This iPod Was a Fraud: Not Made by Apple!
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- The iPod Shuffle was not Apple's best-selling iPod, but the first-gen was its best-sounding and most whimsical ever.
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In this video, we unearth forgotten iPods still in their original boxes, showcasing their incredible sound quality and timeless appeal. Join us as we delve into the nostalgia of classic Apple devices, highlighting their pristine condition and unique features. From iPod Classics to Shuffles, experience firsthand the unmatched audio performance these gadgets offer. Discover why these relics of the past remain cherished among tech enthusiasts and audiophiles alike. Don’t miss out on this journey through Apple’s iconic music players-subscribe now for more tech insights and vintage gadget reviews!
0:00 How the early iPod came to DOMINATE
1:50 The need for a sub-$100 iPod
4:30 It's not really an iPod-seriously
7:22 Crazy official accessories
8:57 The best looking Apple case ever made
10:36 Official AAA battery booster-WILD!
13:16 The Second-Gen Shuffle
17:41 The Pyramid Scheme iPod Color!!!!
18:23 The Third-Gen Shuffle (we don't need buttons)
24:34 The Fourth-Gen Shuffle
28:20 The iPod Shuffle KNOCK-OFFS!
32:41 All the iPods Shuffle
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what are you talking about? Nobody called them jukeboxes everybody called them MP3 players. Also, what are you talking about that Apple revolutionized songs and not albums? Have you heard about the MP3? Like everybody was using winamp and MP3. Nobody was using albums. I don’t know what you’re talking about literally. We used winamp and we used MP3 and those devices were not called jukebox. Nobody called them jukebox at all they were called MP3 players so since I know you’re from my time, I don’t know why you’re saying this…. also actually. winamp was the first to offer library way before iTunes, and it was way better and way easier to use as well than iTunes. iTunes didn’t even have song scheduling until like 10 years after it was invented.
iPostor devices are what drove the progress in so many other devices!
To answer your question 30:46 Ladies often had maids to help them dress, so having buttons on the left made it easier for a right-handed helper. Also
Back in the day, women were expected to ride sidesaddle - having the buttons on the left stopped the wind getting into their shirts as they rode.
Also there was another reason
If a jacket buttoned right over left, the handle of the sword would be likely to catch in the jacket opening when drawn
dude you used to wear some nice shirts that i really liked but now it's all golf shirts and whatever this black thing is.
i'm older than you and i spice it up way more than you. Take risks man and maybe let the wife shop for ya(please don't tell me she already does 😬)
This makes me feel so old. I cant believe this lil guy came out 20 years ago.
Wild indeed!
I also came out 20 years ago. I can’t play music tho
I can’t be the only one who thinks the AAA battery dock makes it look like a tiny WiiMote??
Kind of looks like the grips people get for their Apple Remote.
Wii was later?
NInTeNdO CoPiEd APPLE 🤣
18:21 Many people don't know that "limited edition" means "put in mouth."
That caught me SO off-guard and now it's the funniest thing in the world to me.
It was fantastic. Really laugh out loud funny.
every now and then quin does something so unhinged and it has me roaling on the floor
I had to immediately skip back to check if that really happened and then came to the comments 😁 I'm pretty sure those aren't water proof or resistant in any way. 😂It should be fine.
Hey, Dankpods, big fan
Slap of the one grit to ya!
@@snazzyso where is Frank huh? 👀
@@ithinkits8674She says nothing!
@@snazzy Should've loaded that AAA dock for the first gen with some genuine PKCells.
@@WOSArchives it's pronounced "AAA!"
Believe it or not, I got told I was being ridiculous for wearing a 2nd gen during a job interview for a UK apple authorised reseller. 😂
That recruiter didn’t know how to have fun!
Did you get the job?
@@Crlarl i Didn't ! the thing that bothered me was because i had tech experience they said no to me , then hired the girl after me who was prettier... oh yea the 2 people who interviewed were Men lol
Unfortunately, in retail, looks are more important to most companies. Sexism!
