The Apple iPod is Dead to Me

Will it be replace by another apple device or can a $10K iphone now do it all???

what is gonna replace it?

I loved my iPod Touch. It did almost everything an iPhone does, except without any phone in it. But you could also get a Google phone number or some other VOIP service, and essentially you almost have an iPhone. Unfortunately mine was stolen out of my car.

Oh, no. What will we inherit?

What's on the ipod's ipod?

The iPod Touch looked like and was about the same size of a regular iPhone. The whole point of it was to be a small compact device for your music. I still have a Nano, which I love. I have a huge library that takes up too much memory on my regular phone, plus it never seems to sync up songs you originally uploaded from your CD collection. Apple always fucks things up.

I also had a Nano. It's probably dead from sitting unused for so long.

so are they coming out with something new?

R8, the new thing is you don't own the music you purchase, you rent it.

so maybe use my mini ipod for music?

Use your Apple Watch, r10. Works great with some AirPod Pros for a completely wireless music experience, the kind you could only dream about when the iPod first debuted.

You never "own" someone else's music. Whoever created it owns all the rights to it, unless they sold or gave the rights to someone else. They determine what happens to it and how it is used, until the day many years later when the copyright expires and it becomes public domain.

If you "buy" a copy of some music, such as a recording, you don't own the rights to it. The copyright owner still owns the rights to it. All you have done was bought a license for your personal listening of it.

You don't have the right to make another copy, to sell a copy, or to use it in a public performance. Those rights are still owned by the copyright holder. This has always been true.

Yeah but you didn’t have to worry about the record company taking your CDs or tapes away, R12. That copy was essentially your property. Now you don’t even own a copy.

I still use my iPod classic, but I had to get a reconditioned one because the memory wasn't big enough.

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[quote] Now you don’t even own a copy.

You can still buy a copy if you want one, gramps.

[quote] what is gonna replace it?

The iPhone.

the 256gb version in all colors has already sold out on apple website and bestbuy.

[QUOTE] You can still buy a copy if you want one, gramps.

But nobody’s buying them R16, and I’m probably younger than you, you smug motherfucker.

I refuse to listen to music on my phone or tablet. I have a sony walkman. it's maybe 5 years old but flawless.

I still have my Close 'n Play. Is it worth thousands, too?

R20, I have a sony walkman too.

I also have 2 ipod touch. One of them is really old and the battery runs out in like 20 min.

I have a red enamel Sony Walkman. It is a model what can collapse on itself smaller than a cassette tape. You have to extend the body first to use it. Very tiny, amazing machine. My dad brought it back from a business trip to Japan and it was a kind of luxurious gift for him to give to me. I think these things were quite expensive back then. Not junk.

My father played music with a cactus needle touching a revolving black disc.

He told me the disc was called "Shellac" which is something made from female Indian Lac Beetles.

can you still store stuff from apple stores on it?

So I tried reviving my old “dial” iPod only to discover that although all my purchased music transfers easily into it- you cannot download any Apple Music Subscription media. Only Apple devices that are connected directly to the internet like the very latest version of iPod, IPhone and IPad can download this kind of media. There’s no easy workaround- aside from purchasing hundreds of dollars of music.

Also I use Spotify and YouTube Music interchangeably, so an old IPod is a no go.

This makes me feel very old because I remember when the iPod was the *thing* to have & I really wanted one but they were initially too expensive; I still own an iPod Nano that will still works, but doesn't hold much of a charge and it makes me sad to feel like it's now the equivalent of owning a Victrola