How the iPod Made Apple Relevant Again 

I loved my MiniDisc, but it didn't solve the problem of carrying lots of media with you. Despite it's small size, the disks were as, if not more bulky than the CDs they replaced. The real advantage was the ability to make digital mixtapes (albeit recorded in real-time from analogue sources on the early models). Needless to say I bought an iPod on day 1.

The walkman on a schoolbus made you the coolest kid ever.

@zapod20 I've got 8 Beatles albums on one standard MiniDisc in LP Mode. The 1GB Hi-MD can store even more than that and copy faster than real-time via USB and SonicStage on PC/Hi-MD Music Transfer on the Mac! Basically a mobile recording studio/MP3 player and digital mix tape machine all in one!

Yup, and yet they sounded mid. I was expecting to be blown away by the sound quality when I first put them on like, damn these are the coveted ipod headphones?

Everybody in my school had an iPod but i couldn't cuz I was poor. Seeing people with iPods made me feel even poorer

That’s from the Simpson’s apple episode. Lisa couldn’t afford an iPhone so she just bought some white earphones. They were called iPhonies 😂 the company was called Mapple and was led by a guy named Steve Mobs and lived in an underwater lair

Pre-iPod mp3 players.

Unless you had tried better and knew the sound was shit

Me too. God we’re getting old.

@@zachsteiner we are bro 😆 we’re already old

I bought one of these and loved it. They were even more skip-proof than regular discmans because the files were way smaller so more ‘song’ could be held in the buffer

Same here. I was walking to elementary school with a Walkman, then drove to high school with a discman, then upgraded to MP3 discman, after witnessing it at a friend's place. Total game changer! When MP3 Players became widely available (I never had the money for an iPod), I was so happy. I'm still using one to this day, but will probably switch to full time streaming soon. What a ride.

Omg that brings back memories of burning my first cd with mp3s from lime wire or Napster and having it work on my round cd player. Lol and then edit the tracks so they showed up on the display was sweet.

I had a mini did that would play mp3s it was ace

Hahaha I remember my mp3 disc player. Such an awesome unit. It had like 13s anti-skip so could survive the bouncy school bus ride without missing a beat. I still remember my main mix CD. For some reason I put Linkin Park (which was my favourite because I was an edgy 13 year old with depression) right in the middle so always ended up having to skip to track 54 before I could play it.

So true

There were literally thousands that grew up without it before and it really wasn't even the first or best, just the most well-known.

Now kids just use their parents old phones rather than buying even an iPod touch.

not really surprising when you think of people outside the US or Australia or Europe. only one person in my life has ever had an ipod

​@@VariantAECmore like millions grew up with it

I think dankpods is to blame

Within the last 5 years I’ve been slowly collecting a few, their accessories and cases. Models I’ve always wanted but didn’t have the means to afford them in my teens.

One word - dankpods

I still believe an iPod Classic with an expanded battery because of the extra space given by a microSD storage adapter to replace the tiny hdd is one of the best things. Rockbox optional.

Good luck

Dude I just bought a black one off ebay to relive the magic and it's still awesome. One of the best models.

I still have my Nano 3rd Gen which my dad bought for me in 2007. And it still works.

@@galwitprifor001 Lucky.

Thanks for this comment. I remember my 16th birthday gift was an iPod, I really enjoyed using that device, especially playing Klondike on it. I remember buying albums burning them to my laptop and syncing them on iTunes. There was no greater feeling than just taking a long stroll and listening to music.

I had both the classic 80GB unfortunately dropped it and was a goner. My ipod nano was a beast, had music and paired with the nike sensor I could log my runs, then sync the data with my pc to the Nike website. I miss those days. This was pre smart phones, having the ability to record runs digitally was mind blowing for me.

Lemme check if this comment gonna exist

Still exists

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The iPod had 5gb of storage. Really that was amazing. There were netbooks 10 years later that only had 4gb. And my current $1500 iPhone only has 256gb. That’s not much of a jump in 20 years. Yes there is a massive speed improvement with tiny storage though.

Competition between apple & android users is good for consumers. If Apple didnt exist, we wouldn't have so many things rn.

