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The iPod Shuffle with buttons. The original iPod Touch was just 8mm thick and weighed 120g. Much like, in some sense, the original iPod was, too. In the latter years of the iPhone era, the iPod Touch wasn’t exactly updated on a regular schedule. A brief moment later I came to my senses and recognized it for what it actually was: an iPod Touch. I was standing around, waiting for the doors to open for the keynote hall, looking for friends to say hello to. I was hanging around with M.G. Siegler that day — Siegler was then covering Apple for TechCrunch — and we were among the first to enter the hands-on area. The 7th-generation iPod Touch went on sale in May 2019; the previous model arrived in 2015. The original iPhone was 11.6mm thick and weighed 135g. Back in the Jobs era, Apple would post things to the “Hot News” page of apple.com and when it was no longer hot or news, it would just disappear. It was, basically, spec-for- spec an iPhone without the phone. “Music has always been part of our core at Apple, and bringing it to hundreds of millions of users in the way iPod did impacted more than just the music industry — it also redefined how music is discovered, listened to, and shared,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Today, the spirit of iPod lives on.

After nearly 22 years, Apple is stopping production of the devices that changed consumer electronics and led to the creation of the iPhone.

The iPhone continued to draw on the blend of software and services that made the iPod succeed. Still, Mr. Jobs pushed for Apple to make the iPod smaller and more powerful. At the time, a service called Napster was tormenting the music industry, making it possible for people to share any song with anyone around the world for free. Perhaps the iPod’s most important contribution was its role as a catalyst for the creation of the iPhone. As mobile phone makers began introducing devices that could play music, Apple executives worried about being leapfrogged by better technology. In essence, it made possible a Sony Walkman-size digital player with a capacity multitudes greater than anything that existed in the market. It powered Mr. Jobs’s vision for how people would purchase music in the digital age. In the late 1990s, the first digital music players were beginning to appear. It also demonstrated how the company was seldom first to market with a new product but often triumphed. The days of buying and owning 99-cent songs on an iPod largely gave way to monthly subscription offerings that provide access to broader catalogs of music. Since introducing the iPod in 2001, Apple has sold an estimated 450 million of them, according to Loup Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in tech research. The iPod began with a modest goal: Let’s create a music product that makes people want to buy more Macintosh computers. It exploded in popularity in the years that followed, creating what became known as the iPod generation.

The iPod Touch will still be available for purchase online and at Apple Store locations “while supplies last.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs displays the iPod Mini ...

said another Twitter user, who linked to images of the iPod over time. With an internet connection, the latest iPod Touch can send iMessages and make FaceTime calls. It launched the iPod Touch, which looked like an iPhone, in 2007.

Apple will sell its remaining stock of Mp3 players and kiss the age of the iPod goodbye. But a new generation of tech aficionados is working to prolong the ...

Rather than venture into the calculated slickness of an Apple store, Shipinski bought their first iPods in a thrift store in 2019 and eventually decided to crack open the newer one for fun. We’re going to play your music, and we’re going to play it really d--- well.’ ” And it was the product that totally transformed Apple, laid the groundwork for the iPhone and kick-started massive growth.” But it was arguably the first iPod, unveiled in October 2001, that set a revived Apple down a different path — one that cemented its place in people’s pockets, not just on their desks. After a string of not-quite-right leaders, prodigal CEO Steve Jobs returned to the company and shook up its computer lineup with a slew of cheap, colorful iMacs in 1998. But even though iPods were eventually (and completely) overshadowed by the iPhone, it’s hard to understate the impact they had on the company — and the people who used them.

Apple has stopped production of the iPod Touch, effectively killing off the iconic mp3 player.

That being said, a new iPod with a click wheel and a nice little screen and no way to access Twitter would be extremely cool, but there are still companies putting out cheap (and very much not cheap) mp3 players… That won’t be the case forever, though, so if you might want to grab one while you can before the eventual iPod Touch nostalgia kicks in (the hipsters will say that U2’s “Vertigo” just sounds better on an iPod Touch, even though we associate that song with a much older iPod generation, so it doesn’t really make sense to reference it here). The good iPods, the ones with a click wheel and no way to access Twitter, have been gone for a long time.

Of course, back in 2001, when the first iPod launched, it was all about freedom. Just as the Sony Walkman had freed us before so we could take our music with us ...

