Apple Kills the iPod

RIP iPod. It was a hell of a experience.

Apple right this moment introduced that provides for the iPod Touch, the final remaining iPod, would solely be out there whereas provides final, marking the tip of a 20-year period for the devoted transportable music participant.

For many, the iPod was the gateway to digital music. But in the identical method that it helped kill the CD, the iPod’s days grew to become numbered the second Steve Jobs stepped on stage in 2007 to disclose the iPhone, which the Apple co-founder described as a mix of a “widescreen iPod with touch controls,” a cell phone, and an web communicator.

When it was first revealed by Jobs in 2001, the unique iPod was described as a transportable onerous drive with CD-quality music that allow you to buy songs at a low value and retailer them in your pocket. It’s onerous to make that sound revolutionary in right this moment’s world, nevertheless it was groundbreaking at a time when folks have been carrying round CD gamers, altering out discs to go from one album to a different.

“With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go,” Jobs stated. “With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.”

The iPod went by numerous iterations, giving prospects extra transportable choices for utilizing on a run or on the health club, but in addition bigger ones with huge screens (for the time) for simpler navigation. With every passing yr, Apple whittled down its choices by killing off the iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Mini. For the previous few years, all that remained was the iPod contact. Now, it too will meet its finish.

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A tool I nonetheless maintain near my coronary heart is a third Gen Nano, a stumpy rectangle with a tiny show and that signature white dial. I keep in mind blowing my eardrums out listening with these horrible included earbuds to emo bands like Circa Survive, Death Cab for Cutie, or Taking Back Sunday. Hell, I nonetheless hearken to among the artists I found whereas flipping by iTunes. We all have our favourite iPods. For my colleague Andrew Liszewski, it’s the screen-less iPod Shuffle, for its fundamental design and easy performance.

If you need to personal the present final surviving iPod, the iPod contact continues to be out there for $199 on Apple’s website. Otherwise, let’s pour out some drinks on the iPod’s wake and chat about our iPod reminiscences.