Subj : Bye Bye iPod
To   : Ennev
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 10 2022 17:13:30

  Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Ennev to All on Tue May 10 2022 06:54 pm

 En> https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/

 En> We will say what we want, but Apple would have been dead and gone without
 En> that product. The translucent iMac brought them back, but iPod ensured the
 En> cash flow that paved the way for iPhone.

 En> I had an mp3 player before getting an iPod eventually and never looked
 En> back. They nailed the coffin on other players with the intuitive interface
 En> with the scroll wheel. Just sad that it was also a vanity product. You
 En> didn't have white earphones with the iconic white wires. What was wrong
 En> with you? 

 En> What do you think?

They say "while supplies last", like it's a limited edition or something..  Did Apple decide to stop making their iPod Touch?

Before the iPod came out, I remember seeing the Diamond Rio MP3 player in stores.  I didn't own one, but it seemed like it would have been easy enough to use.  Like many things, Apple comes out with their own version and suddenly a lot of people want theirs.

In 2001-2002, I did have an MP3 player, but it was a different brand.  It used CompactFlash cards, and I think the biggest card I had for it was 128 megabytes.  I found it fairly easy to use.  Later I did have a few Apple iPods, but mainly because they had a lot more storage than the previous MP3 players I had.

Apple's iPods were easy to use, but I always found it weird that so many people would go crazy for their products and line up to buy them when they came out.

Nightfox

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