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The End of an Era: What Was Your Favorite iPod?

I rebuilt an iPod Mini with a 256GB flash card and it's my daily driver music player now because APPLE MUSIC SUCKS AND IS SO FULL OF STUPID BUGS.

Anyway, I also want to rebuild my 7G Classic but they're terrifying to open.

I dearly love all the click wheel iPods. They just work. I say play music, they play music. So simple.
 
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ToomeyND said:
My favorite iPod? maybe not. My most used and convenient? Absolutely. The way I see it, this is what eventually morphed into the Apple Watch. The only thing holding this shuffle back was the need to have wired headphones. Had bluetooth been around at the time, this would have been even better/a bigger draw. You never worried about damaging it. It transferred data THROUGH THE HEADPHONE JACK. This shuffle was magic.
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True, the OG iPod was the one that I just marveled over because it was such an amazing total package. The shuffles were just loads of fun.
 
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The 2005 lineup is iconic. What a great era.

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My favorite was definitely the 2nd gen iPod, just because it was my first step into that world after years of carrying around a CD wallet and a cassette walkman before that.

Next favorite was definitely the iPod Touch. Being a cheapskate, I spent a year or two carrying one alongside my Motorola as a kind of glorified PDA. It was brilliant so long as you could find a wifi network.

I still think they were great starter devices for kids or for people without the means to afford a cell plan. With wifi as widely available as it is now, the irony is that an iPod Touch would work better now than it did back then.

One thing that's fun is that I actually got that 2nd gen iPod replaced by Apple right before I bought my first iPod Touch. I still have it, and it's almost unused. I should probably sell it one of these days...
 
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iPod Classic (the 6th gen, I think). Also equally loved Sony NW-A800 Walkman. Both were built like a tank.
 
my first ipod was the nano 3rd gen. The square one. Had one for me and my wife. That was our introduction into Apple, and it hasn't stopped since. Also like the little clip on shuffle for running workouts.
 
This was my favorite "iPod". Because it was the only "iPod" I ever owned. I went straight to iPhone in college from this Motorola ROKR E1 that Steve Jobs demoed on stage at one point. It was terrible, lol. It only held 100 songs and it took like an hour to sync.
 

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For me, it would be the 3rd gen iPod nano, my first iPod (and my first MP3 player, before that I had a late model Sony [cassette] Walkman as my only portable music player, mostly due to being a poor high school student and not having a computer). That said, the last gen iPod or the iPod Classic are, well, classics, and I’ve always been intrigued by the 6th gen iPod nano, just could never justify buying one (especially after I bought a 4th gen iPod touch). The OG model, the iPod with Click Wheel, and the iPod with Dock Connector are classics, as well. The 4th gen iPod touch was likely the pinnacle of the iPod touch range, it was pretty much the only time the iPod was toe to toe for performance with the iPhone, and it got camera(s) and a microphone, too.
 
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There was also this bastard middle step in-between 😂

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macduke said:
This was my favorite "iPod". Because it was the only "iPod" I ever owned. I went straight to iPhone in college from this Motorola ROKR E1 that Steve Jobs demoed on stage at one point. It was terrible, lol. It only held 100 songs and it took like an hour to sync.
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Such a cool, obscure, elusive part of Apple history, though
 
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I loved my old click wheel iPod. 120 gigs is how big I think it was. It was great and lasted for several years before it died. I remember getting it for I think christmas 2004 and I it was great. Use it for the rest of collage. I got a touch years later. I like the older style of just music over all.
 
I have fond memories of the click wheel. All the touch-screen-everything is a step backward in many ways, as far as tactile control without having to always be looking at the device.
 
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The ipod shuffle was my fav. Perfect for exercising. Would still use it today if it had a larger storage capacity.
 
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