I have a iPod Nano 3rd gen fat boy 8GB in silver, still works, still holds a charge. I had a blue iPod Touch once that I sold to help fund an Apple Watch. I should have kept it as it's a cool device, tempted to pick another one up before they are all gone actually.
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The End of an Era: What Was Your Favorite iPod?
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Well, one could always insert a pre-paid SIM card into an unlocked iPhone. Actually, I’m still using my first SIM card from when I bought my first iPhone, two phones later, on a pre-paid plan. Oh sure, I pay for unlimited voice/text/data each month, but it’s still a thing, you could easily put a pre-paid SIM card in and turn off cellular completely in the Settings app.
Seems the hard drives and some of the other components the iPod Classic depended on ceased being produced, so Apple was more or less forced to drop it. (Wouldn’t have been economical to bring another manufacturer online for whatever meager sales the iPod Classic was getting.) Could be the same thing with the iPod touch.
Oof, the MZ-RH1, definitely a great looking machine. Back in 2020, I wanted a dedicated music player with an FM radio. I looked at iPods, I looked at replacing the 3rd Gen nano that got stolen from me years ago (and buying Apple’s FM dongle used or NOS), I looked at the 6th Gen nano, but I realized that I couldn’t really justify it (especially since I use Apple Music, and I knew that syncing my iTunes library to an old iPod was going to be a pain because of that). I ended up buying a Sony MZ-NHF800, which isn’t as sleek a unit as the MZ-RH1, but it’s still HiMD and it powers from AA batteries (a detail I didn’t fully appreciate when I ordered it but that I appreciated as soon as it arrived from the UK), and it uses the same radio remote as the MZ-NF610 (it came with the British remote, which means that I only had 9kHz spacing on AM and FM, but the remotes aren’t region locked, and I bought an American remote supporting 9kHz and 10kHz spacing on AM, FM, VHF TV audio, and NOAA weather band, reminding me so much of my cassette Walkman back in the day). Since I also kinda wanted a recording device, this gave me a device that could record as well as act as a dedicated portable music player.
Oh, those short-lived Minidiscs such sad memories ?
The iPod Touch. It was the device that got me into Apple's world. Before that I am not sure I ever touched an Apple product. It impressed me enough that I ended up buying a 24" iMac which sealed the deal. Now I am pretty much all Apple.
For all our talk of how clean and minimalist phones are from a design perspective, the UIs aren’t nearly as clean, so there’s something about these early iPods (especially once the touch wheel came out and the iPod no longer had the four separate buttons above or around the wheel) that seem very clean and minimalist even today.
Man, I loved Cover Flow and I miss it. I wish a developer would make a third party app to bring it back.
There’s at least one app on the iPhone/iPad that will do it. I almost never use it, but I’ve got an app called Album Flow Pro on my phone that is Cover Flow for your music library. There’s a free version available, too, if you just want to try it out.
The only one I ever owned was the rather controversial 1st gen shuffle:
When the iPod mania exploded I had just begun high school and definitely didn't have the money to own one of the better ones.
My sister (older than me) started working, therefore she could afford the first nano with a colour screen and it's useless to say I was very jealous.
It feels so weird for kids nowadays to think of separate devices to call and listen to music, but the iPod was really a revolutionary product and it really changed the market, even by kickstarting the competition (I myself used to have a 512MB Creative Zen MP3 Player.
It's so cool, now that I have a decent job, to be able to afford Apple products while I used to lust over them back in the day.
I work in animation and I begun my career on a hackingtosh, but now (10 years later) I can actually afford Apple products (although barely).
When the iPod mania exploded I had just begun high school and definitely didn't have the money to own one of the better ones.
My sister (older than me) started working, therefore she could afford the first nano with a colour screen and it's useless to say I was very jealous.
It feels so weird for kids nowadays to think of separate devices to call and listen to music, but the iPod was really a revolutionary product and it really changed the market, even by kickstarting the competition (I myself used to have a 512MB Creative Zen MP3 Player.
It's so cool, now that I have a decent job, to be able to afford Apple products while I used to lust over them back in the day.
I work in animation and I begun my career on a hackingtosh, but now (10 years later) I can actually afford Apple products (although barely).
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October 2001 Apple. com site introducing the iPod
An indigo iMac G3 was my first Apple device. An eMac was my second. The 3rd gen iPod Nano was my third. Fun times.
What an incredible year was 2001 for Apple.
The iPod, the first macOS X system, iTunes, the Powermac Cube, the titanium powerbook.
