Reviewing Every iPod Ever - 20 Years of Apple iPod (Documentary) 

Update: As of May 10th, 2022, the iPod touch has been officially discontinued, marking the official death of the iPod line. I've done a video on it, just a quick retrospective: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JWGuvImahts.html

The music, the presentation, the voice. This channel feels underrated for how good it truly is. I wish more people knew about your videos. I'm glad I found this channel.

great stuff josh. Basically a whole movie to celebrate the iPod 😳

1:54:38 there's nothing like watching a 2 hours documentary about the iPod and finding your own concept at the end lmao, glad you liked it! I agree that it's REALLY unlikely we'll ever see a new iPod, but it was fun to make that concept, btw I've been following your channel for a while and this was definitely one of your best videos, keep up the good work!

I was NOT expecting to watch a 2 hour video about the 20 year history of iPod… But here I am after watching the entire video. Wow, I’m truly impressed and just subscribed to your channel! Great work!!😎🙏🏽

I'm blown away by how well this was done. Josh graduated from RU-vidr to straight up documentarian.

This video is going to be a masterpiece I can already tell just by the intro

*Happy dankpod noises

I watched this documentary twice and love to go back into the nostalgia of this beautiful piece of dying tech. Seeing the 4th gen iPod always brings tears to my eyes. It takes me back to such a great part of my life. We can’t let its history die. Great doc my man, and I’ve been doing a project of collecting the old iPods. And creating a frame to place all them in. Thanks for telling us about eoe!

Looks like 91 techs magnum opus video. I can tell a LOT of love went into this. Thanks Josh. I truly love your videos!

I worked at Circuit City during the iPod heyday before the iPhone. Selling iPods was probably 80% of my daily job duties. People were constantly coming in asking for it. It was a fun time and I miss it.

Amazing video josh you seem like a really genuine guy who just wants to share their passion with everybody! Out of all the youtubers who keep on looking at the future and the present, you're one of the few that looks, embraces, and remembers the past, and its so amazing!

Whoa I gotta buckle up for this one. Dude you’re killing it

Wow a 2 hour documentary for the iPod is overkill! This is gonna be great knowing its from 91Tech!

@1:04:23 The original iPod Nano - IMO the most elegant, attractive design and true click wheel. Sigh, loved it but it was replaced before I could get one (was a poor student at the time, tho a friend got me the 3rd Gen iPod w touch buttons) and I never warmed to the look of the aluminum iPod Nanos that looked just like mini minis. RIP OG Nano!

I notice IPod Touch Seventh Generation has mostly been disappeared from Apple's website now, possibly eliminating it - an amazing history of an epic market defining product - thanks for this well researched and produced YT documentary on the history of it. :)

My Gen 1 was supposed to arrive today in the mail. It would've made for a great iPod day!

My dad still uses his gen 1 ipod nano. Always used a case so its unscratched and the wheel is still soft. Nothing has justified an upgrade, its never broken, and the battery still works. Its still a decent lightweight mp3 player 15 years later.

LOVE the 3rd gen iPod. I got it 18 years ago today for Christmas. I was 17, it was a 10gb model, and cost my mom 299 before tax so needless to say it was the only gift I got. I love that button arrangement. I don't hate any other design but the 3rd gen will always be my favorite. I had the inline remote as well and it was very useful. It had a clip so you could attach it to your shirt or jacket.

Outstanding video, loved this! Enjoyed the longer style video a lot!

This incredible art piece you have created documenting such a huge monumental 20 yrs for Apple has brought me so many feelings. I was born in 97, so I grew up right in the middle of the Steve Jobs Era for Apple. As a young tech enthusiast during that time, Apple captivated me and I fell in love immediately. I still remember the day I got my first Apple product and that was the iPod Nano 4th gen. Then exactly 1 yr later I upgrade to the 5th gen with the camera. I couldn’t get enough. There is just something about Apple that continues to captivate me still to this day, and I believe that is the fact that Steve Jobs still lives on throughout every product that is released. Steve was an incredible man, stubborn at times, but incredible. He’s an inspiration to me everyday. I am a huge Apple Fanboy now and an even bigger tech enthusiast and that’s is thanks to Steve. He changed my life. I know I’m rambling again this point, busy I just want to say thank you. You’ve made my heart so happy with this video. Thank you thank you thank you!!

I already know this video is going to be Amazing. Keep up the good work, josh!

Thank you for sharing this , we had some much back them even Limewire , MySpace and so on thanks again

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Really, really solid video. I hadn't though much about my ipods from...oh 15 years or so ago in a long time, but this video made me pretty nostalgic for them. You should be really proud of making a two hour video that still managed to feel concise the whole way through. Keep up the good work.

Josh, this video is insane, literally Netflix documentary quality. I hope you make more of these!!

