I loved my MiniDisc, but it didn't solve the problem of carrying lots of media with you. Despite it's small size, the disks were as, if not more bulky than the CDs they replaced. The real advantage was the ability to make digital mixtapes (albeit recorded in real-time from analogue sources on the early models). Needless to say I bought an iPod on day 1.
@zapod20 I've got 8 Beatles albums on one standard MiniDisc in LP Mode. The 1GB Hi-MD can store even more than that and copy faster than real-time via USB and SonicStage on PC/Hi-MD Music Transfer on the Mac! Basically a mobile recording studio/MP3 player and digital mix tape machine all in one!
I can still remember, in the pre-iPod Walkman era, the fashion was to do almost everything to conceal the headphone wires but when the iPod came out showing the white wires _were_ almost like a status symbol.
Yup, and yet they sounded mid. I was expecting to be blown away by the sound quality when I first put them on like, damn these are the coveted ipod headphones?
That’s from the Simpson’s apple episode. Lisa couldn’t afford an iPhone so she just bought some white earphones. They were called iPhonies 😂 the company was called Mapple and was led by a guy named Steve Mobs and lived in an underwater lair
I remember back in the late 90s, a friend had a portable CD player that could also play the MP3 files on a data CD, that held hundreds of songs per disk. My mind was blown.
I bought one of these and loved it. They were even more skip-proof than regular discmans because the files were way smaller so more ‘song’ could be held in the buffer
Same here. I was walking to elementary school with a Walkman, then drove to high school with a discman, then upgraded to MP3 discman, after witnessing it at a friend's place. Total game changer! When MP3 Players became widely available (I never had the money for an iPod), I was so happy. I'm still using one to this day, but will probably switch to full time streaming soon. What a ride.
Omg that brings back memories of burning my first cd with mp3s from lime wire or Napster and having it work on my round cd player. Lol and then edit the tracks so they showed up on the display was sweet.
Hahaha I remember my mp3 disc player. Such an awesome unit. It had like 13s anti-skip so could survive the bouncy school bus ride without missing a beat. I still remember my main mix CD. For some reason I put Linkin Park (which was my favourite because I was an edgy 13 year old with depression) right in the middle so always ended up having to skip to track 54 before I could play it.
0:00: 🔑 The original iPod was designed and manufactured in a few months and credited to an obscure man named Ken Kramer. 3:12: 🎵 The rise of digital music and the MP3 format disrupted the music industry, leading to the development of portable MP3 players. 6:31: 💽 Apple developed the iPod with a small form factor and high capacity hard drive, using the iconic mechanical scroll wheel for easy navigation. 9:29: 💽 The iPod was developed by a team led by Fidel, using components from various companies. It had a minimalist design and became a status symbol. 12:41: 🎵 Apple's iPod revolutionized the music industry, selling over 400 million units and paving the way for the iPhone. Recap by Tammy AI
I remember saving up for the iPod Nano 3rd Gen as a kid. It wasn't much but for that brief moment, I felt like the coolest kid on the block who didn't have an iPhone and immediately loaded it with all the songs I got off of Limewire.
Thanks for this comment. I remember my 16th birthday gift was an iPod, I really enjoyed using that device, especially playing Klondike on it. I remember buying albums burning them to my laptop and syncing them on iTunes. There was no greater feeling than just taking a long stroll and listening to music.
I had both the classic 80GB unfortunately dropped it and was a goner. My ipod nano was a beast, had music and paired with the nike sensor I could log my runs, then sync the data with my pc to the Nike website. I miss those days. This was pre smart phones, having the ability to record runs digitally was mind blowing for me.
I am one of those people that collects iPods and still uses them. I got a bit surprised by the small resurgence they've had in the last couple of years. They're still great little devices, especially the classic ones, with a few upgrades.
Within the last 5 years I’ve been slowly collecting a few, their accessories and cases. Models I’ve always wanted but didn’t have the means to afford them in my teens.
I still believe an iPod Classic with an expanded battery because of the extra space given by a microSD storage adapter to replace the tiny hdd is one of the best things. Rockbox optional.
I swear to god ColdFusion brings out the best videos. By now we all have close to 1000 ColdFusion videos in our pockets like how Steve Jobs said we would have 1000 songs with the Ipod. It's ironic saying this as I like Android.
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The iPod had 5gb of storage. Really that was amazing. There were netbooks 10 years later that only had 4gb. And my current $1500 iPhone only has 256gb. That’s not much of a jump in 20 years. Yes there is a massive speed improvement with tiny storage though.
Speak for yourself my Motorola android has 256 gigs then I added a 512gig SD........between my phone📱and removable storage I have over 10,000 songs because I hate streaming.
I still have my iPod 6th generation, and it still boots and works. It was a gift from my daugther. I never thought ColdFusion would take me down to nostalgia lane so much one day :) Yet another great CF video, thanks!
Never owned one of these, but remember when MP3s were getting lots of attention. In the late 90s one person in my circle took some old PC parts and a DC to AC inverter and ran an old DOS machine in the trunk of his car. Every time the car powered up, the PC would boot up and the autoexec.bat would start MP3 playing. I think he had a 10GB or more of HDD. Long before the iPhone I had a flip phone with a micrSD card slot that played MP3s and had dual speaker as well as a headphone jack. It also had a camera and limited apps. I could get to my bank account in text on a very small screen.
One correction: MP3 format does introduce significant losses in fidelity of the original music. It was very compact, but to state that it didn't affect quality is just not correct.
Sidebar, Apple computers had to get permission at the beginning to use the Apple name, at that time already owned by Apple Music formed by the Beatles. They were given permission on the condition that they never go into the music business. When they started iTunes, they had to negotiate again for their name, they could have potentially lost the use of the name Apple as a result.
I was a tween when iPods came out. They were easily the most popular device as a kid since the game boy color. By the time the second gen nano came out 90% of my friends and classmates had an iPod. They were truly integral to mid 2000s life.
For my friends and I in middle school, the iPod was like a Nintendo Switch, as parents were reluctant on giving their kids expensive smartphones. We played games in the hall- and stairways. Fun times with the iPod.