Speak for yourself my Motorola android has 256 gigs then I added a 512gig SD........between my phone📱and removable storage I have over 10,000 songs because I hate streaming.

​@@mankind8088Same Why would i pay for music

Boy would that have been a snafu. Makes the forced WWF rebranding to WWE seem like child's play.

scummy company

Such a wasted opportunity to rebrand the company to orange.

​@@X_manoOr Grape... Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

While true, the difference might be indistinguishable for the vast majority of crappy earbuds.

The audio quality was amazing. Especially if you are willing to use Apple Lossless compression. A lot fewer songs but worth it to me.

Have you seen the APPLE Vision Pro? Apple is only innovating more now!

I'm not an Apple fan boy by any means, but honestly, I'm glad Apple pushed wireless earbuds onto the market. One of the most annoying things was having to deal with tangled earphone wires and if wireless earbuds can (and they do) provide the same quality sound, then I'm all for it. 3.5 mm jack would barely ever be used by people who have wireless earbuds. I say this as someone who was initially very critical of removing the jack in the first place. If you're going to complain about anything, it should be repaireability and easily replaceable batteries. The latter is particularly important given iPhones tend to last very long, and often, their batteries are the bottleneck in longevity. Sadly, that trend was there from the beginning with Apple.

4rd?

@@theheadguy1212 meant to write 4th but was thinking 3rd.

What ever happened to creative? I miss that company Microsoft trying with the Zune, lol, but they couldn't touch the igod

Are you an AAPL investor?

Do you mean soothing voice?

​@@danmar007lool

@@danmar007 yes! Sorry, english is my third language

I also remember the supply shortages of the mini. Those were fun times, and anticipation was authentic. You really could not get a mini outside of the USA for a while. Insane.

Greatest album ever. That album got me into hip hop.. Was playing holla at me the other day.

Creative, Microsoft all tried and failed. No one could take down the igod.

That is usually from bad usb power supplies. And still happens today. Especially with unbranded power supplies. There are other possible reasons too. My new surface tablet shocked the heck out of me. They sent me a new power supply and the problem went away.

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​@@ecospider5 Its also called static electricity and bad HW design. I never was shocked by my Game Boy or GBA but later on with newer devices like PSP and PS Vita I remembered to ground myself before plugging in because they used less plastic and had more places to contact metal. I think even the 3DS got me once so its not a manufacturer thing as much as a new manufacturing process most companies follow now a days. Thing is being zapped by an Apple product was considered normal... its not. Even considering how uncommon being zapped by PSP, PS Vita, 3DS and some other portable devices was most portable devices *DO NOT* zap users ever when they plug their devices in and that is normal and right. Thinking back to it noe I think after around 2010 the focus on thin and light designs many manufacturers even good ones really cut certain corners when it came to keeping people from accidentally becoming the ground terminal for their portable devices. Unfortunately, most laptops regardless of brand zap users if they're not careful these days.

You could probably run an old version of iTunes in a virtual machine

@@mattbennett1557 True, but I might leave it to my future grandkids to figure out. We have an original Sony Walkman, a first-generation iPad, and a Playstation 1 stuffed in the third drawer down.

It’s still fully supported in Apple Music, you just need a USB-C to FireWire adaptor and it will find it and allow you to sync songs to it.

Tech was great in general, I live in Eastern Europe, In 2006 as a kid i bough small mp3 player with 2GB memory for 20$, i remember thinking how 20$ was a lot of money 😅

I totally agree. Everyone beats up on Apple as an elitist platform, but in reality it's anything but. While they didn't invent the smart watch, smart phone, the digital music player, the tablet, or the personal computer, they certainly made them ubiquitous and upped the game in quality. If left to Microsoft, Google and others, they would all be ho-hum, clunky and hard-to-use. Excellence costs money. Putting a micro-drive inside an iPod and a touch screen on an iPhone was a risky and expensive proposition. Yet Apple's street prices at the time, $399 for an iPod and $300 for an iPhone, for instance, they were incredibly low considering all the advanced technologies packed into them. This lead to a huge market of more affordable competitors that wouldn't have existed otherwise. Android wouldn't exist as we know it today if Apple didn't take the risk in R&D.