I’m super blown away by this documentary it gave a nice insight in the history and the little oddities of the iPod and Apple in general. It was really nostalgic and just superb i especially liked the clips where Steve is talking. This documentary really touched me and showed me again what an interesting, innovative and special person Steve Jobs really was. RIP Steve

Since Apple is doing the lossless music thing, iPod definitely could have a big return as the only device that doesn’t require any additional amp or dac to play lossless audio. Add a 1/4”and a 2.5mm jack, better built-in dac and bigger battery, USBC, an iPod Pro is definitely possibly (I’m not an audiophile nor have a pro music player, so I’m likely getting something wrong here).

I feel like Steve would have did something new to the iPod and wouldn’t have given up on it!

this video is about to hit the algorithm. 1 million views in no time

I gotta say, thank you so much for doing this. For years I wanted the complete tale of the Ipod but no one ever stepped into the challenge. It was alway the years before the release of the first one or just focusing on specific models like the Classic, Touch or Nano and I always knew that there where tons on information missing, but here it is, someone finally made the video that I always wanted. You've just won a new sub and by taking a look at your content, some binge watching is on it's way as well!

Here in 2023, I still use a 3rd gen Nano daily. I'm pretty far from being an Apple fanboy, but this nugget is an amazing marriage of design and technology, and I still get a decent battery life out of it. I wish Apple were still a responsible company and produced stuff that stand the test of time.

the best documentary video about iPod and i still use iPod Classic 6th gen. it’s awesome for me...

This deserves so many more views

Very well done! This video was almost 2 hours and I was thoroughly entertained the whole time and can’t even say that about most movies.

Wow! That was so much fun to watch! I’m going to go to EOE and buy a U2 iPod like the one that was stolen from my office. It was my favorite possession at the time.

That b-roll scene with the iPod sitting on top of the pre-special edition Star Wars VHS tapes got me. My childhood and young adulthood wrapped up into one picture... Edit: Just got to the end, and THANK YOU for pointing me to the EOE website! That is awesome!

Steve really cared about pricing. He knew to reduce for the iPhone 3G. They were a bit pricy but not too much out of reach in contrast to what apple has become nowadays.

The iPod really changed the music world and I have so many great memories with it from the 4th Gen to the the 6th and even using an old iPhone 2G as an iPod touch back in 2008. Now iPods are back thanks to DankPods (though now he expanded to headphones and other MP3 players).

This truly is the most detailed video on the iPod and the sate of Apple during the era of the iPod.

this is a really awesome video. so thorough. I have so much respect as I know how much editing is involved in making a 2 hour video... so much love & hard work went into this. I'm an iPod lover since 2005 and my 5th Gen Classic is still working to this day. thanks for the heads up about Elite Obsolete!!

That was excellent!! Wow, watched to the end. Please, do more like this! Great work Josh!

What I have come to realize with tech youtubers is that there are 2 kinds, one from whom you learn a lot, regardless of the subject, and others that ramble a lot but at the end you learn little or nothing... I could feel it but I couldn't tell what was different between them. Recently I understood, the ones from whom you learn a lot are those that know a lot about the history of technology. And you are one of them Josh.... Other youtubers review old tech, some even more often than you, but they don't know half of the stuff you do about history. As someone who is also passionate about the history of tech I can tell you that you videos are very enjoyable....and that's even more amazing coming from someone who has less than half my age....

I know I'm late but I just got my first 120gb classic iPod. And this brilliant vid has made me appreciate it more

Absolutely fantastic video! LOVED all the hands on of each iPod. Definitely making me want to go buy iPods now. Also I think the length is perfect, 2 hours is a good documentary as this was. Keep up the great work!

Jobs was great in those events, had good humor.

One of the best documentary about iPod I've come across! Great job!

It’s hard to believe that 2 decades have passed since this revolutionary device launched

I figured you’d make a video to commemorate the iPod anniversary, but you went and made a feature-length documentary! I think you did a great job, and the effort you put in was a great tribute to what really was a key moment in Apple and technology history. No iPod would have meant no iPhone and no Apple as we know it today. Heck, the company might not have even existed anymore by 2021. Kudos on a great video.

This documentary is literally the best about the iPod on the internet. Its like ColdFusion video editing level! Thank you for uploading such a remarkable video.

My first handheld device was a lime green 4th gen shuffle in 2011, which my mom accidentally lost a year later. To replace it, my parents gave me a iphone 4 (no sim) a year later, which lasted as my frontline device until 2016 when I got an iPod touch 6. At that time, it was an amazing device, and it lasted me until late 2017 when I replaced it with a iPhone 6s, both of which I still have

Amazing video, probably your best one I've seen! I can't believe I watched it all trough when I wanted to only take a little peek in it. Just shows how good of a youtuber you are and also of course how the story of Steve Jobs changed the world...

I watched at 360p because I couldn't wait. Love it. Great job, I was really excited for this and I am not disappointed.

That was great! Josh, you did a fantastic job. Loved how long it was and I really loved the awesome 20min primer before even getting to the 1st gen iPod.

Really appreciated the time and effort put into this video, very well thought out and very interesting to see the iPods story. Even though the Apple Watch is a fairly new product especially compared to the iPod that you did in this video, I would love to see a long in-depth explainer about the Apple Watch I understand it will definitely take some time to produce. If you see this Josh, thank you for taking the time to read my comment and to consider my consideration for a future video! Keep up the great work as always Josh!