I REALLY ABSOLUTELY miss that anticipation of what they were going to do with the next iPod!! My first one was the 30GB iPod Video for Christmas 2005!!! I felt like the man because not a lot of people had that new iPod at the time! Now days with Apple Music, Apple ruined the way iTunes would allow you to customize your playlists individually instead of just syncing all of it like now. I absolutely hate that they did this to the playlist feature. Sometimes my artwork doesn’t show on one device and sometimes my playlists get duplicated and this infuriates me because they could have just easily made Apple Music for only Music and playlists like iTunes and moved the iPhone updaters to finder. I know they could have kept the playlist features the same. If it aint broke don’t fix it!! This time they broke it instead of fixing it!! I understand why they had to separate the iTunes store but I hate that Apple Music and Finder are required to keep my iPod running with music and playlists and I refuse to keep a separate mac just for iTunes of old!! 😑
This video made me nostalgic, CD, MP3 and memories of the user experience with the original iPod, and of course the memory of the vibe of the old internet!
i remember sony, samsung and other companies making great mp3 players with drag and drop music folders that were cheap, had good storage ability for large playlists and had a great sound quality, but were a pain in the ass to use sometimes if you were already sucked into the apple ecosystem and didnt own a pc which was more suited to the (not always essential) software involved in said devices
Still got a 4rd gen iPod (2004) that works - black/white LCD screen and mechanical hard drive. Great machine and quite good audio quality, especially for the time. Good to hear the development story all in one spot. Now if only Apple could continue to innovate like this instead of taking away features we actually use like 3.5mm audio jacks...
I'm not an Apple fan boy by any means, but honestly, I'm glad Apple pushed wireless earbuds onto the market. One of the most annoying things was having to deal with tangled earphone wires and if wireless earbuds can (and they do) provide the same quality sound, then I'm all for it. 3.5 mm jack would barely ever be used by people who have wireless earbuds. I say this as someone who was initially very critical of removing the jack in the first place. If you're going to complain about anything, it should be repaireability and easily replaceable batteries. The latter is particularly important given iPhones tend to last very long, and often, their batteries are the bottleneck in longevity. Sadly, that trend was there from the beginning with Apple.
Baked into iTunes for Windows came QuickTime back to the PC. The war between Microsoft and Apple over video playback is probably worth an extra episode.
I remember all of Apple's history. I'm roughly the age of Steve Jobs (as he would be, if he was still alive), and even used a friend's Apple II, when it was still a new product. It was the iMac, that put Apple back into the "black", but if they just stayed there, then they would just be one of many, and would eventually go belly up. The iPod did differentiate Apple, as it was a unique product. I do remember the Diamond Rio, and it was only selling in the $50 to $70 range around the time the iPod came out. At the time, I thought its storage capacity was adequate, as we were use to less than a hours worth of songs. No one needed to store, your whole music collection. So we thought. The good thing of the iPod was that it could store any type of file, and later versions had larger storage and could play video. I made a power bank (before power banks were a thing) for a friend, so he could watch whole movies on his iPod on long plane flights. Playing a video, an iPod would drain its battery in less than an hour. That power bank gave you 5 hours of video viewing time.
I got an iPod touch 5g around 2012. It was my first music player/smartphone device. I loved it. But then came software updates, and with every update iOS became slower, until with iOS 9 it was so slow that even typing on the keyboard was impossible. Apple turned a wonderful device to shit for the sake of profit. And iTunes was such a locked-down crap of a software ecosystem. At some point I switched to Android and don't regret it ever since.
Thanks for making a video about iPods! I absolutely love them, and I have a small collection. I daily cary a 5th gen classic that I modded, including a large battery, 128gb storage, and bluetooth. I really enjoy using it and love all the crazy cool mods people do to them
We had a T3 connection in the computer lab at high school. I downloaded massive amounts of music on Napster. I was broke and tired of my Case Logic and all my CDs being stolen. Many albums I had bought multiple times due to theft. Probably bought 2Pac's "All Eyez on Me" 4 times so I felt zero guilt downloading music online. I had given the music labels thousands of dollars already.
Great video as always! Please do more videos about specific products. A small nitpick though: 05:07 I don't think that there is solid evidence that the record labels took a huge hit because of p2p file sharing, or that it was self-evident that the future of music was digital, at the early stage. It became obvious later of course, but there was a strong argument that p2p was actually causing a lot of people to buy more music, since they could listen to the mp3 for free and be exposed to hundreds of artists in a short time. What Apple did with iTunes was actually prove the record labels wrong: even if they were losing money, it wasn't because p2p was taking away from legitimate record sales, rather it was that indeed the future of music was digital, and the record labels wouldn't lose all that money if they set up a compelling legal paid alternative to p2p. Mind you, 0.99 per track was considered very expensive at the time, especially in countries where p2p was the most popular. The fact that it worked proved the previous points beyond all doubt.
I still use my iPod mini that I bough back in 2004! The design was so good that my octogenarian grandma figured out the mini I bought for her in less than a day.
I also remember the supply shortages of the mini. Those were fun times, and anticipation was authentic. You really could not get a mini outside of the USA for a while. Insane.
About a decade before the iPod, I used the same concept as an “invention” for a junior high project. The idea was to make an invention, market it, go through the pros cons etc. I drew what essentially looks like the iPod Shuffle 2G (I mean eerily identical, but without the clip) and had the slogan “1,000 songs in the palm of your hand”. In the details I just explained that you could play tapes or CD’s and the device would record the audio through the headphone port (like the shuffle uses the port for data). I didn’t have any concept of megabytes etc but it was just a project for a marketing lesson. One thing I can’t remember is whether it had a small display but I don’t think I would have imagined needing a display other than a track listing like a CD player. Things get invented independently all the time. It doesn’t surprise me that compaq or somebody in the 70’s did the same.
I had a metallic blue iPod mini, and then an iPod nano. They were my companions through my teenage years. Wonderful devices, both of them. I wonder if they still exist somewhere at my parents house. They usually save things that they know had, and have value for me, so I will definitely check the next time I'm back in Sweden and visiting them!
I remember having an iPod ages ago. It kept wiping my memory everytime I connected it to a new PC at the internet cafes I would visit. It then dawned on me that Apple didn't really make a truly "take everywhere" device but rather a box that was designed for computer users rather than the general public. The last straw was that I need to keep installing iTunes and changing the settings to not wipe my iPod every time I used a new PC wherever I travelled to in the world. They was the first and last owned Apple device I ever thankfully used and it was an easy choice to move onto far superior Android/PC-centric/based MP3 players, phones, consoles, etc.
