End of part of the iPod era

@KDemo

If they had added wifi audible sync and Bluetooth to the Nano I prob would have bought one. Simplicity with no iTunes. V and no need to look at the screen to operate it.

Bit actual the smartphone just ate the iPod. If l one people own a weekday phone many of them can’t see the point of a second device.

And the iPod touch is mostly bought nowadays by parents for for kids isn’t it? And then later the kid gets a real smartphone?

@KDemo I don’t think it’s fair to attribute this move to greed. I find it extremely plausible that there simply wasn’t enough of a market for one or both of those devices in our increasingly smartphone driven world to justify their continued existence. The entire iPod line has suffered at the hands of the iPhone with sales peaking in 2008 with 54.83 million units shipped globally and declining rapidly since, Apple hasn’t reported iPod sales figures since 2014 (a good sign that they weren’t good) but 2014’s figure was just 14.38 million sales down from 2013’s 26.38 million. That’s a 45.5% decline year over year and if we extrapolate from there it’s quite plausible that 2015 could have been somewhere in the 7 million unit range, 2016 at 3.8 million, and so on. Bear in mind that these are global sales figures across all iPod lines inclusive of the iPod Touch.

Wow, @jbartus, you sure have all the numbers. Thanks so much for correcting me.

@KDemo sorry for making a fact based argument instead of an emotional one?

@jbartus I tried to read your fact based argument but it turned into blah blah blah. So I’m sticking with @kdemos theory.

@jbartus I’d be afraid, if I used my phone for everything, that when I actually needed to use it as a phone, there’s be no battery power and I wouldn’t have an external battery handy. I still think of my phone as a phone first and everything else second. I guess I go against the trend.

@sammydog01 statistics demonstrating a staggering year-over-year decline in sales is ‘blah blah blah’? Interesting.

@Kidsandliz relevance? I never said anything about how people use their phones or should use their phones etc. O.o

Facts are fine, @jbartus, it’s all in the delivery and intent.
It’s not a winning trait to simply spout facts to prove someone wrong. This seems to happen very often with you, and it is very off-putting to me. A little humility or humor would go a long way.

Remember that we all have Google if we’re interested in facts. You can’t find humanity there.

@jbartus All I was doing is talking about me and my use of a phone, no one else, so why I’d still use an ipod. That is how it was relevant to this conversation.

Well gee mistah @KDemo , I’s so sorry suh that I provided actual statistics to back up mah position that Apple probably had valid reason for dropping the lines. I’ll be sure to go an’ post mah positions in the future without supportin’ em so as not to offend yah.

In all seriousness, blow it out your ass. People were talking about the likelihood that the Nano had reached the end of its days as early as three years ago, yeah I used a quick search to retrieve the actual statistics to flesh out the post but for people who bother to pay attention to the technology sector the writing’s been on the wall for a while now.

I’m sorry for bringing actual facts to light instead of just lighting up the torches and grabbing a pitchfork to blindly spitroast Apple. Hell, I don’t even particularly like Apple as a company, but at least I bother to do a modicum of research on a topic before drawing a conclusion and spouting off. Clearly you can’t say the same. If you don’t like it, tough shit, I find your attitude ‘off-putting’. You’re the one running their mouth without a leg to stand on, where’s your humility?

Done here.

@f00l

@Barney. Wake up now. I know your have the internet in Kansas.

Obviously it would have been better with some purple

Commentary please.

Also a pic of that purple Sansa of yours might be nice.

@f00l I don’t know noth’n about iPods. My purple Sansa looks like this.

I’m taking very good care of it 'cause it might be the last of its kind.

@narfcake

I know. But they were and are beautiful.

So I will kinda miss them.

@eeterrific

I would love to see sansas or iPod classics or iPod nanos for sale here.

/image sansa

@f00l Sansa

@heartny
I went for the GOT Sansa image on purpose. But thx for the pix of the relevant image.

@f00l I was going to post this picture anyway, so this seemed like a good spot

@eeterrific I love my little BLUE Sansa Clip! [on the left in the picture above]

@darkzrobe I really like my brown Zune. Wooted it years ago.
Battery doesn’t last as long as it used to, though.

@2many2no If you can find a new battery: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Zune+30+GB+Battery+Replacement/1230
I’d point you to a parts site but I don’t want to imply they’ll be any good as I’ve never used any of them.

Also in case you didn’t know: https://www.google.nl/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2006/12/18/zunes-secret-shutdown-extends-battery-life/amp/

@2many2no @alphapeaches Holy crap the battery is small for that one.

I need to swap mine out again but I hate soldering and I fear giving it permadeath.

@darkzrobe My husband loves his Zune! I don’t know what he’ll do when it dies, he doesn’t like new fangled gadgets. He can solder though.

@daveinwarsh

They already have shown up here, several times.

Google search.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:meh.com+Turntable&cad=h

@daveinwarsh That looks just like my patented, combination, crank-operated pencil sharpener and pizza cutter briefcase. Spitting image.

@ACraigL My battery never lasted for more than 6-8 hours of playing at a times [although that’s a lot of wood splitting and my back appreciated the break needed to charge it].

I just looked at Amazon’s current prices- wow- over a hunny now- the newer ones are way cheaper…

@ACraigL - That is so funny! Heard this story on NPR today, about parents smuggling phones into their kid’s stuff when they go to camp. One even stitched a phone into a stuffed animal.

@SSteve

I have a bunch of stuff I like to keep around on the iPod classic permanently so that I don’t have to interact with iTunes.

The classic is still a lovely device.

I do take classic with me, but often it’s not charged.

Liked you, I fell into the podcast rabbit warren.

Once again I need to double the number of hours in the day.

@f00l Yeah, my latest find is The Next Track. It hits the intersection of my music nerdery and tech nerdery right in the sweet spot. I’m listening to a slew of back episodes and getting way behind on Judge John Hodgman, Spilled Milk, Ask Me Another, Song Exploder, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and The Memory Palace. I gave up on keeping up with All Songs Considered and In Our Time long ago.

A fifteen minute commute to work is great, but doesn’t give much time for podcast listening. I can listen to music while I program but not talking so I can’t do podcasts at work.

@SSteve Hah. I’ve managed to clear off some free space on my phone. No more being out of room for things, no more having to constantly delete –

Oh.

@SSteve I still miss the iPod classic. If there had been some kind of trend toward bulkier clothing with more pockets, maybe I would still carry one…

I’m baffled by the steps forward-steps backward progression of interfaces between humans and technology, that have been the norm as long as I’ve been alive. It’s getting to the point where I’ll start yelling at passers-by, unprompted, “this isn’t progress!”

Then again, when I was a kid, there was never an impossible thing I wanted more than a pocket computer.

@InnocuousFarmer

I don’t know when you were a kid but did you ever have a calculator watch?

Stephen Colbert (I think it was he) gave one of these to the Dalai Lama as a gift.

(recently )

@f00l I don’t think I had one, but I think I wanted one. Might have been a little late… 90s or so.

I did have a Timex sports watch of some kind with one or two PDA-like features. It could download data from computers via the CRT flashing patterns onscreen. (It didn’t work once we switched to LCDs.)

@ilyashap

I’ve used them. They can be lifesavers in certain situations.

If you connect a device to these alt programs, you might wind up corrupting the database on the device under some scenarios.

I will use these to get stuff off an iPod but not to sync/add files/manage, etc.

@callow You’re a good parent. I would have kept the cash.

@sammydog01
@callow

Both of them ought to be worth something.

@ACraigL
I really wanted the iriver at one time. (the combo)

But I already had an iPod. Could not justify.