[HN Gopher] Urban Outfitters is selling 'vintage retro' iPods
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Urban Outfitters is selling 'vintage retro' iPods
Author : rmason
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-10-27 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.inquirer.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.inquirer.com)
| mrandish wrote:
| Cool... but not as cool as my vintage retro Zune!
| hyggetrold wrote:
| You took me back: https://www.penny-
| arcade.com/comic/2007/01/03/your-heart-is-...
| flashback2199 wrote:
| Mmm, no.
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| Refurbished with new batteries. No matter what you think about
| "trends" - this is better than them ending up in landfill.
| JohnFen wrote:
| Oh, it's an unambiguous good. It's just really weird to call
| them "vintage".
| knodi123 wrote:
| Well, it IS 20 years old.... A walkman would have been retro in
| 2001, and it would have been the same age as the ipod is now....
| epcoa wrote:
| No it wouldn't have. They sold walkmans new in the US until
| 2004 and Japan 2010. Cassettes were not retro tech in the early
| 2000s, especially among the poor. And for recording, cassettes
| and microcasettes were still common then, digital voice
| recorders were just starting to supplant them.
|
| Walkmans and discmans had longer lives.
| SuperNinKenDo wrote:
| This seems great. I Was thinking about pulling mine out and
| seeing if I could get the battery refurbished. The experience of
| syncing these with iTunes was fantastic for podcasts.
|
| Unfortunately I remembered that iTunes syncing doesn't work when
| it's running on Wine, and given how old the product is, I doubt
| it ever will now. So, that's a shame.
|
| Maybe ReactOS one day.
| skykooler wrote:
| I wonder if Floola still works? It was great for managing iPods
| on Linux back in the day.
| windowsrookie wrote:
| Apple is still updating iTunes for Windows. You could certainly
| run it in a VM if you wanted to.
|
| iPod batteries are readily available on ebay and AliExpress.
| You can also replace the Hard drive with MicroSD cards using
| this adapter.
|
| https://www.iflash.xyz/store/iflash-quad/
| MDWolinski wrote:
| I didn't think the current OSs supported these to enable song
| loading.
| windowsrookie wrote:
| Apple is still updating iTunes for Windows. And iPod syncing is
| built into Finder now on MacOS.
|
| https://badcoffee.club/using-an-ipod-classic-in-2023/
| masswerk wrote:
| I found this rather ironic:
|
| > Market research shows younger generations are pivoting to
| analog devices, like wired headphones and CDs.
|
| (Well, an iPod is as analog as a CD and it does feature wired
| headphones, as well. So all marks checked?)
| morninglight wrote:
| Several years ago, new KitKat phones were being dumped at the
| nearby dollar store for $9 each. I bought 3 - One for me and 2
| for the kids. We have never used them as phones, but they are
| great as mp3 players. I run with mine about an hour each day.
| Since it's in airplane mode, the original battery is like new.
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