160 GIGS! in my iPod Classic. Much larger iPad9s start with only 60Gigs? The battery is gone but it's always connected to power and it runs great. It won't last forever, so I don't know what I'm going to get to replace it. I love it.
Still have my 5.5 gen iPod video (classic). It still turns on and works but the hard drive has slowed down a lot. So many great memories with this iPod.
Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox was before the iPod, but rather pricy at $400-600 and used not so great hard drives. Apple used iBM/Hitachi minidrives ($250+). When Apple prepaid Samsung a billion+ for ram memory it drastically helped lower the price. Those early iPod Mini 1/2/4 gig used the Samsung memory instead of a hard drive opened up the floodgate and helped bring in the iPhone. The iPod Shuffle stick being $99/$129 helped also and had booming push-pull amps that gave out the best sound. So from $99-$500 you had great Ipod music options. Eventually the ram priced got cheap enough that hard drives could be eliminated. -all of these old iPods are still pretty cool for $5-$50 and you will get a whole catalog of music from a time ago. Cool anodized colors. They are iconic for music lovers and simple to use and generally bring a smile to your face. -Thank You to Apple/Steve Jobs and everyone that made this time in people's lives
Man! I remember when this happened. I was a kid in Nigeria and though I didn't understand fully what the iPod meant in the grand scheme, I was awed by how cool it looked. A friend of my Uncle's had one and it fascinated me to no end. I also still remember when the iPhone and iPad were unveiled. Smart phones were so rare and hard to come by for average folks back then in my country and having one made you into a big person. Now, they are as common as toothpicks🤣🤣 Cool times😌😌
Bruv I was literally thinking about stocking them up and Reselling them here in my country 🇿🇦. Bringing back iPod and other MP3/WAV players today will be a big deal for us start up tech businesses. Thank you for covering this, big chief!
I owned a Zune player and the problem was if you wanted to make a playlist of songs, it would copy the entire song from the library to the playlist and create two copies of the same song and would eat up the very limited memory. The iPod would allow you to create many playlists and just reference which songs in the library to play and use up minimal memory. that's when I bought Apple stock because I knew it was so superior to all the other players out there that everything else would become obsolete. Then came the iPhone...
I was a late comer to the Ipod, but what I loved so much about it was they moved so fast that very quickly there was an Ipod for everyone. MP3 changed the world, but it was the Ipod that took us there.
Whatever you are talking about i go straight to your videos to have this pleasure hearing your voice Thanks bro for making this content in the era of triviality
Very fascinating how much of an effect these apple products have had on technology. I really enjoyed your other videos on the iPhone and apple silicon also.
That is usually from bad usb power supplies. And still happens today. Especially with unbranded power supplies. There are other possible reasons too. My new surface tablet shocked the heck out of me. They sent me a new power supply and the problem went away.
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@@ecospider5 Its also called static electricity and bad HW design. I never was shocked by my Game Boy or GBA but later on with newer devices like PSP and PS Vita I remembered to ground myself before plugging in because they used less plastic and had more places to contact metal. I think even the 3DS got me once so its not a manufacturer thing as much as a new manufacturing process most companies follow now a days. Thing is being zapped by an Apple product was considered normal... its not. Even considering how uncommon being zapped by PSP, PS Vita, 3DS and some other portable devices was most portable devices *DO NOT* zap users ever when they plug their devices in and that is normal and right. Thinking back to it noe I think after around 2010 the focus on thin and light designs many manufacturers even good ones really cut certain corners when it came to keeping people from accidentally becoming the ground terminal for their portable devices. Unfortunately, most laptops regardless of brand zap users if they're not careful these days.
Organizing new music on iTunes and then syncing with the iPod was a real pleasure. Even if it wasn’t physical media, I find it true that you would connect with your music in that way.
I always credit my iPod that defined my love of music today. A brilliant innovation. For years I'd carry 2 devices around; my phone and iPod, but soon retired my iPod as music streaming and Bluetooth becomes a norm now.
I never had an Ipod as a child (I didn't live in a western nation) but when I was a little kid I had some off-brand knockoff that played Mp3s. This was right when smartphones were starting to come out but weren't yet do-everything devices, and my teachers were telling me that people would never want to take out their phone to listen to music, thus a stand alone player would always be needed. Oh well, can't always be right!
Walkman(s), including the CD versions, were so cool and part of my life, iPod(s), never went into them, maybe I was in a stage of life that I never needed one of those, including the smaller versions, but then with smartphones I used them like Walkman, including when streaming started. Now it is all about Hi-Res music, streaming or downloaded for me. I remeber my first internet connection, think around 1993, costing me USD3/hour! Now I pay ~USD15 for a 1 Gbit/sec unlimited connection!
Besides the iPod touch, I loved the nano and it’s control system. Those devices made me appreciate the iPhone even more. It’s so cool to see how apple created AirPods to further enhance simple music for the consumers.
I went on a 6-week trip to Europe in 2005. At the time, I hadn't heard of the ipod yet. Instead, I got a very fancy CD player that played MP3s, not just standard CDs. I spent *weeks* burning MP3s onto CDs to take on the trip, and when I finally left, I was super-excited that I had a few hundred CDs' worth of music in a (relatively) slim CD case. Then the CD player broke a few weeks before the end of my trip, and I was despondent because I couldn't listen to my music anymore. A few months after I got home, I discovered the ipod and was like "where were YOU when I was my trip! I could have fit all my music into this one tiny device!" It was a game-changer for sure.
Say what you will about the Apple ecosystem today, but it really was something out of a sci-fi setting 15-20 years ago. You just plugged in your device and everything just worked.
Tech was great in general, I live in Eastern Europe, In 2006 as a kid i bough small mp3 player with 2GB memory for 20$, i remember thinking how 20$ was a lot of money 😅
I totally agree. Everyone beats up on Apple as an elitist platform, but in reality it's anything but. While they didn't invent the smart watch, smart phone, the digital music player, the tablet, or the personal computer, they certainly made them ubiquitous and upped the game in quality. If left to Microsoft, Google and others, they would all be ho-hum, clunky and hard-to-use. Excellence costs money. Putting a micro-drive inside an iPod and a touch screen on an iPhone was a risky and expensive proposition. Yet Apple's street prices at the time, $399 for an iPod and $300 for an iPhone, for instance, they were incredibly low considering all the advanced technologies packed into them. This lead to a huge market of more affordable competitors that wouldn't have existed otherwise. Android wouldn't exist as we know it today if Apple didn't take the risk in R&D.