What? Was it almost 2 hours??? I didn’t even notice that as I watched it all! Wow! Really well made video!

This is great video man…. Always enjoy watching your ways of reviewing…. ❤️

Why the F would someone dislike this! I appreciate the effort Josh and really enjoyed this! Props to you

This is one heck of a definitive iPod content and more! Congratulations! 'Twas a long one but I watched it entirely and loved every bit of it.

Best video you’ve ever made, easily

That was an amazing video, well done!. I watched the entire 2hrs and did not look away from the TV once.

Really great video, I’ve been subbed for awhile and I rarely comment but I really enjoy your personality and content! Love your videos 👍🏽

I still have and use my very first Apple product, a 1st-gen Nano... and I also got a second-hand 3rd-gen Nano last year. My 3rd-gen Touch was kindly bequeathed to my older brother (so he'd stop using a WALKMAN) and still works

Why did you change the thumbnail

Not mentioning the Creative Zen series, the Creative Jukebox or the Archos Gmini400/402 makes it seem like the iPod was ahead of the curve at all times and further ahead of the curve, when the actually were. When the iPod photo came out, I was already watching movies on my very pocketable Archos Gmini 400 it felt like the future. Regarding the shuffle, it was about 3 years late to it's party. The MuVo series of players provided a better experience years earlier and around the same price bracket and size.

Glad have made it though the whole 2hrs, what a fascinating journey! 20yrs seems like nothing in life terms, this made it fly by all the more! Great research and production.

Thanks for taking the time to make something on this scale. Perfect blend of interesting and historical. Keep it up.

This is a fascinating documentary, keep up the great work!

So well done putting this all together. It did take some time to get through it but I really enjoyed it.

Incredibly entertaining and informative video! Fantastic work!

So much great information here, thank you!

This is fantastic! Great work.

"Voiceover" on the iPod Shuffle was actually a Beta test for an Accessibility feature that would eventually find it's way to the iPhone

absolutely the best project you've ever done and fully worth the wait, josh. absolutely incredible retrospective!

Dude, this was EPIC. I don’t think i have ever spent 2 hours watching a single RU-vid video. Subscribed to you and i see that you’re also Canadian! Awesome man

Wonderful video. A great tribute to Steve and the iPod 👏🏻

This is a massive retrospective. Thanks for the good work and u make it so interesting to watch and listen to

This video is a big step up compared to some of the other content on the channel, I can tell you've put a lot of work into this one, I hope to see more stuff like this in the future

I feel fortunate to have lived through that period in Apple's growth. It was really something. It was such an exciting time! Steve Jobs' keynotes were always an event that you had to experience. He really made the people excited by the new products coming out. Apple's marketing today is a bit too slick and polished and doesn't have that same feeling. Great video!

Thank you for making such an appreciative video of Apple and Jobs. Apple is my favourite company and I love the iPod and still use one now! Keep up the great work!❤️

Damn Good. Excellent production. As an iPod fan I really learned quite a bit. I also have hope that they will re-intoduce a new generation of the iPod Classic. Maybe in 2025 when form & function catches up with nostalgia... I appreciate the sacrifice in time and effort it took to make this film. Well Done!

Absolutely fantastic video, you seriously deserve more subscribers and attention.

Amazing content dude! You’ve come a long way.

Fantastic video! 🤩 It’s the best video I’ve seen on the history of iPod so far! I’m really looking forward to your next videos!

My grandpa still uses his iPod shuffle to this day. He loves cycling, and it’s the perfect size to take on a bicycle!

All I can say about this video is WOW 😮 awesome video kept me glued to screen great masterpiece good job truly enjoyed watching it and did not mind that it was long I hope that you make another masterpiece like this soon

This is one of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched. Keep up with good work!

Thank you for making this.

An absolutely brilliant video, unimaginable that this is available for free! Great video!

I love long form stuff like this. We definitely need more

This is the kind of content I was looking for. Subscribed.

This video was awesome! Commenting for engagement because I would love more long form videos like this! Great Work - Cheers!

This was an awesome watch, really enjoyed it and picked up a few bits along the way. I actually still use my iPod, got a 5th gen way back in 2006, its had new screens and batteries galore, even a solid state storage upgrade.

2 hours documnetary? Let's go!

Hello! My wife and I we have LG, Sony, Samsung, Element, Skyworth and Vizio in the house right now. We enjoy all of them for what they proffer. I find myself studying my purchases now before pulling the trigger but when we have settled on the television that we want we get tunnel vision. Only you and your family have to watch and enjoy your purchases. So follow your heart! Keep up the good work.

That was awesome. Really, I don’t have much else to say. It was so well put together and I was engaged the entire time. Thank you for creating this, really thank you.

Fantastic video. Thank you.

Honestly if this video was a Netflix feature documentary I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Great effort put into this for an amazing video

Wow Josh. This is an incredible video. Thanks for this! Mad props to you!!

REALLY well made docu. Great job :)