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Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
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#12I do because I far prefer the Android experience for a "daily driver" but having access to iOS is valuable as a "tech" person. Plus, iOS is streets ahead for podcasts. The author said they "never saw that in practice" so just wanted to be a single data point here.. maybe this is far less likely outside of a tech/fomo audience.
I appreciate your use of the term "streets ahead", I wish it were more popular in the States.
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#13No mention of the iPod classic. I guess not many people bought them. I absolutely love my classic. It has every song instantly accessible wherever I am. I use it every single day. It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, but the reward is a far more permanent collection of music and playlists which acts almost as a time capsule for your emotions. Plu…
Nowadays you can get that easily in flash (e.g., 128 GB microSDXCs for 80 USD), so an MP3 player with a slot and exFAT support?
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#14No mention of the iPod classic. I guess not many people bought them. I absolutely love my classic. It has every song instantly accessible wherever I am. I use it every single day. It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, but the reward is a far more permanent collection of music and playlists which acts almost as a time capsule for your emotions. Plu…
I use Apollo + most of my music library on my 64GB sd card in my s4. I have 105GB of music total, so I just put my most played stuff on my phone. I push update it from Clementine.
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#15No mention of the iPod classic. I guess not many people bought them. I absolutely love my classic. It has every song instantly accessible wherever I am. I use it every single day. It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, but the reward is a far more permanent collection of music and playlists which acts almost as a time capsule for your emotions. Plu…
> It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection,
There's not even that much curating needed with modern storage capacity. SD cards are cheap, large, and so the only limit is how long I wait for FLACs to transcode down to AACs.
> Plus it always lets you access all your music, regardless of reception, data, record company politics
Exactly. I can't fathom why people are so in love with relying on so many unreliable parts to listen to music.
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#16The best iPod was discontinued immediately. It's square with a screen on it, this one:
http://www.zdnet.com/i/story/61/18/017591/zdnet-ipod-nano-si...
Giant clip dominates the back, just large enough of a screen to choose or control music, and just enough space to store way more than I need.
I travel a lot, it's great to have a separate music device. I can listen to music and not have to worry where my phone is. I can clip it onto my clothes while I'm falling asleep in a hostel or whatever. Actually I clip it to my clothes all the time.
I don't understand why it wasn't more popular. I still use it.
I also don't understand why anyone wants to use their phone as a music player. The idea of that sounds needlessly awkward and they'll fill their device's HD up with largely useless music.
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#17Why don't people get it? They are ipods. Besides the ipod touch, they are bought to play music.
If I would use my phone to play music the battery would be dead by noon.
If it rains while im on a run, I only risk 120€ not 500-900€.
Not to mention that an ipod is WAY lighter (12.5-31g) compared to a smartphone (130g). Which makes it less iritating when you carry it in your pocket.
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#18No mention of the iPod classic. I guess not many people bought them. I absolutely love my classic. It has every song instantly accessible wherever I am. I use it every single day. It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, but the reward is a far more permanent collection of music and playlists which acts almost as a time capsule for your emotions. Plu…
I also love my classic (actually and iPod Video). Bought in 2004, the battery has long since died and it lives permanently on its dock. I sincerely wish I could either replace the battery or the whole device with a 200gb beast in the same form factor. I know I could get one used, but the difficulty of servicing them makes that less attractive.
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#19No mention of the iPod classic. I guess not many people bought them. I absolutely love my classic. It has every song instantly accessible wherever I am. I use it every single day. It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection, but the reward is a far more permanent collection of music and playlists which acts almost as a time capsule for your emotions. Plu…
> It's a shame there's no standout replacement.
I felt the same way for a very long time, and still have both an iPod Video and Classic to prove it, but what's done it for me is a data plan way bigger than I need and iTunes Match. Obviously that fails to meet one very specific requirement - offline availability - but I do keep a decent subset synced to my iPhone for offline listening, which itself is pretty rare. If anything, I prefer the iPhone's interface for finding stuff deep in my library since I can just type out the name of a track or ask Siri to play it.
Re: Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
#20The best iPod was discontinued immediately. It's square with a screen on it, this one: http://www.zdnet.com/i/story/61/18/017591/zdnet-ipod-nano-si... Giant clip dominates the back, just large enough of a screen to choose or control music, and just enough space to store way more than I need. I travel a lot, it's great to have a separate music device. I can listen to music and not have to worry where my phone is. I ca…
The Nanos from the mid-2000s were pretty solid. I think I still have an 4GB one somewhere that worked the last time I looked.
Perfect for taking to the gym or hiking. An updated version with the same specs would probably be too cheap to produce now, with Flash so dramatically cheaper. Could you build one for $20?