The last iPod to come out of Apple dates from 2019 and by then it was obvious that it was the last. Changes in the way of consuming media led to this inevitable path, not only streaming, but today owning a phone with the same capabilities offered by an iPod is cheap. In this post we tell you some of the reasons why it will disappear.
The iPod had been in Apple’s product catalog for 20 years, but the streaming music of Apple Music and the improvement of devices such as the iPhone or the Apple Watch have ended up making it become a background. Precisely because of this, the Cupertino company has chosen not to manufacture more models of its iconic product. One of the reasons is that Apple has opted for streaming, and today, Apple Music gives access to more than 90 million songs and more than 30,000 playlists. Nothing to do with the first figures of the first model of the iPod, but those were other times when it was already considered a great advance to be able to carry music in your pocket. As Steve Jobs said on the day of its presentation, he described it as “an MP3 player that has CD-quality music” and added that the best thing “is that your entire music library fits in your pocket”
The iPod was by far one of the great ideas that hit it big long before the iPhone came out. It was launched in October 2001, and was changing a lot in both capacity and technology, becoming the prelude to the iPhone. the first iPod, It was the first MP3 player to have a capacity for a thousand songs and autonomy for ten hours of listening. It went from versions with micro-HDD to flash memory, with screen and without screen, with dial and without dial, until the 2019 model that not only had a great processor but was practically the same as an iPhone but without 4G, the only thing that was really missing.
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After a statement in which they explained that they were not going to sell more, shortly after the closure of the product’s website was announced, which means that it will no longer be possible to buy more. For this reason, many of their stocks have already sold out in most countries. In some domains, such as the United States, you will still be able to open the purchase website, but all models are out of stock, making it impossible to complete the purchase.
If you are looking for one of these iPods, you still have hope: you will have to tour authorized dealers (Your warehouses might still have some of those iPods) or unofficial stores that still have some. Hurry up, because it seems that they will not take long to disappear completely. In online stores, one of the best options is to buy it on Amazon for 239 euros, and deliveries are already extended to 1-2 months. It would not be surprising if it is a temporary measure before withdrawing the product permanently.
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