I have one... I it was a 3rd tier gift for being top sales for the quarter like 20 years ago... it's the one without any buttons... instead it has a touche sensitive circle and maybe 40 GB in storage. The battery goes dead in 1-2 hours (even when it was new)...
My wife's 1st generation iPod still works perfectly but sits in our tech museum (the third drawer down). I'm not sure if I could find a way to connect it to Apple Music on a M2 Mac Book Air though.
@@mattbennett1557 True, but I might leave it to my future grandkids to figure out. We have an original Sony Walkman, a first-generation iPad, and a Playstation 1 stuffed in the third drawer down.
I’m still using my 13-year-old iPod Classic. I love its UI and its clickwheel. I vastly prefer it over the music apps on Android and iOS. And not needing an Internet connection is a plus in many situations. I know standalone music players are now a niche product and know Apple won’t bring it back. And I know it will almost certainly never happen but I would live to see Apple license the technology so third-party companies or groups could make new ones.
I've never owned an iPod, but my 13 year old daughter has recently bought one! Until she showed it to me I'd never even seen one 'in the flesh' so to speak. It's sleek, stylish, and easy to use, but personally I'd still rather have my old iRiver H320 because of the multitude of file formats it can play and for the I/O connections. I can certainly see why the iPod was so successful though, and rightly so.
I bought my first iPod (3rd gen, 15GB) when it came out (2003?) and the main selling point was compatibility with PC. I still have that iPod, and it is still functional. I have since built up a tidy collection of different models. I still use one (16GB nano) everyday, since my car interfaces with it. Wouldn't dream of using anything else for music.
Super dope project. love creative project where you get to just have fun, try new stuff out, try stuff you have wanted too but didn’t think it would be good, just try it out 🤷♂️
I still have my V1 5Gb - and it still works ! However, I can’t manage songs - so it’s a time capsule of my music from 20 years ago. It’s now a background element on my CZcams channel shelf.
Those of us who remember the Walkman, the discman, the mini disc, the MP3 players and then the iPod, truly understand the impact it made.
I loved my MiniDisc, but it didn't solve the problem of carrying lots of media with you. Despite it's small size, the disks were as, if not more bulky than the CDs they replaced. The real advantage was the ability to make digital mixtapes (albeit recorded in real-time from analogue sources on the early models). Needless to say I bought an iPod on day 1.
The walkman on a schoolbus made you the coolest kid ever.
@zapod20 I've got 8 Beatles albums on one standard MiniDisc in LP Mode. The 1GB Hi-MD can store even more than that and copy faster than real-time via USB and SonicStage on PC/Hi-MD Music Transfer on the Mac! Basically a mobile recording studio/MP3 player and digital mix tape machine all in one!
I can still remember, in the pre-iPod Walkman era, the fashion was to do almost everything to conceal the headphone wires but when the iPod came out showing the white wires _were_ almost like a status symbol.
Yup, and yet they sounded mid. I was expecting to be blown away by the sound quality when I first put them on like, damn these are the coveted ipod headphones?
Everybody in my school had an iPod but i couldn't cuz I was poor. Seeing people with iPods made me feel even poorer
That’s from the Simpson’s apple episode. Lisa couldn’t afford an iPhone so she just bought some white earphones. They were called iPhonies 😂 the company was called Mapple and was led by a guy named Steve Mobs and lived in an underwater lair
Pre-iPod mp3 players.
Unless you had tried better and knew the sound was shit
I’m so glad I lived my teenage years during the iPod era. It was honestly a beautiful time.
Me too. God we’re getting old.
@@zachsteiner we are bro 😆 we’re already old
I remember back in the late 90s, a friend had a portable CD player that could also play the MP3 files on a data CD, that held hundreds of songs per disk. My mind was blown.
I bought one of these and loved it. They were even more skip-proof than regular discmans because the files were way smaller so more ‘song’ could be held in the buffer
Same here. I was walking to elementary school with a Walkman, then drove to high school with a discman, then upgraded to MP3 discman, after witnessing it at a friend's place. Total game changer! When MP3 Players became widely available (I never had the money for an iPod), I was so happy. I'm still using one to this day, but will probably switch to full time streaming soon. What a ride.
Omg that brings back memories of burning my first cd with mp3s from lime wire or Napster and having it work on my round cd player. Lol and then edit the tracks so they showed up on the display was sweet.
I had a mini did that would play mp3s it was ace
Hahaha I remember my mp3 disc player. Such an awesome unit. It had like 13s anti-skip so could survive the bouncy school bus ride without missing a beat.
I still remember my main mix CD. For some reason I put Linkin Park (which was my favourite because I was an edgy 13 year old with depression) right in the middle so always ended up having to skip to track 54 before I could play it.
It’s astonishing to think that there is an entire generation that has grown up without immense fascination with iPod.
So true
There were literally thousands that grew up without it before and it really wasn't even the first or best, just the most well-known.
Now kids just use their parents old phones rather than buying even an iPod touch.
not really surprising when you think of people outside the US or Australia or Europe. only one person in my life has ever had an ipod
@@VariantAECmore like millions grew up with it
0:00: 🔑 The original iPod was designed and manufactured in a few months and credited to an obscure man named Ken Kramer.
3:12: 🎵 The rise of digital music and the MP3 format disrupted the music industry, leading to the development of portable MP3 players.
6:31: 💽 Apple developed the iPod with a small form factor and high capacity hard drive, using the iconic mechanical scroll wheel for easy navigation.
9:29: 💽 The iPod was developed by a team led by Fidel, using components from various companies. It had a minimalist design and became a status symbol.
12:41: 🎵 Apple's iPod revolutionized the music industry, selling over 400 million units and paving the way for the iPhone.
Recap by Tammy AI
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I remember saving up for the iPod Nano 3rd Gen as a kid. It wasn't much but for that brief moment, I felt like the coolest kid on the block who didn't have an iPhone and immediately loaded it with all the songs I got off of Limewire.
Dude I just bought a black one off ebay to relive the magic and it's still awesome. One of the best models.
I still have my Nano 3rd Gen which my dad bought for me in 2007. And it still works.
@@galwitprifor001 Lucky.
