I honestly did not know they still sold iPods. Or not many, anyway. Everyone I ever knew that had an iPod now uses their phone as their music devices. That even includes those of us who leapfrogged the iPod.
Who buys them any more?
When will we have watchpods - - music, time, video............?
I got my first iPod this past Christmas. I’ve had mp3 players for almost 10 years, but never one by Apple. I’ve been pretty happy with it - I even upgraded my car stereo to add a USB port, which I really like.
I can’t see myself owning an iPhone until the price for the service comes down. I have an el cheapo phone and prepaid service (Net10) that costs me $15 a month.
I might switch service if I can find a family plan that fits. (We have 3 phones, so the total we pay is $45. Any suggestions?)
I am one with a separate phone, ipod touch and video camera. I prefer dedicated devices.
“Who buys them any more?”
Me! Don’t got no stinkin’ iPhone. I’m too old to browse the ‘net with such a small screen. And my thumbs are as precise as sledgehammers when I try to text! But I can leave the iPod plugged into the console of my climate destroying SUV so I have tunes when I’m killing icebergs.
I just don’t get it.
I despise the “does all” phone.
I guess I must be old.
I want my phone to be a phone, have the ability to get “text messages” (Like an old pager used to do- handy for use when an answering service is taking your after hours calls) and tell me what time it is.
For all the other stuff I want I use an Ipod Nano 5th gen.
The thing is pretty doggone impressive. It weighs nothing, is so thin it is nearly two dimensional and yet it all of this stuff!
I can stuff a bunch of podcasts on it as well as language lessons, or any esoteric weird stuff I can think of (All thanks to the podcasts and IPOD University in the Ipod store) as well as a couple of Top Gear (The British version) episodes to watch while I have lunch.
If I need to record a conversation it can do that, and no one is the wiser if stealth is required. It even can take fairly decent videos.
It even makes a handy audio source when troubleshooting or installing commercial sound installations, amplifiers and jukeboxes!
Amazing and astounding capabilities in such a tiny and reasonably priced device.
The best part is, it doesn’t have a damn phone in it!
I would hate to see the Ipod go away, but I think they ruined the Nano when they made it a tiny little touchscreen device and took out the camera and shrunk the display.
The main market for the iPod Classic is DJs and other folks who need a massive music library at their fingertips. I see a lot of DJs with an iPod, or maybe two, in place of the crates of discs they used to lug around. A niche market, to be sure; and with iCloud allowing you to download albums on the fly, the niche is getting smaller.
I have a third-generation iPod Nano that I keep hooked to the stereo when I don't want my iPhone tied down (because I'm using it for stuff). As AirPlay gear gets more common, that niche use is shrinking, too.
Then there are all the folks who can't afford or don't want smart phones. We folks who are immersed in technology all day tend to forget that free-with-contract phones or $10 burners are still a huge hunk of the market. The trend is away from single-purpose music players, but there's enough of a niche to support them for now; and for the foreseeable future, there will still be a niche for something like an iPod Shuffle, for kids who might break things or for going someplace where you don't want to take an expensive device.
I bought an Ipod shuffle less than a month ago, replacing one I have had for almost 4 years. I use it to listen to music when I go for a run. The smaller the better, I don’t want to carry a larger device, so the shuffle is an ideal for that specific purpose (for me, anyway).