.
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You're probably confusing the iPod sound with whatever the music was ripped at. I still have a couple of MP3s from the old days that were joint stereo 64k or 128k, and wow do they suck.

At some point everyone who cared started ripping at 192, 256, or 384, which sounds mostly fine on consumer-level headphones. Then once apple lossless came out the really hardcore went there.

At this point I have like 6 flash-upgraded iPod 5.5s so I can drag my music collection around with me. You never know when you want to hear that one particular concert or album, and not everywhere has cellular data.
 
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I have a co worker who was using a FireWire iPod right up until she got an iPhone X.

Couldn’t believe the thing still worked after 15 years, but still played music just fine.

seems like forum comments also remain consistent all these years later.
 
Ah man, good times. Love how the comments are still relevant if you replace iPod with Watch/TV+/etcetera.

Although I do miss being an Apple fan 18 years ago... smaller community and all.
 
tevion5 said:
For most people of my generation an iPod was their first Apple product. The iMac was cool but it was still a fairly niche product for established Apple fans. The iPod made Apple unavoidable for the whole decade.
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I got the gen 3 as my first apple product and then quickly had to replace my 20gb pc laptop for more storage... with my second Apple product (iMac).
 
Probably been posted already, but if not...

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

Classic. 🤣
 
I bought a 2nd gen 20GB iPod just after the 3rd Generation was released. I'm still using it after 16 years. Yes, it's had a few third party batteries (none have ever lasted as long as the original battery) and three years ago I had to replace the HD.

I've always used it in my car, it still works perfectly...... I still look at it and think it's a fantastic design.

I also have a couple of 5th gen 60GB iPads (one original and one I've put in an iFlash adaptor)
 
I got my first iPod in 2003. I can still remember the magical unboxing experience and more specifically the smell. I've obviously had numerous phones and unboxings since but that one will forever be a special and unique memory.
 
keysofanxiety said:
MacRumors' comments section could learn a lot from history. With very few exceptions, pretty much every negative comment made 5 or more years ago has been completely disproven with time. I'm sure it'll be the same 5 years later.

All of the below have been failures. Apparently.

Apple Watch, iCloud, Beats acquisition, iPad, MacBook Air, the latest MacBook Pro (and the model before that... oh, and also the one before that...)
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I notice you did not include the mac pro trashcan :)
 
Thought it was too expensive.
Held one. Took less than a minute to decide. I don't own three models.
 
My iPod Classics are still going strong and I’ve updated one with 400GB of flash storage. My original iPod and 1st gen Nano have long since been retired but I’ll always keep them.

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macfacts said:
The iPod was a failure until iTunes for Windows was made.
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Apple likely knew from the start it would open it up to Windows. The first few months let them manage demand.

That said, the original iPod was the first Apple product that I bought. Soon after it came out, some software hacks emerged to enable Windows PCs to use it. I added FireWire to my desktop Windows XP PC and installed the hack. Somewhere along the way something got messed up, so I took it to one of the then-brand new Apple Stores and got it reset. A few months later Apple opened it up to Windows officially, using third party software at first.
 
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