Thanks for this comment. I remember my 16th birthday gift was an iPod, I really enjoyed using that device, especially playing Klondike on it. I remember buying albums burning them to my laptop and syncing them on iTunes. There was no greater feeling than just taking a long stroll and listening to music.
I had both the classic 80GB unfortunately dropped it and was a goner. My ipod nano was a beast, had music and paired with the nike sensor I could log my runs, then sync the data with my pc to the Nike website. I miss those days. This was pre smart phones, having the ability to record runs digitally was mind blowing for me.
I am one of those people that collects iPods and still uses them. I got a bit surprised by the small resurgence they've had in the last couple of years. They're still great little devices, especially the classic ones, with a few upgrades.
I think dankpods is to blame
Within the last 5 years I’ve been slowly collecting a few, their accessories and cases. Models I’ve always wanted but didn’t have the means to afford them in my teens.
One word - dankpods
I still believe an iPod Classic with an expanded battery because of the extra space given by a microSD storage adapter to replace the tiny hdd is one of the best things. Rockbox optional.
Good luck
Right now the DEX has a huge glitch
If you are swapping you are getting like x 7 I done a vldeo
I swear to god ColdFusion brings out the best videos. By now we all have close to 1000 ColdFusion videos in our pockets like how Steve Jobs said we would have 1000 songs with the Ipod. It's ironic saying this as I like Android.
you should be truthful.
and call upon your witnesses
give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have
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purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.
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have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow.
abide therein eternally
what is smaller than it. And those who have believed know that it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, "What
intend by this as an example?" He misleads many thereby and guides many thereby
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the truth guides many thereby.
He misleads not
Who break the covenant?
has ordered to be joined
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Losers ?
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How
lifeless and He brought to life;
bring you [back] to life
Cause to die then bring back to life
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How can you disbelieve
Him
It is He who created for you all of that which is on the earth. Then He directed Himself to the heaven, [His being above all creation], and made them
Knowing of all things.
all of that which is on the earth
who created for you
the earth.
The heavens
Himself
Above all
and made them
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1 Corinthians 6:3
3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not matters of this life?
there is nothing carefully concealed that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not become known.+ 3 Therefore, whatever you say Adam does Adam mean
Jehovah, the God of truth.*+
6 I hate those who are devoted to worthless, vain idols,
But as for me, I trust in Jehovah.
7 I will rejoice greatly in your loyal love,
For you have seen my affliction;+
You are aware of my deep distress.*
8 You have not handed me over to the enemy,
But you make me stand in a place of safety.*
9 Show me favor, O Jehovah, for I am in distress.
Anguish has made my eyes weak,+ my whole body* as well.+
10 My life is consumed with grief+
And my years with groaning.+
My strength is waning because of my error;
I trust in you, O Jehovah.+
I declare: “You are my God.”+
15 My days* are in your hand.
Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those persecuting
Be courageous, and may your heart be strong,+
All you who are waiting for Jehovah.
But you heard my pleas for help when I cried out to you.+
for me, I panicked and said:
The iPod had 5gb of storage. Really that was amazing. There were netbooks 10 years later that only had 4gb. And my current $1500 iPhone only has 256gb. That’s not much of a jump in 20 years.
Yes there is a massive speed improvement with tiny storage though.
Competition between apple & android users is good for consumers. If Apple didnt exist, we wouldn't have so many things rn.
Speak for yourself my Motorola android has 256 gigs then I added a 512gig SD........between my phone📱and removable storage I have over 10,000 songs because I hate streaming.
@@mankind8088Same Why would i pay for music
I still have my iPod 6th generation, and it still boots and works. It was a gift from my daugther. I never thought ColdFusion would take me down to nostalgia lane so much one day :)
Yet another great CF video, thanks!
Never owned one of these, but remember when MP3s were getting lots of attention. In the late 90s one person in my circle took some old PC parts and a DC to AC inverter and ran an old DOS machine in the trunk of his car. Every time the car powered up, the PC would boot up and the autoexec.bat would start MP3 playing. I think he had a 10GB or more of HDD. Long before the iPhone I had a flip phone with a micrSD card slot that played MP3s and had dual speaker as well as a headphone jack. It also had a camera and limited apps. I could get to my bank account in text on a very small screen.
One correction: MP3 format does introduce significant losses in fidelity of the original music. It was very compact, but to state that it didn't affect quality is just not correct.
While true, the difference might be indistinguishable for the vast majority of crappy earbuds.
Sidebar, Apple computers had to get permission at the beginning to use the Apple name, at that time already owned by Apple Music formed by the Beatles. They were given permission on the condition that they never go into the music business. When they started iTunes, they had to negotiate again for their name, they could have potentially lost the use of the name Apple as a result.
Boy would that have been a snafu. Makes the forced WWF rebranding to WWE seem like child's play.
scummy company
Such a wasted opportunity to rebrand the company to orange.
@@X_manoOr Grape... Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
I was a tween when iPods came out. They were easily the most popular device as a kid since the game boy color. By the time the second gen nano came out 90% of my friends and classmates had an iPod. They were truly integral to mid 2000s life.
For my friends and I in middle school, the iPod was like a Nintendo Switch, as parents were reluctant on giving their kids expensive smartphones. We played games in the hall- and stairways. Fun times with the iPod.
I REALLY ABSOLUTELY miss that anticipation of what they were going to do with the next iPod!! My first one was the 30GB iPod Video for Christmas 2005!!! I felt like the man because not a lot of people had that new iPod at the time! Now days with Apple Music, Apple ruined the way iTunes would allow you to customize your playlists individually instead of just syncing all of it like now. I absolutely hate that they did this to the playlist feature. Sometimes my artwork doesn’t show on one device and sometimes my playlists get duplicated and this infuriates me because they could have just easily made Apple Music for only Music and playlists like iTunes and moved the iPhone updaters to finder. I know they could have kept the playlist features the same. If it aint broke don’t fix it!! This time they broke it instead of fixing it!! I understand why they had to separate the iTunes store but I hate that Apple Music and Finder are required to keep my iPod running with music and playlists and I refuse to keep a separate mac just for iTunes of old!! 😑
This video made me nostalgic, CD, MP3 and memories of the user experience with the original iPod, and of course the memory of the vibe of the old internet!
i remember sony, samsung and other companies making great mp3 players with drag and drop music folders that were cheap, had good storage ability for large playlists and had a great sound quality, but were a pain in the ass to use sometimes if you were already sucked into the apple ecosystem and didnt own a pc which was more suited to the (not always essential) software involved in said devices
What ever happened to creative? I miss that company
Microsoft trying with the Zune, lol, but they couldn't touch the igod
Still got a 4rd gen iPod (2004) that works - black/white LCD screen and mechanical hard drive. Great machine and quite good audio quality, especially for the time.