Damn!
When I went to design uni my family, through immense sacrifices, purchased a 3.5K mac pro (which I still have), however I remembered being a little disappointed in the performance (relative to the cost).
Those were already the initial days of the mac pro downfall; thankfully Apple became viable for professionals again with the apple silicon chips.
Back in 2010, it really made more sense to have a PC for any serious work, and it remained the case up to pretty much 2 years ago.
Now with the M1MAX & ULTRA it's a whole different situation.
I'm also condifent the apple silicon mac pro will be immensely powerful.
I had several Zunes. They all had superior sound quality compared to the iPod .This one.
The 'Stick' 3rd gen shuffle, 6th gen 'classic', 3rd and 6th gen nano.
And I have a pink Zune. I really wanted the brown one (because it was a turd) but was gifted a pink one for some reason.
And I have a pink Zune. I really wanted the brown one (because it was a turd) but was gifted a pink one for some reason.
Apple today announced the official discontinuation of the iPod touch, the last remaining device in the iPod lineup. The sunsetting of the iPod touch marks the end of a 21-year era, that all started with the 2001 iPod.
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Over the years, Apple introduced multiple iterations of the iPod, including iPod mini, multiple versions of the iPod nano, the iPod shuffle, and the iPod touch. We want to hear from you - what was your favorite iPod? Let us know in the comments below, and share your iPod photos with us.
Apple said that it is discontinuing the iPod because the iPod's capabilities have been built into the entire Apple product lineup, from the Mac to the iPhone to the Apple Watch.
Apple plans to continue selling the iPod touch on its website and in retail stores while supplies remain, but once it sells out, it will be gone for good. The iPod touch is priced starting at $199.
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This is predicted, but still sad. Tragic... So, no 7th gen Classic with terabyte capacity? No 'x year anniversary' edition? Sad...
The thing I remember most about the original iPod was its effect on my net worth. I had purchased some shares of AAPL in the previous ten years, but on the day of the announcement of the iPod, I could see the writing on the wall and I purchased a large quantity of AAPL. It has paid off for me and my family, sending four grandchildren to college, numerous vacations overseas, and a secure retirement. I still have the original.
Let's see... my first iPod was the all-solid-state 3rd Gen (I hated those controls), then I picked up a 4th Gen iPod+HP when those were being cleared out when the HP deal was discontinued (much better controls!).
Then I finally settled on an iPod 5th Gen with Video. It was my favorite—clicky, still with the lucite front and metal back, a color screen, and I went with the 60GB, so it had a decent amount of space. It was used in my home office, in the car, at work, on vacation (I watched all of The IT Crowd on it on a plane way back when). Once I had an iPhone with decent space (the 32GB iPhone 3Gs), the iPod made its way into our oldest's nursery as a music player, then to our youngest's when he was born, then as a player in a shared area they play in. Once the boys reached the point where they were setting their own musical tastes, we moved to a HomePod in their area and the iPod was packed-up and put away. I finally donated it last year.
I still think there is space for a dedicated music player—especially as we begin to see more of the iPhone's functions on the Apple Watch. I guess, if I could, I would love a classic iPod with wifi, Bluetooth, 512GB of storage for lossless files (not just the ability to stream), and could be parked on the home network as the music library and then picked up and dropped in the car, etc. (but that seems pretty niche as everyone wants streaming now). Time will tell, I guess.
Then I finally settled on an iPod 5th Gen with Video. It was my favorite—clicky, still with the lucite front and metal back, a color screen, and I went with the 60GB, so it had a decent amount of space. It was used in my home office, in the car, at work, on vacation (I watched all of The IT Crowd on it on a plane way back when). Once I had an iPhone with decent space (the 32GB iPhone 3Gs), the iPod made its way into our oldest's nursery as a music player, then to our youngest's when he was born, then as a player in a shared area they play in. Once the boys reached the point where they were setting their own musical tastes, we moved to a HomePod in their area and the iPod was packed-up and put away. I finally donated it last year.
I still think there is space for a dedicated music player—especially as we begin to see more of the iPhone's functions on the Apple Watch. I guess, if I could, I would love a classic iPod with wifi, Bluetooth, 512GB of storage for lossless files (not just the ability to stream), and could be parked on the home network as the music library and then picked up and dropped in the car, etc. (but that seems pretty niche as everyone wants streaming now). Time will tell, I guess.
The iPod mini. My first Apple product. (And first time I could afford it) Shortly after o started to buy a MacBook and stayed with Apple.