While the iPod touch does most of the things an iPhone can, it’s hard to get away from the idea that came with its launch, that it is all about music. It’s fair to say that having an iPod equivalent in every iPhone from the first up until the iPhone 13 Pro Max, made a separate device in your pocket less important. The Apple iPod wasn’t the first digital player but it was the best-looking, the coolest and by far the easiest to use. But the big change came when Spotify arrived and meant you could stream music. No longer did we have to listen to the 10 songs on a retail cassette or CD, or twice that on a home-crafted mix tape. Just take a look at the image at the top of this post: the pleasantly tactile clickwheel, the shiny finish, even the onscreen font all have a gorgeous, classic look.

Apple grew into the behemoth it is today thanks to the iPhone. But much of the momentum and ideas it had that helped it create the smartphone came from its ...

As iPhone sales took off like a rocket, fewer and fewer people bought iPods. In 2010, the iPad (which Apple dreamed up as a touchscreen device before it came up with the idea for the iPhone) was introduced. The Touch was also the last easily pocketable device that Apple sold with (say it with me now) a headphone jack. That type of success doesn’t come down to any one factor; it happens thanks to a decade-plus-long series of good decisions and solid marketing. The iPod’s importance at Apple continued to diminish over the next decade. At the time, those would’ve been second-gen Shuffles, first and second-gen iPod Touches, fourth-gen Nanos, and the iPod Classic. It had launched the iTunes Music Store in 2003 as a way to purchase digital music for your then-new third-gen iPod. And Apple started selling movies on iTunes in 2006 as it built out its infrastructure for the age of portable media consumption. Starting at $199 for a 32GB model, it was the cheapest iOS device you could buy new from Apple. That honor now falls to the entry-level iPad, which starts at $329 for a 64GB model. Jobs used that as a selling point when introducing it, saying that iPod owners would already know how to set up their phone and would likely have their data already in iTunes. And after you set the phone up, you’d see an app called iPod on it — its icon depicting a classic scrollwheel-adorned device. This week, Apple announced that it’s discontinuing the iPod Touch, its last product with the “iPod” name. By the time it launched in 2008, Apple already had half a decade of experience building and maintaining a digital storefront. But while the original iMac stabilized Apple as a company, Apple was still a niche player when it came to the overall consumer electronics market. In 2002, Apple sold around 400,000 iPods, according to Statista. By 2006, Apple was selling 39 million of them a year.

A long, long time ago before the iPod, MP3 players were badly designed devices with insufficient storage. The market was ripe for a change, and Steve Jobs, ...

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Apple announced Tuesday that the iPod Touch will join the Classic, Mini, Nano, and Shuffle in the iPod graveyard.

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It's no surprise that Apple is finally dropping the iPod Touch from its lineup. The device last saw an update in 2019, and estimated sales compared to the ...

While the rise and fall of the iPod is a fascinating story, the technical progress that it represents is also quite amazing. But all things must come to an end, and with the continued meteoric rise of the iPhone and the change from playing stored music to cloud-based streaming, it was inevitable that the iPod line would eventually come to an end. It's no surprise that Apple is finally dropping the iPod Touch from its lineup.

A day after announcing the iPod touch would remain on sale only while stocks last, the 256GB versions of every color model have already sold out.

It also, though, means that the lowest cost iOS device is now the iPhone SE, which at $429, is over $200 more expensive than the base iPod touch was. At time of writing, it is no longer possible to buy a 256GB iPod touch in any of its six different colors. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content.

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On Apple's website, the 256GB iPod touch is sold out in every color. However, there are still options available for the 32GB and 128GB models. The 128GB is ...

Walmart is where you’ll find some of the best prices for an iPod touch. For 128GB, you can still buy a Blue and a Space Gray. Please note that the Space Gray options are a bit more expensive than the other colors at Best Buy. Additionally, all of the 256GB models are out of stock. However, there are still options available for the 32GB and 128GB models.

Apple today announced that it is officially discontinuing the iPod touch, an out of date accessory that has been replaced by other devices like the...

It is available in Pink, (PRODUCT)RED, Space Gray, Silver, Gold, and Blue. Apple introduced the first iPod 21 years ago in October 2001, and at the time, it was a revolutionary music device that put thousands of songs in the pockets of Apple fans. The iPod touch is the last remaining device in the iPod lineup, and it has not been updated since May 2019, three years ago.