Good to hear the development story all in one spot. Now if only Apple could continue to innovate like this instead of taking away features we actually use like 3.5mm audio jacks...
The audio quality was amazing. Especially if you are willing to use Apple Lossless compression. A lot fewer songs but worth it to me.
Have you seen the APPLE Vision Pro? Apple is only innovating more now!
I'm not an Apple fan boy by any means, but honestly, I'm glad Apple pushed wireless earbuds onto the market.
One of the most annoying things was having to deal with tangled earphone wires and if wireless earbuds can (and they do) provide the same quality sound, then I'm all for it.
3.5 mm jack would barely ever be used by people who have wireless earbuds.
I say this as someone who was initially very critical of removing the jack in the first place.
If you're going to complain about anything, it should be repaireability and easily replaceable batteries. The latter is particularly important given iPhones tend to last very long, and often, their batteries are the bottleneck in longevity.
Sadly, that trend was there from the beginning with Apple.
4rd?
@@theheadguy1212 meant to write 4th but was thinking 3rd.
Baked into iTunes for Windows came QuickTime back to the PC. The war between Microsoft and Apple over video playback is probably worth an extra episode.
I remember all of Apple's history. I'm roughly the age of Steve Jobs (as he would be, if he was still alive), and even used a friend's Apple II, when it was still a new product. It was the iMac, that put Apple back into the "black", but if they just stayed there, then they would just be one of many, and would eventually go belly up. The iPod did differentiate Apple, as it was a unique product. I do remember the Diamond Rio, and it was only selling in the $50 to $70 range around the time the iPod came out. At the time, I thought its storage capacity was adequate, as we were use to less than a hours worth of songs. No one needed to store, your whole music collection. So we thought. The good thing of the iPod was that it could store any type of file, and later versions had larger storage and could play video.
I made a power bank (before power banks were a thing) for a friend, so he could watch whole movies on his iPod on long plane flights. Playing a video, an iPod would drain its battery in less than an hour. That power bank gave you 5 hours of video viewing time.
Are you an AAPL investor?
Oh man, I remember my old iPod. I simply loved it. The memories❤️
This episode was brilliantly documented! Thank you!
Coldfusion! Glad you're posting again
One of my favourite CZcams channel on startups and history of famous companies. Thannk for you work :)
I got an iPod touch 5g around 2012. It was my first music player/smartphone device. I loved it. But then came software updates, and with every update iOS became slower, until with iOS 9 it was so slow that even typing on the keyboard was impossible. Apple turned a wonderful device to shit for the sake of profit. And iTunes was such a locked-down crap of a software ecosystem. At some point I switched to Android and don't regret it ever since.
Thanks for making a video about iPods! I absolutely love them, and I have a small collection. I daily cary a 5th gen classic that I modded, including a large battery, 128gb storage, and bluetooth. I really enjoy using it and love all the crazy cool mods people do to them
From a soothing voice, to excellent visuals, solid research, and interesting topics , your videos never disappoint, Dagogo!
Do you mean soothing voice?
@@danmar007lool
@@danmar007 yes! Sorry, english is my third language
cheers always look forward to new uploads from you. love from nz
We had a T3 connection in the computer lab at high school. I downloaded massive amounts of music on Napster. I was broke and tired of my Case Logic and all my CDs being stolen. Many albums I had bought multiple times due to theft. Probably bought 2Pac's "All Eyez on Me" 4 times so I felt zero guilt downloading music online. I had given the music labels thousands of dollars already.
Greatest album ever. That album got me into hip hop..
Was playing holla at me the other day.
Great video as always! Please do more videos about specific products.
A small nitpick though: 05:07 I don't think that there is solid evidence that the record labels took a huge hit because of p2p file sharing, or that it was self-evident that the future of music was digital, at the early stage. It became obvious later of course, but there was a strong argument that p2p was actually causing a lot of people to buy more music, since they could listen to the mp3 for free and be exposed to hundreds of artists in a short time. What Apple did with iTunes was actually prove the record labels wrong: even if they were losing money, it wasn't because p2p was taking away from legitimate record sales, rather it was that indeed the future of music was digital, and the record labels wouldn't lose all that money if they set up a compelling legal paid alternative to p2p. Mind you, 0.99 per track was considered very expensive at the time, especially in countries where p2p was the most popular. The fact that it worked proved the previous points beyond all doubt.
I still use my iPod mini that I bough back in 2004!
The design was so good that my octogenarian grandma figured out the mini I bought for her in less than a day.
I also remember the supply shortages of the mini. Those were fun times, and anticipation was authentic. You really could not get a mini outside of the USA for a while. Insane.
About a decade before the iPod, I used the same concept as an “invention” for a junior high project. The idea was to make an invention, market it, go through the pros cons etc. I drew what essentially looks like the iPod Shuffle 2G (I mean eerily identical, but without the clip) and had the slogan “1,000 songs in the palm of your hand”. In the details I just explained that you could play tapes or CD’s and the device would record the audio through the headphone port (like the shuffle uses the port for data). I didn’t have any concept of megabytes etc but it was just a project for a marketing lesson. One thing I can’t remember is whether it had a small display but I don’t think I would have imagined needing a display other than a track listing like a CD player.
Things get invented independently all the time. It doesn’t surprise me that compaq or somebody in the 70’s did the same.
The click wheel UI was still the best. Current music app sucks.
I had a metallic blue iPod mini, and then an iPod nano. They were my companions through my teenage years. Wonderful devices, both of them. I wonder if they still exist somewhere at my parents house. They usually save things that they know had, and have value for me, so I will definitely check the next time I'm back in Sweden and visiting them!
We had an iPod mini back in the day, and boy did it rock through many of our family road trips 😁
I remember having an iPod ages ago. It kept wiping my memory everytime I connected it to a new PC at the internet cafes I would visit. It then dawned on me that Apple didn't really make a truly "take everywhere" device but rather a box that was designed for computer users rather than the general public. The last straw was that I need to keep installing iTunes and changing the settings to not wipe my iPod every time I used a new PC wherever I travelled to in the world.