I’d love to know who that reseller was, as someone who used to manage a UK Apple Authorised Reseller, I’d have geeked out at someone coming in wearing an iPod Shuffle.
no green ipad and a facecam? what happened to you?!?!?!?
Snazzy Danks
Dank Labs
PLEASE make a video like this for the iPod Touch over the years.
Second this. Need a retrospective that goes through the stuff I didn’t know
@@mitchelldorrance Third(ed?)
Zuuuuuuuuune
Before you opened the cover on the charging accessory i thought "no way, that thing had a battery powered charging accessory?!" Which also confirmed why i thought it kind of looks like the battery powered pack attachment that went on Xbox controllers.
It does! Haha
I love those little 3.5mm headphone jack to USB cables, I’ve still got mine from my iPod shuffle and every now and again I run into it in my bin of cables.
Ahh yes, the classic bin of cables that gets bigger and bigger the older you get
9:18 ooh, nice reference
Let's get these iPods out onto a tray.
@@snazzyNice
18:21 was decadent or rancid?
An Aussie guy with a green iPad and a 2007 iMac likes this
iPod shuffle was the best iPod...ever. Honestly. The reliability (I think my first gen shuffle went through the wash like 4 times) and small size was brilliant. It had enough music on it for the day, and was actually easier to navigate than you might think because you could navigate backwards or forwards from the start of the playlist so you were kind of plunked down in the middle of the music and it was pretty easy to get to a specific song you wanted, etc. It was so easy to charge and always have with you, plus had the convenience of being a flash drive which you used to need.
Unboxing an obscure iPod, then immediately eating it. Never change Quinn!
0:20 - oh man, that iTunes design reminds me of the day I installed it on my PC to see what the fuss was about, and it physically renamed and reorganised my music folders ON MY HDD!! Uninstalled immediately. Took me months to fix that.
iTunes couldn't simply create an index of my music, it had to mess with my file structure. Never again, Apple! Never again.
That's because you had "keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder" checked under "Advanced" in the preferences. If you'd have known those options were checked by default, and unchecked them before adding your music, then perhaps you'd not have such a bad taste in your mouth from iTunes?
@@setoth1234 correct! Because those were checked by default it started moving files immediately upon install.
I thought it was indexing. After half an hour it was still going but I left it.
Luckily I realised something was up after a couple of hours and it had only affected ⅓ of my total music collection. (approx ten gigs)
My only fault there was trying iTunes.
Windows explorer for me. Double click, starts playing in Winamp (with amazing visuals library). Right-click a whole album folder and I can 'queue in Winamp'...
iTunes, no control, nefarious coding, rubbish repetitive visuals. Illogical.
I had that disabled for some years. Thsn I let iTunes take over and never looked back
You forgot to color grade the clip @ 15:58 heh, but awesome video as always from my favourite CZcamsr!
I bought a 4th gen shuffle for only £19 and I absolutely love it! It can hold like 40 albums, still has decent battery life and my mum is now jealous and wants one for her birthday!!
Truly a legendary set of products.
18:22 hold up
I had a cassette player with an inline remote on the headphones cable in the '90s 30 years ago
I also distinctly remember having a mini disc player in around 2001 with a bunch of controls on the headphone cable
Edit: I found it! It was a Sony MZ-N1
18:21 when the intrusive thoughts take over
😂
I LOVED my 3rd Gen Shuffle. I did have a Belkin adapter that included the controls so I could use any earphones.
it so smol
Man you popping the gold shuffle in your mouth had me lose it 😂😂😂
“Royal Mail screws me again” …Yep, welcome to our world 🇬🇧 😂
Now is the time to Google for the iPod Flea. Your sides will hurt from laughing.
Can we talk about how you casually put the shuffle in your mouth 😂
i loved my ipod nano 2gb, first ipod and it was no nonsense just music. loved it!
Putting the limited edition Avon Gold iPod Shuffle in your mouth is a textbook chad move
The first gen Apple iPod Shuffle was my very first Apple product ever here in Estonia when I was 17. Thank you for this trip back Quinn.
