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

I kinda miss in the iPod’s heyday, when almost every year would see a completely new design for the nano. It was exciting, and no current Apple product line offers that same excitement generation to generation.

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Also, I kinda want to get a last gen iPod Shuffle… seems like something that could still be of use years down the line. If only it had Bluetooth and worked with AirPods…
 
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I had three iPods:
  • A 4th-gen iPod Photo that my dumb ass bought 10 days before Apple announced the iPod Video. Thankfully, the Apple Store up the road took pity on me (and a restocking fee) and let me return it for…
  • A 5th-gen iPod Video. This thing was my primary music player for four years, and was almost never out of my pocket. Short movies, notes (especially video game walkthroughs), photos, eventually games (Tetris was great), and of course 60 GB of music. I loved this thing, but by the time I finally got an iPhone in 2009, I didn’t have a use for it anymore, so I sold it.
  • A 2nd-gen iPod shuffle. I picked this thing up from Target in 2007 at a heavy discount since it was an open-box return; I think I paid maybe $30 for it. I mostly used it for workouts or in scenarios where I didn’t want to risk damage to my bigger iPod. I still have this thing, but I loaned its charge cable to my (now former) neighbour 10 years ago and never got it back.
The fifth-gen iPod was obviously my favourite, but once I went iPhone, I never went back. It definitely feels like the end of an era seeing the final demise of the iPod lineup, but the writing has really been on the wall since January 2007.

That said, Apple wouldn’t be where it is today without the iPod. It arguably saved the company, catapulting it out of its status as a niche computer company and setting the stage for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and even AirPods. If you told someone in the mid-2000s, at the absolute height of iPod mania, that it would soon be an also-ran product in Apple’s lineup and discontinued completely by 2022, they’d have probably thought you were nuts. And yet here we are.
 
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MacRumors said:


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.


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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OG iPod was my fav...I remember how new and exciting it was. And it was something my friends that had Windows didn't get to experience.
 
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Sad but expected. I'm certainly not taking a thousand dollar phone out to mow the lawn even if I owned one.

The first iPod nano was a my favorite. The sixth generation one is too hard to use while sitting on a riding lawnmower. I sent in my original nano for the battery replacement. and they must have broken it while replacing the battery. Apple sent back a sixth generation one instead. I can't fault them for that.

When the nano dies I'll have to see what Amazon has for an MP3 player.
 
I had (still have, I think) the black classic 32 GB with the chrome sides and back. I don't think it boots anymore. For the longest time I thought I'd never want my music in my phone, but I made that transition with the iPhone 5 and never looked back. Now my iphones and ipads all have all of my 10,000 songs and I can't imagine NOT having my music with me at all times!
 
My first Apple product was the iPod video I bought in June 2006 with some of the money I got from my high school grad party. I remember my parents taking me to Best Buy to purchase it. I wanted one to be able to listen to music while walking around campus in college, that was the gateway drug into Apple for me. :)
 
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The original iPod was based on a fragile HDD, scratched if you looked at it wrong, came with remarkably uncomfortable earbuds, and required a slew of dodgy third-party software to sync for young Windows-using me… and the moment I laid eyes on it, I knew something was different—better—about this fruit-themed computer company I had always derided. So although it was bettered both technically and designwise by almost every iPod that came after, it will always be my favorite. You never forget your first :)
 
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My first one: the iPod with touch wheel, 20GB. Loved that sound of the hard drive working and used it daily for several years for music, but also for storage. I still have it and it still works. After that one I got the black Nano. Beautiful design.
 
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I've got a couple versions of iPods in boxes around here somewhere. I found them when I packed up on my last move. I will cherish them when I find them again. lol. But my first one was the click wheel and boy did I pack that thing with the most music possible. I loved it.
 
iPod Nano 6th gen was always my favourite version, worked great as a watch until the official watch :)
 
In 2005, while living in London, I decided to visit Internet friends in Chicago on a whim. I brought home a Creative Zen Jukebox Xtra from that trip, and it was… great… if you didn’t move too much, else its fragile hard drive would have to re-index. I decided to keep visiting those friends, and on my return, the woman who would be my future (and now ex) wife showed me her 1st gen iPod Nano. I was smitten with the device, bought my own in black, and that kickstarted my Apple fandom. I hated my office Macs, but this little device convinced me to give a Mac mini a try - the rest is history.
 
It’s the disconnection for me. No apps, no notifications, no web interface. Just music in my pocket. I will never switch to using my iPhone as a music player. My iPod Classic 160 is still going strong. Got my eye on a red revamp on eBay. Just listening to music, disconnected from all this noise. The King is dead, long live the King.
 
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