They was the first and last owned Apple device I ever thankfully used and it was an easy choice to move onto far superior Android/PC-centric/based MP3 players, phones, consoles, etc.
160 GIGS! in my iPod Classic. Much larger iPad9s start with only 60Gigs? The battery is gone but it's always connected to power and it runs great. It won't last forever, so I don't know what I'm going to get to replace it. I love it.
Still have my 5.5 gen iPod video (classic). It still turns on and works but the hard drive has slowed down a lot. So many great memories with this iPod.
Still listening to my iPod classic with 160GB HDD from 2007 , what a product. Amazing
Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox was before the iPod, but rather pricy at $400-600 and used not so great hard drives. Apple used iBM/Hitachi minidrives ($250+). When Apple prepaid Samsung a billion+ for ram memory it drastically helped lower the price. Those early iPod Mini 1/2/4 gig used the Samsung memory instead of a hard drive opened up the floodgate and helped bring in the iPhone. The iPod Shuffle stick being $99/$129 helped also and had booming push-pull amps that gave out the best sound. So from $99-$500 you had great Ipod music options.
Eventually the ram priced got cheap enough that hard drives could be eliminated.
-all of these old iPods are still pretty cool for $5-$50 and you will get a whole catalog of music from a time ago. Cool anodized colors. They are iconic for music lovers and simple to use and generally bring a smile to your face.
-Thank You to Apple/Steve Jobs and everyone that made this time in people's lives
Creative, Microsoft all tried and failed. No one could take down the igod.
Man! I remember when this happened. I was a kid in Nigeria and though I didn't understand fully what the iPod meant in the grand scheme, I was awed by how cool it looked. A friend of my Uncle's had one and it fascinated me to no end. I also still remember when the iPhone and iPad were unveiled. Smart phones were so rare and hard to come by for average folks back then in my country and having one made you into a big person. Now, they are as common as toothpicks🤣🤣 Cool times😌😌
Bruv I was literally thinking about stocking them up and Reselling them here in my country 🇿🇦. Bringing back iPod and other MP3/WAV players today will be a big deal for us start up tech businesses. Thank you for covering this, big chief!
Once again a great video. Thank you. I enjoy watching your content.
3rd Gen with the all-touch buttons, which glowed orange in the dark, was the greatest design. No click wheel but so amazing.
I owned a Zune player and the problem was if you wanted to make a playlist of songs, it would copy the entire song from the library to the playlist and create two copies of the same song and would eat up the very limited memory. The iPod would allow you to create many playlists and just reference which songs in the library to play and use up minimal memory. that's when I bought Apple stock because I knew it was so superior to all the other players out there that everything else would become obsolete. Then came the iPhone...
I was a late comer to the Ipod, but what I loved so much about it was they moved so fast that very quickly there was an Ipod for everyone. MP3 changed the world, but it was the Ipod that took us there.
Whatever you are talking about i go straight to your videos to have this pleasure hearing your voice
Thanks bro for making this content in the era of triviality
Very fascinating how much of an effect these apple products have had on technology. I really enjoyed your other videos on the iPhone and apple silicon also.
ipod was my very first apple device and I instantly fell in love with apple products and design
From the cassette walkman, discman, ipod, iPod touch to having nothing now has been a ride I’d go on again 😭😭
Inspiring video. I'm watching it in the morning and feeling motivated to keep chasing my dreams.
I have one of the last classic models and still use it for music, audiobooks, podcasts, British and old time radio shows. I love that thing.
My mother used to have one of those. Still have the fond memories of getting shocked while trying to charge one of those.
That is usually from bad usb power supplies. And still happens today. Especially with unbranded power supplies.
There are other possible reasons too.
My new surface tablet shocked the heck out of me. They sent me a new power supply and the problem went away.
“I will perish from before you.”+
Love Jehovah, all you who are loyal to him!+
Jehovah protects the faithful
But I trust in you, O Jehovah.+
I declare: “You are my God.”
When they gather together as one
when I call on you.
be praised,
I have heard
forgotten Let your Kingdom come.
And forgive
also forgive everyone Give each yes us
All our sins,+ for we ourselves
We are all born into sin also forgive everyone who is born free from error
Also forgive error who is born
To safe those from error
everyone asking
everyone seeking
everyone knocking
Indeed, which among you, if his son asks
Free from error as children it will be opened and it will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you.+ 10 For everyone asking receives,+ and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking, it will be opened. 11 Indeed, which father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish?+Therefore, if you, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will the Father in heaven give holy spirit to those asking him!”
Show me favor, for I am in distress
make me stand in a place of safety.*
rejoice greatly in your loyal love,
For you have seen my affliction;
You are aware of my deep distress.*
trust
the God of truth.*+
For the sake of your name,+ you will lead me and guide me.+
save me
Rescue me
@@ecospider5
Its also called static electricity and bad HW design.
I never was shocked by my Game Boy or GBA but later on with newer devices like PSP and PS Vita I remembered to ground myself before plugging in because they used less plastic and had more places to contact metal. I think even the 3DS got me once so its not a manufacturer thing as much as a new manufacturing process most companies follow now a days. Thing is being zapped by an Apple product was considered normal... its not. Even considering how uncommon being zapped by PSP, PS Vita, 3DS and some other portable devices was most portable devices *DO NOT* zap users ever when they plug their devices in and that is normal and right. Thinking back to it noe I think after around 2010 the focus on thin and light designs many manufacturers even good ones really cut certain corners when it came to keeping people from accidentally becoming the ground terminal for their portable devices.
Unfortunately, most laptops regardless of brand zap users if they're not careful these days.
Organizing new music on iTunes and then syncing with the iPod was a real pleasure. Even if it wasn’t physical media, I find it true that you would connect with your music in that way.
I love your videos, I had two of them in the day. Thanks for this.
I always credit my iPod that defined my love of music today. A brilliant innovation. For years I'd carry 2 devices around; my phone and iPod, but soon retired my iPod as music streaming and Bluetooth becomes a norm now.
Every time this warm husky voice makes me calm man
Fascinating stuff...cheers !
Cool. Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
Still have my 4th gen touch and my 2nd gen mini and I have very fond memories of them
My first iPod was the 5 Gen Video iPod and its my favorite music player since. I now use the iPhone for music, Games and Videos.