I completely forgot about the 3rd generation. I worked for an electronics department in a department store from late 2005 through late 2011, so I saw all generations of the Shuffle, but I COMPLETELY forgot about the 3rd gen. The idea was fine, until you realize that people would like to use their own earphones...
11:20 does the battery booster work as a normal USB power bank?
The OG Shuffle was my second iPod, after the 3rd Gen which I still own and occasionally use (strapped to power, battery long dead). You’re right, that first gen Shuffle was barely much more than a straight USB stick and so was a no brainer, very useful both for keeping files and a bit of music at hand where even a full size iPod was a bit big or a bit too much of a security risk. My Shuffle even survived a few trips through the washing machine, lol!
I have an ipod shuffle on my desk, right next to me. I don't use it much but it looks cool. The sounds was very good and battery life was good too for the time but limited storage!
are u me
When you ate the gold Avon shuffle I almost pissed my pants from laughing. I may be too high.
😂
The third gen is amazing, is so small, no buttons, just music. Way easier to control it with the earpods, compatible with more expensive earpods in-ear that sound much better. I love mine, but it was so tiny that I lost it haha
The first iPod was not just a music player but it also served as an external hard drive storage bank in addition to holding music and playing it from the iPod itself. Connect to your Mac and you could load it with photos and files too.
Loved this format! Getting history and the unboxing in one was very enjoyable.
The last Shuffle was PEAK! Easily my favorite Apple device ever. $50 for my young broke butt, sounded great, the voice over worked so well. I miss that device and would buy a re-release in a heart beat. Such a winning combo of form and function. Loved having hundreds of songs in such a small form. Such memories!
The first gen shuffle reminds me of my old Creative MuVo FM player. It was essentially a 256 or 512mb flash disk, that could connect to a battery holder and become an MP3 player.
I had the earlier version without the FM radio. Came with one Silver and one Wine coloured battery bc compartments. I swapped the compartment lids for a 3 tone effect. 128Mb. My first ever MP3 player.
Great video as always. Fun taking a trip down memory lane with these.
I have a 4th gen Shuffle, and my main complaint is that the square form factor makes it nearly impossible to tell which buttons you're pressing by feel. Not that it would be a lot easier with the 2nd generation, but at least you'd have a chance of knowing "oh I'm on the long side so that's volume up/down rather than back/forward." I used the Shuffle while biking and often hit the wrong button because of that. The other problem with the square form factor is that you can't squeeze the clip without also pressing the back button. Form over function IMO.
I remember I found one in a plane pocket when I was going on Holliday. Can’t remember what I did with it.
Apple's control through a jack cable was not an original invention; it was inspired by the LANC cable protocol, which was used to initiate recording on camcorders.
First ipod tier list episode by ATP and now this
This will be too much ipod talk in a week for me lolz
Love it
19:52 what did they „invent“? We had cable remotes in the late 80s, this was nothing new…
I actually liked the older headphones *better*. They stayed in my ears far better. When they changed them, the new design hurt so bad I had to go third party. Earpods were such a welcome change.
So, could you still use it with the extra battery case? With the original battery nuked would it still work with the external powering it?
I've been wrist-sniping your channel for years and you've got great taste in watches.
Hey thanks man!
I remember how good the iPod Shuffle first-gen sounded. But even better: Did you know that one iPod I listened music to was an iPod+HP Shuffle? Yup, HP. The weirdest partnership I almost forgot until you released this video.
Man talking about the shuffles brings back memories. I worked at an Apple store from late '08 thru beginning of '11 and there was always something endearing about these weird shuffles. The third gen at one point was $50. When people came in to buy just the basic apple remote headphones which were $30 we'd be like "Hey, for a little more you can get a WHOLE iPOD..." It felt weird when you contextualized it in that way you're either paying $20 for an iPod or (the reality) VASTLY overpaying for some basic ass headphones.
Also with all the different colors the amount of backroom inventory/PLU's to deal with was maddening. I felt bad for our inventory folks when they added colors.
We also had a whole training and protocol about how to deal with knockoffs - because legitimately sometimes people would come in with them thinking they were legit not knowing any better.
