Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
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Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
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#2I 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.
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#3No 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. Plus it always lets you access all your music, regardless of reception, data, record company politics or what you remembered to sync to your phone that week.
Anyone know a replacement?
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#4>> 10 year olds don't have MP3 collections like I did when I was a kid
I felt old at first but then I realized mp3's started getting really popular 15 years ago, then I felt old for sure.
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#5Kids whose parents will not buy them an iPhone + data plan. Next.
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#6The 240/320gb iPod Classics were insanely popular with DJs and other music folks until Apple cancelled them and still have a strong resale market.
While that may not constitute a viable commercial niche, it does suggest a use case among a tech savvy community.
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#7No 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…
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#8Some older relatives bought me a Shuffle for my birthday a couple of years ago. It actually turned out to be a good gift, because I was always afraid of losing my 100GB MP3 player when exercising or travelling.
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#9Kids whose parents will not buy them an iPhone + data plan. Next.
I would have expected that there were so many old off-contract iPhones floating around these days that they would have pretty much have destroyed the market for new iPods for the kids. I personally have two of them (plus an ancient 40GB iPod pre-classic). One I actually use for various purposes but the other would be a fine kid's iPod. Still, I guess there is enough demand for the scenario you describe.
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#10I have a few iTouches here for testing, kept at various iOS versions. Much cheaper than buying iPhones. Will probably pick up a new 6G soon, since the 5Gs are getting a bit long in the tooth, and no telling what iOS 9 will do to it.
I'm glad (and actually somewhat surprised) that Apple updated the line, rather than axing it. iPod Touch sales must be minuscule compared to iPhones.