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                  Apple Officially Discontinues the iPod touch

   Josh Centers

   Earlier this year, we asked, '[1]Has Apple Abandoned the iPod touch?'
   (22 February 2022). It turns out the answer is yes.

   In an Apple Newsroom post titled '[2]The music lives on,' Apple
   emphasized the many ways you can listen to music using the company's
   devices and its Apple Music service. If you didn't read carefully, you
   might have missed the death knell in the subtitle and clarified at the
   end:

     Customers can purchase [3]iPod touch through [4]apple.com, Apple
     Store locations, and Apple Authorized Resellers while supplies last.

   If you want an iPod touch for some reason, it's now or never. However,
   at this point, the iPod touch is so outdated that the main reason to
   buy one may be for nostalgic reasons'though it still makes a good
   dedicated music player. A base model iPad or even a used iPhone would
   be a better value.

   When Apple first released the original iPod over 20 years ago, on 23
   October 2001, it was a revolutionary product, even if [5]everyone
   didn't see it at first. As Jeff Carlson noted at the time in '[6]iPod
   Makes Music More Attractive' (29 October 2001), there was reason to
   think the iPod could go either way. The iMac had been a market-changing
   success, while the Power Mac G4 Cube was a commercial failure despite
   having a novel industrial design that earned its own niche of fans.

   But Apple is seldom nostalgic, and the core capabilities of the early
   iPods have long been met and exceeded by the iPhone, iPad, and even the
   Apple Watch. The last surviving member of the line, the iPod touch,
   hasn't brought much to the party for years. While it's sad to see the
   iPod touch go and the curtain come down on the iPod line, its time had
   come.

   We'll leave you and the iPod with a peek at what could have been. Tony
   Fadell, often credited as the father of the iPod, recently [7]gave
   TechCrunch a look at an iPhone prototype that was much closer to the
   clickwheel iPod than the iPhone we know today:

     To mark the release of his new book, [8]@tfadell gave us a peek at
     what's been taking up space in his garage all these years --
     including this wild iPod/iPhone hybrid concept device.
     [9]https://t.co/LOsakpQs2i [10]pic.twitter.com/8s0akWrgOe

     -- Brian Heater (@bheater) [11]May 6, 2022

References

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   1. https://tidbits.com/2022/02/22/has-apple-abandoned-the-ipod-touch/
   2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/
   3. https://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
   4. https://www.apple.com/
   5. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod
   6. https://tidbits.com/2001/10/29/ipod-makes-music-more-attractive/
   7. https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/05/tony-fadell-cleans-out-his-garage/
   8. https://twitter.com/tfadell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   9. https://t.co/LOsakpQs2i
  10. https://t.co/8s0akWrgOe
  11. https://twitter.com/bheater/status/1522369778106650624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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