Can i like this video twice? Thank you for the nostalgia trip! Can you do all the iPods?
Walkmans had headphone remotes back in the 90s, Sir.
i deffo want one of these!! id be so excited to get my hands on em.
When I bought the original Shuffle here in Sweden when it was released - it was sold at Apple without the extra plastic wrap - only the green packaging. Your version is probably US/Canada version or something.... =)
What were the extra pins in the usb plug of the 1st gen shuffle used for? I've always wondered that. If I remember correctly the later versions of the first gen lost these extra pins? Or am i misremembering?
The 2nd Gen Shuffle brought back alot memories & nostalgia especially when you mentioned the crackling noise it makes when you move around the headphone jack lol
5:51 - correction! It didn't act like a _regular_ USB flash drive. While you _could_ partition an area of storage for NON-MUSIC files, they were not able to be accessed by the player. Only your encrypted music put in the encrypted partition, could be listened to on that iPod. Therefore, if your buddy gives you an MP3 file to take home and listen to, you had to take the iPod home (unable to play music from the STORAGE partition), then you had to copy your buddy's file to your Mac, drop it into iTunes, then re-sync you iPod so you can hear it.
I had an identical style thumb-drive MP3 player from iRiver (other manufacturers made them too) and it was a TRUE USB flash drive. Windows explorer let me drag and drop any folders of mixed files like music, word docs, jpegs, etc (any file!) into the drive before I left for work, and not only would the player simply play the music on my commute (and ignore non-music files), but I DIDN'T NEED ITUNES INSTALLED on my work or home PCs to drag and drop those files back out again! I never understood how Apple fans could allow themselves to be treated like this as well as having so many user control taken away from them. It was so incredibly illogical in 2007 and Apple still haven't changed today. 😎
Mr. Labs! I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of watch you have but searching for Seaforth Watch does not show me anything useful. Could you share what it is?
I got the 2nd gen shuffle in purple as a birthday gift from my sister. Was my first iPod and I loved it. Still kicking around somewhere
The SOC for the first shuffle: literally a very similar SOC is now in $5 dog buttons that record and playback a 60 second audio clip: those $5 dog buttons have the SOC, plastic housing and spring hardware, a microphone, a speaker, two switches. I open it up and the PCB has an SOC and two capacitors on it: that's it. And this is a $5 (including shipping) generic product from China. It's amazing how cheap these things are now. The actual SOC I've been unable to locate a datasheet for, but from what some people say on reddit: it seems to be fully programmable too. Crazy what you can get for $5 now.
Loved the first gen shuffle. Took it everywhere with me until it was stolen. Even used it with one of those cassette adapters in my car for a while. Never had another shuffle after that, but already had a 4th gen iPod. Went from that to iPhone years later.
I love these types of videos. Would love to see a history of the Mini/Nano too in Snazzy Labs style.
That first iteration of the iPod Shuffle (chewing gum case) was the absolute BEST! It was the LOUDEST ever out of them all. I also had mine rip out of my pocket on my motorcycle at 60mph and hit the road. It was then run over by THREE cars! Worked like a champ when I went back to get it. It was the best ever. So loud.
I would love to see a video for the standard iPod and iPod touch as well! I was really enjoying this video - thanks man!
I loved and still occasionally use the last generation shuffle for running. I've even put them through the wash accidentally and they survived. Originally I didn't see the point of a shuffle, but for a run where you don't want to have to think about selecting a song, it's perfect! Wish they still made these.
1:20 who in the world is this tall beardless guy.... 😆
it is like when I see my self with out a beard!
I have a 4th gen shuffle, I still use it sometimes, I love that thing
Great video. Nice to see the pods again.
Ah, yes! The iPod Shu-fflé 😉
9:19 July’24 that case accessory began its yellowing lifespan.😂
Great video as always 🙌🏼
Man this is making me feel so old, I had all of these. The big problem with the 3rd gen was that the headphones didn't last very long, weren't as good quality as other brands, and you had to use Apple's as basically nobody else made ones with the controls. It's a shame Apple don't make these anymore as I would buy one in a heartbeat.
