{"id":4868,"date":"2022-05-11T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2022-05-11T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:25:00","slug":"apple-discontinuing-ipod-after-21-years-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/apple-discontinuing-ipod-after-21-years-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple discontinuing iPod after 21 years run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPod was a massive game changer when it released. I love music and when the iPod 2nd gen released I was using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rio-600-Digital-Audio-Player\/dp\/B00004SPUN\">Rio mp3 player<\/a> that had 32 MB of storage which meant that I could put ~8 songs on it. So everyday I would decide what 8 songs I wanted to listen to that day and copied them over. It was annoying but still amazing because I didn&#8217;t have to carry multiple cassettes\/CD&#8217;s around. <\/p>\n<p>Then I was gifted the iPod 2nd Gen by my sister and brother-in-law and suddenly I could store up 16GB of music (~3,500 songs). I no longer had to decide which songs I wanted to carry around, as I could copy all of them. It was a game changer and I used it constantly till about 2012\/13 when the battery died and I couldn&#8217;t replace it at a reasonable cost. Also by then I had a smartphone could use it listen to music instead so didn&#8217;t need to carry another device just for songs. <\/p>\n<p>Found out yesterday that Apple is going to discontinue the iPod after the current stock is sold out. It had a good run from 2001-2022 and it revived Apple as a company so kudos to the team that created it and the marketing team that made sure that it became the &#8216;must-have&#8217; accessory for most of the hip crowd. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href='https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/05\/10\/ipod-rip-2001-2022.html'>BoingBoing: iPod, RIP (2001 \u2013 2022)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPod was a massive game changer when it released. I love music and when the iPod 2nd gen released I was using a Rio mp3 player that had 32 MB of storage which meant that I could put ~8 songs on it. So everyday I would decide what 8 songs I wanted to listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}