OMG IS THERE NO GOD????!!!!!!
My name is Lynne and I am a musical hoarder. How else am I going to carry around my 22,000+ songs unless I have my Ipod Classic 160g player. They cannot cancel this - this is just WRONG WRONG WRONG. Why do these people make baby jesus cry
Apple says a silent goodbye to iPod classic
The original iPod music player debuted 13 years ago, in October 2001. It remained one of Apple's core product categories over the years, despite declining sales and a world of listeners increasingly more reliant on streaming subscription services. Now, as Apple moves into larger-screen smartphones and wearable devices for our wrists with the unveiling of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Tuesday, a standalone MP3 player has become too antiquated to keep alive.
When Apple's online store came back online this afternoon at around 12:00 p.m. PT, the iPod classic -- the company's last touchscreen-less music player that first debuted in 2007 -- was gone.
It's no surprise that Apple bid farewell to its sixth generation iPod. The device eventually held as much as 160GB of music and accounted for a healthy chunk of the 54.83 million iPod units shipped at the division's sales peak in 2009. Yet those numbers began steadily sliding downward as Apple's iPhone and competing Android smartphones sales begin to eat into the MP3 market, while new device form factors like the iPad tablet carved out a new product niche.
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I never owned a shuffle. I liked to have all my music with me. I use to lug around two 200 CD case with me in my car. I'd go to flea markets and buy CDs there - rarely would I buy new stuff. So when they came out with an iPod Classic it was like 'Wow I can carry arond all my music in this tiny little thing - woohoo!!!'
I've got files and software from the 'seventies that are just one, two, or three clicks away from my desktop.
My music hoard, all of it legal, is there too.
So long as general purpose computing machines are legal I'll probably be okay.
Seems odd that Apple is saying "goodbye," unless they want people to buy new crap. What possible burden is it to continue support for older devices? Presumably the old systems are stable after all this time.
Hell, I run old BSD, Atari 800, and MSDOS software without any glitches. Even my old Macs, dusty with dead hard drives and bad capacitors in my garage, still live on in emulation. Whenever I upgrade to a more powerful computer I bring my entire computing past with me.
Sigh. Don't mind me. I still watch old videocassette movies sometimes. They're only fifty cents or a dollar at the thrift stores, plus those I bought new. And I still have crates of vinyl and other sorts of records I play on an old 'sixties university library "record player." (Tubes are awesome!) 16, 33 1/3, 45, and 78. Turn the knob, and don't forget to flip the needle for the 78s.