Wow. Grammarly _really_ wants that access to all of your data!! 😆
Distinctly remember working at the country club, jamming out to my iPod Shuffle while using the ball picker to do my job.
Memories.
ill never forget getting my 5th gen ipod in 1st grade when it came out. it was the coolest thing ever
17:05 I remember this timeline, I also remember that all the color changes were intentional. After the first 7 months and all the complaints, they started considering it more as wearable accessory. As you can see all the colors were season based!
Because the lifecycle of the product was already defined they used this trick to continuing selling it. That also explains the gold one.
The first Shuffle was amazing. My son actually used one until 3 years ago. That thing is indestructible.
I could swear the Shuffles were one big playground for Apple to test out anodising Aluminium in every colour under the sun.
My first iPad was the original shuffle. 512MB. Just enough music for an 8 hr road trip to not hear a song on repeat. It sat nicely in the slot for the hand brake in my car and the headphone jack went into an FM transmitter in the cigarette lighter slot. Felt like a king, even though I was unaware of the quality of the experience on headphones. Still have one of the last shuffles sitting on the shelf. Might pull it out today to see what I was listening to when it was last used.
It if means something to you, a huge fly landed in the middle of my laptop's screen right on the iPod shuffle the second you opened it.
Not sure, may be a sign!
Oh no, you’re cursed
When I was in high school, I bought the 2nd gen shuffle for snowboarding. I thought I was so cool putting the iPod in my palm and running the headphone up my arm. then I just used my thumb in my gloves to control the music and the gloves provided enough padding to prevent accidental button pushes. It felt like the future
I had all 3 generations. I really loved the 3rd gen because it was the first “big” purchase I a made by saving up my allowance. My biggest gripe was the mirror finish on clip showing scratches within hours of opening it lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
This video is amazing, makes me feel old but incredible. I remember when the iPod Mini came out in all the colors, shuffles around ppls necks and my beloved Product RED iPod Nano....damn. Honestly too as weird as the UI is with the wheel of old iPods I remember it being exceptionally good, I could navigate those menus so quickly and tactilely, was game changing.
I owned all four generations of the Shuffle and loved them! Especially the 3rd gen because it was so small and the UX was so unique. Also, I loved working out with it. This video was a real treat! Thank you!
Minor correction:
iTunes' VoiceOver Kit installed Nuance Vocalizer voices for Windows. When synced with a Mac, Macintalk was used, unless songs in other languages were loaded, in which case, the Vocalizer voices were used.
I still miss that robotic version of Samantha, as we used that in iOS 3 and 4 on iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch (3rd Generation), and iPad.
my 4th gen broke recently after 10-11 years of every day use. I really miss it. I ride freestyle bmx and have broken a ton of phones in my pocket. it was the perfect solution for not having to worry about my phone while riding.
I got a 1. gen shuffle as a birthday gift when i was 8. I loved that thing and the battery extension pack was just amazing. In my remembrance those batteries lasted for ages. Unfortunately i don’t find it anymore. 😢
Me encanta ver la influencia del iPod en la historia, más videos así por favor Snazzy!
I recently picked up a sealed Shuffle on Ebay just for the earphones, because those earphones are way harder to find and I loved the sound from them.
I loved the 1st gen Shuffle but it struggled with some 256Kbps MP3's. It would skip or stop playing entirely. The tiny storage amount quickly became a problem as well. The subsequent generations were better but annoying due to the proprietary data cable, why they just didn't stick with the gum pack design was baffling. For now the Sansa Clip has been the only affordable mini player I can find. My phone struggles to play some FLAC files.
I highly believe the reason why the 3rd gen did not take off is not because people hated the in-line control, but because it did not look iconic as the other shuffles and wearing it is just like wearing a random pin on your shirt. When I had the 4th gen, I used the in-line control more often than the actual control buttons itself and it was the most convenient MP3 player at that era.
Just looked on my bookshelf as I knew I had a shuffle there, turns out I have a gen 2 silver shuffle that still works!