Hey Dagogo, happy you are back from vacation, hope you had a good one.
Using the scrollwheel was such an amazing feeling
Nice! Another video from one of the best CZcamsrs I know!
4:07 Was it the DAT file format used when the CDs / VCDs, we bought, were written in?
Still have the iPod video. Love that device
I feel old knowing that iPod is 22 years old
I never had an Ipod as a child (I didn't live in a western nation) but when I was a little kid I had some off-brand knockoff that played Mp3s. This was right when smartphones were starting to come out but weren't yet do-everything devices, and my teachers were telling me that people would never want to take out their phone to listen to music, thus a stand alone player would always be needed. Oh well, can't always be right!
iPod lives on in revolutionary legend even as its 21-year run has ended
Still use my Classic, last gen today. Just a brilliant device. Cheers from 🇩🇪
Walkman(s), including the CD versions, were so cool and part of my life, iPod(s), never went into them, maybe I was in a stage of life that I never needed one of those, including the smaller versions, but then with smartphones I used them like Walkman, including when streaming started. Now it is all about Hi-Res music, streaming or downloaded for me. I remeber my first internet connection, think around 1993, costing me USD3/hour! Now I pay ~USD15 for a 1 Gbit/sec unlimited connection!
Besides the iPod touch, I loved the nano and it’s control system. Those devices made me appreciate the iPhone even more. It’s so cool to see how apple created AirPods to further enhance simple music for the consumers.
great vid, "intricle" is not a word, it is "integral"
Man digogo I love your videos keep up the amazing work😁
I went on a 6-week trip to Europe in 2005. At the time, I hadn't heard of the ipod yet. Instead, I got a very fancy CD player that played MP3s, not just standard CDs. I spent *weeks* burning MP3s onto CDs to take on the trip, and when I finally left, I was super-excited that I had a few hundred CDs' worth of music in a (relatively) slim CD case. Then the CD player broke a few weeks before the end of my trip, and I was despondent because I couldn't listen to my music anymore. A few months after I got home, I discovered the ipod and was like "where were YOU when I was my trip! I could have fit all my music into this one tiny device!" It was a game-changer for sure.
A thousand songs in your pocket.
Who would believe that in 2001.
Say what you will about the Apple ecosystem today, but it really was something out of a sci-fi setting 15-20 years ago. You just plugged in your device and everything just worked.
Tech was great in general, I live in Eastern Europe, In 2006 as a kid i bough small mp3 player with 2GB memory for 20$, i remember thinking how 20$ was a lot of money 😅
I totally agree. Everyone beats up on Apple as an elitist platform, but in reality it's anything but. While they didn't invent the smart watch, smart phone, the digital music player, the tablet, or the personal computer, they certainly made them ubiquitous and upped the game in quality. If left to Microsoft, Google and others, they would all be ho-hum, clunky and hard-to-use.
Excellence costs money. Putting a micro-drive inside an iPod and a touch screen on an iPhone was a risky and expensive proposition. Yet Apple's street prices at the time, $399 for an iPod and $300 for an iPhone, for instance, they were incredibly low considering all the advanced technologies packed into them. This lead to a huge market of more affordable competitors that wouldn't have existed otherwise. Android wouldn't exist as we know it today if Apple didn't take the risk in R&D.
Fascinating history
I remember and owning the iPod 📱. Such classic memories
Great Content 💯❤
I have one... I it was a 3rd tier gift for being top sales for the quarter like 20 years ago... it's the one without any buttons... instead it has a touche sensitive circle and maybe 40 GB in storage. The battery goes dead in 1-2 hours (even when it was new)...
Nice one. Thanks mate
Still use a 5.5 gen or a 6th gen every day (different libraries on each). Love the pod!
My wife's 1st generation iPod still works perfectly but sits in our tech museum (the third drawer down). I'm not sure if I could find a way to connect it to Apple Music on a M2 Mac Book Air though.
You could probably run an old version of iTunes in a virtual machine
@@mattbennett1557 True, but I might leave it to my future grandkids to figure out. We have an original Sony Walkman, a first-generation iPad, and a Playstation 1 stuffed in the third drawer down.
It’s still fully supported in Apple Music, you just need a USB-C to FireWire adaptor and it will find it and allow you to sync songs to it.
I’m still using my 13-year-old iPod Classic. I love its UI and its clickwheel. I vastly prefer it over the music apps on Android and iOS. And not needing an Internet connection is a plus in many situations.
I know standalone music players are now a niche product and know Apple won’t bring it back. And I know it will almost certainly never happen but I would live to see Apple license the technology so third-party companies or groups could make new ones.
I've never owned an iPod, but my 13 year old daughter has recently bought one! Until she showed it to me I'd never even seen one 'in the flesh' so to speak. It's sleek, stylish, and easy to use, but personally I'd still rather have my old iRiver H320 because of the multitude of file formats it can play and for the I/O connections. I can certainly see why the iPod was so successful though, and rightly so.
I had the Shuffle before and yes it was so cool to have one of those back then.
I never owned an iPod. I was more of a "portable FM Radio" kid back in the day.
4th gen touch, 6th gen classic and 3rd gen nano 💪
I bought my first iPod (3rd gen, 15GB) when it came out (2003?) and the main selling point was compatibility with PC. I still have that iPod, and it is still functional. I have since built up a tidy collection of different models. I still use one (16GB nano) everyday, since my car interfaces with it. Wouldn't dream of using anything else for music.
Great episode: thanks! And I am still using an iPod Nano for my talking books. No bluetooth, no Wifi. But simplicity in playing books :-)
Thanks Dagogo, excellent video.
So basically it was that Fadel guy who saved Apple and not really Steve Jobs! Who would have thought! 🤷♂️
Amazing documentary
Super dope project. love creative project where you get to just have fun, try new stuff out, try stuff you have wanted too but didn’t think it would be good, just try it out 🤷♂️
Great product. I have the world's first portable digital music player, the Sony D-50 cd player from 1984 which is portable with it's battery holder.
I still have my V1 5Gb - and it still works ! However, I can’t manage songs - so it’s a time capsule of my music from 20 years ago.
It’s now a background element on my CZcams channel shelf.
Watching the Compaq “iPod” photo and the first song is from U2 like you couldn’t escape them