Pages

September 9, 2014

The iPod Classic Is Dead

My friends, I come to you with sad news. Our old friend, the iPod classic, is no more. Apple unceremoniously removed the much-beloved media player from its iPod product page, leaving just the shuffle, nano, and touch to carry the iPod standard.

This was years in the making. The click wheel-enabled iPod was just no longer relevant in the day of high capacity flash storage and streaming music services. Sure, still is certain use cases where the high-capacity memory still makes sense, but for the most part, it was time for the iPod classic to be put down.

But let’s remember the iPod classic during its heyday – when it was displayed with silhouettes using white earbuds dancing in front of vibrant backgrounds. This was the model that started it all.

IMAGE BY Flickr USER Elvert Barnes UNDER CC by-SA 2.0 LICENSE

No comments:

Post a Comment