I still have the shuffle with no controls and ended up loving it. Used it for gym and just pressed play. That’s all it needed to do and it did it perfectly.
I really enjoyed this video! I never liked the no-screen, no-buttons concept of the iPod shuffle, but it's still super interesting to watch! I had an iPod Mini 4GB as well as iPod Nano and later the Touch and they were honesly really great devices.
My first iPod was the 2nd gen shuffle. I didn't have anything to compare it to, so I thought it was amazing. But, watching the nano reveal it literally took my breath away. It was a gasping moment. I bought it day 1 and it continues to be my favorite Apple product I've ever owned.
am I the only one that noticed he ate the gold shuffle 😂 18:22
I was so sad when I washed my 2nd gen iPod shuffle. Never even realized that was why my music sounded bad on it lol
You could tell it wasn't an Apple product because the sound quality was a marked improvement over the uselessly tinny iPod Mini. In fact, I preferred the sound of the Gen1 Shuffle over pretty much all of the iPods I owned before and after. Mine still works today and has, somehow, decent battery life.
OMG this is outstanding. I am one of those obsessed with the first Gen. I even learned how to replace the battery. Unfortunately my dog loved it as a chew toy. I got so angry at Apple, because of my horrible Windows iTunes experience and the lack of FLAC support that I abandoned all Apple products since. Android/Linux for me! I do hold grudges.
The shuffle 1st gen was my first iPod. Boy I felt old watching this video!
I remember saving up for what seemed forever leading up to the release of the shuffle. Hitched a ride with a friend to circuit city and purchased the 1GB model in 2005, to the heckling of my friend, but I didn’t care. It was the size of a pack of gum. And it sounded amazing. It was magic to me.
This is the most detailed video i’ve seen on the 1st gen shuffle. And yes, all of those accessories are were indeed real, and many shuffle users had them.
Interesting fact. The Sigmatel STMP3550, being the first all-in-one SOC as is mentioned here, also had two transistors for each channel in a “push pull” configuration, meaning that each channel could not only be driven with a positive voltage, but also be pulled to negative voltage as well.
This makes the 1st gen shuffle the only (and I do mean only) iPod that could perfectly and faithfully reproduce a square wave at 100% volume. All other iPod models used single-transistor amplifier output stages, leading to a “hump” shaped wave instead of a square wave when tested at maximum volume with a square wave file.
The duel-transistors per channel is what made the first gen shuffle able to faithfully reproduce full bass without any roll-off whatsoever. It is one of the most “musical” music players ever made, in my humble opinion.
Another perk of having this amplifier topology was that it could drive lower impedance headphones than all other ipod models without producing any distortion whatsoever. (there was a website back in the day that graphed all of this, but I can no longer find it)
I still have that 1GB shuffle, and use it often, along with 4 others I’ve acquired over the years second-hand. Because you can literally plug any set of headphones into that gumstick thingy, and it will drive them, and sound good. Very good, even with only with the supported lossy 320kbps codec’s.
The one I purchased from circuit city is still working after 19yrs, on the original battery, believe it or not. And it still plays for hours before needing to be recharged.
Idk. The first gen shuffle has a special place to me, because it was simple, easy, and sounded GOOD. Of course there were other music players that sounded good, and that used the STMP3550 SOC, but something about how apple packaged it and brought it to market had the magic that the other’s did not.
Great video! Cheers.
I still have mine, along with all Shuffles that came afterwards.The battery on the original is still good, but I don’t use it. Apple used to show it in promotional material next to a stick of gum with a warning: “Don’t eat the iPod Shuffle” 😂. I had the USB cradle, and used it for years afterwards on my desktop Mac as a general USB-hub for digital cameras and memory sticks, etc, I only stopped using it when USB-C devices became more ubiquitous. I didn’t bother with the AAA power lanyard, just the lanyard that came with the unit. Later that same year (2005), Apple collaborated with Motorola on the ROKR, which was basically an iPod Shuffle inside a cellphone, that was a couple of years before the iPhone changed everything.