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What was your first Apple iDevice?


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iPod 2nd Generation

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Sorry about that I was just scrolling through my Music Library looking for The Foofighters XD
 
Hmmm my first iDevice was the 1st gen iPod nano, 4GB, black.

I remember being so excited - Microcenter had them for 20% off even though they had only been out for about 2 months at the time.

$200 instead of $250. I got the last one in the store- they said they couldn't keep them in stock with the sale. That was, what, 2005?

TOTAL gateway drug.

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Since then,
3rd and 6th gen iPod nano;
1st, 2nd, 5th gen iPod touch;
30GB iPod with video;
3GS, 4S, 5S, and 6 iPhone;
1st, 4th gen iPad;
2nd gen iPad mini.

I think that's everything lol.
 
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Original iPod nano. But I returned it in the recall and now have one of the later versions. I wish I kept the original.
 
1st Gen iPhone. Having had things like Psion Organisers, it was exactly what I had been waiting for. First computer - ZX81, with 1 kB RAM...
 
The original iPhone I call iphone 2G. I never purchased an iPod. Later the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S and now the 6.

In hoping there will be a 4.7" or smaller screen next hardware update.
 
I received the second generation iPod mini in green as a birthday gift a few months prior to the release of the iPod nano. I remember thinking I looked so uncool using my iPod mini when everybody else had iPod nanos! Nowadays things are quite different. I only actively used it for about a year and a half before upgrading to the 5.5 generation iPod in black. I was absurdly careful with it because I didn't want it to get covered in fingerprints and scratches. I used it until I upgraded to the first generation iPod touch 16 GB upon release in 2007. I was so impressed by the iPhone, but I was on contract with Sprint and couldn't switch to AT&T.

In early 2010, Sprint made a change to their terms of use which gave me a loophole to break out of my contract. Originally I wanted to wait until the iPhone 4 to upgrade, but I had to abruptly switch to AT&T in order to make use of the contract loophole. I bought an iPhone 3GS in black, 32 GB. I used my 5.5G iPod concurrently until I lost it later that year, which was replaced by a third generation iPod touch 32 GB that I received as a gift. I used both the iPod touch and iPhone 3GS until the release of the iPhone 4S in 2011. Since I had an iPod touch, I only got a 16 GB iPhone 4S which proved to be way too limited by the time I upgraded. At some point during this time, I bought a 1G iPod nano and had it replaced by Apple and I received a shiny new 6G iPod nano 8 GB in silver... which I later dropped, cracked, and ultimately lost. I loved that iPod nano so much! I was so disappointed when I lost it and I paid full price to replace it with a graphite 6G iPod nano 16 GB. Of course, these days I don't really listen to music on the go so it's just collecting dust in my desk. :(

I bought the first generation iPad mini in black upon release in 2012, but I decided I didn't use it enough to justify the expense and I returned it. I expected to upgrade to the eventual Retina model, but I never did...

I switched to Windows Phone in 2013. I was disheartened by the unveiling of iOS 7 and started to lose my enthusiasm for Apple's newer products. I picked up a fifth generation iPod touch with the intention of keeping it on iOS 6 forever, but the screen got damaged and it got replaced by AppleCare with an iOS 7 model. I bought a refurbished fourth generation iPod touch 16 GB later on since it's one of the few devices that can run iOS 6 but not any later versions. I also bought a refurbished iPod mini, this time with LTE (and still with iOS 6!) which I continue to use. I briefly owned an iPhone 4 after I lost my Windows Phone, but I gave it away after I bought a new phone.

Here's my full list of products. Unless noted, I still own the device:

iPod mini (2nd generation) - green
iPod nano (1st generation)- white^
iPod nano (6th generation) - silver*
iPod nano (6th generation) - graphite
iPod (5.5 generation) - black*
iPod touch (1st generation)
iPod touch (3rd generation)
iPod touch (4th generation)
iPod touch (5th generation) - black/slate
iPad mini (1st generation) - black
iPhone 3GS - black
iPhone 4 - black^
iPhone 4S - black^
MacBook (late 2009)
MacBook Air (mid 2012)

^ = gave away
* = lost

There are still a few products on my wishlist as well:

iPhone - either new or 4 GB (a new 4 GB would be ideal, but expensive and hard to find)
iPhone 5 - black/slate or white/silver, running iOS 6
iPod touch (fifth generation) - black/slate or white/silver running iOS 6
 
1st generation nano

My first device was the 1st generation nano. The nano was very popular in high school. Couple of years later I got the 2nd generation iPod Touch, then 5g iPod Touch, 13" Macbook Pro early 2011, 2nd generation iPad mini with retina and today iPhone 6.
 
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