Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model (macrumors.com) 14
As expected, Apple has added the seventh-generation iPod nano to its list of Vintage and Obsolete products, officially designating the last iPod in the iconic nano lineup as "vintage." MacRumors reports: The vintage products list features devices that have not been updated for more than five years and less than seven years. After products pass the seven year mark, they are considered obsolete. Apple debuted a refreshed version of the seventh-generation iPod nano in mid-2015, and that was the final iPod nano that came out. Now that the device is five years old, it is being added to the vintage list.
Apple launched the first iPod nano in September 2005, and over the course of the nano's lifetime, it got several redesigns. The first iPod nano model was similar in design to a standard iPod but with a slimmer, easier to pocket shape. Fast forward seven years to October 2020 and the seventh-generation iPod nano, which ended up being the final model that was introduced. It had an iPod touch-style multi-touch display and a Home button, but the nano and touch product lines were ultimately so similar that Apple did away with the iPod nano. [...] Devices on Apple's vintage list are able to receive hardware service from Apple and Apple service providers, but it is subject to the availability of repair components and where required by law. Obsolete products have no hardware service available with no exceptions.
Apple launched the first iPod nano in September 2005, and over the course of the nano's lifetime, it got several redesigns. The first iPod nano model was similar in design to a standard iPod but with a slimmer, easier to pocket shape. Fast forward seven years to October 2020 and the seventh-generation iPod nano, which ended up being the final model that was introduced. It had an iPod touch-style multi-touch display and a Home button, but the nano and touch product lines were ultimately so similar that Apple did away with the iPod nano. [...] Devices on Apple's vintage list are able to receive hardware service from Apple and Apple service providers, but it is subject to the availability of repair components and where required by law. Obsolete products have no hardware service available with no exceptions.
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Why? Are you homophobic or something? It's not like an iPod has a walled garden or anything.
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You still have to deal with iTunes. That's a good enough reason to use something else.
Re: I gave up buying Apple products... (Score:2)
33 years is 1987.
So you last used a Motorola running is 6?
Talk about running outdated information. So you don't know anything about powerpc, intel mac's,is 9 ,any version of OSX any version of the iPod, ipad, iphone, ios, etc.
Talk about an idiot. Obey you are running the same 386 with 2megs of ram and windows 3.0too
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hey, if it works for him...
iPod Classic (Score:3)
Not to give them any bad ideas, but I bet if they re-released the iPod Classic with a hard drive it would be a big hit. There would be audiophile idiots and nostalgic fools claiming it's better, just like people who are buying Vinyl nowadays.
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Ehhh.. Not likely. If you're going to bother with digital, then flash based media makes much more sense, since it is lower power (less digital noise) and silent operating. A hard drive falls flat on both counts. And today's flash densities makes the disk space advantage of a hard disk moot.
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Indeed, Lithium pouch batteries are the bees knees from the planned obsolescence engineering department.
I custom engineered my own portable FLAC player using a single AA and 4GB SDHC cards around that same time period. Like you, those old cards are still working perfectly after all these years. Even the same old AA rechargable NiMH's are still working great for days at a time running this thing.
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It's impossible to bring the iPod Classic back.
1.8" hard drives are pretty much obsolete - replaced by SSDs which are better in many ways. The tiny drives inside the iPod were not getting bigger due to physical limitations and flash storage was catching up rapidly.
It's why you see videos of people upgrading iPod classics with SSDs, because you can''t get (and you likely don't want) the hard disk. The SSD version gets you more storage takes less power and even though you have the complexity of an added circu
Still have mine! (Score:2)
I still have my tiny sixth generation (square) that I got for RMAing recalled wheeled iPod nano. I rarely used it though.
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I am in the very same boat.
First Gen Shuffle Still Shuffling! (Score:2)
Who cares if Apple says it's obsolete? If it still works, it's not. I have a B&W G3 which still works. Going further back, I have an Apple // that still works. I only wish some of my old floppies hadn't degaussed.