Happy eighth Birthday , iPod — you do n’t look a daylight over … Aww , who am I kid ? You look older .
We ’ve told this storyplenty of times before , but on the iPod ’s eighth birthday , I think it ’s time to think about administering the Last Rites . Three long time ago , Charlie White write a pieceabout everything that was amiss with the iPod , and most everything that could be solved was . From 2006 : There ’s no FM , too many scratches , short shelling life , annoying DRM , janky iTunes , no Bluetooth , no widescreen , no Wi - Fi . Besides , it ’s a stealer magnet and his kid want a new one every six calendar month .
https://gizmodo.com/the-portable-media-player-is-dead-long-live-the-por-5360197
So many of these problems were fixed , but is that proficient news ? Yes , for us , but not for the iPod .
Because the problems were n’t fix by the release of the complete iPod , but a whole fresh species : The iPhone and its non - telephone set - yttrium sidekick , the misnamed iPod Touch . ( There ’s a dear reason why many the great unwashed prefer to call it an iTouch . ) Apple themselves expects the iPod ’s trajectory tofall as iPhone sales rocket higher . And it ’s not because of these little fixes as much as the fact that while the iPhone and iPod Touch apps collections get bigger and more useful , there ’s been a quick break from the even iPod as a consolation prize in a time where if you do n’t have a meshwork link pocket computer , you ’ve got a toy . A toy dog that is an island . Or something .
https://gizmodo.com/apple-made-a-lot-of-money-as-traditional-ipods-march-5319722
So yep , iPod , you ’re 8 , your gross sales arein the bathroom , your shrinking click - wheel has gonefrom genius to nuisance , your very existencerobbed the Touchof a camera it deserves , and apparentlynobody deal about operose drive players anymore , no matter how much they can hold .
https://gizmodo.com/apple-crushes-recession-by-selling-more-macs-and-iphone-5385183
You ’ll make it to year 10 and 11 , and maybe beyond that . But you ’ll never be as important as you were . And so if you went away tomorrow we ’d swipe a touch screen in salutation but without much remorse . [ iPods on Gizmodo ]
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