Yes, I just bought one of these.
Even though I already have an iPod Touch and iPad and so on and so forth and whatnot.
Why?
The iOS versions are top-notch and considerably more flexible, functional and powerful. I don’t have 40,000 songs, but the iPod Classic makes a great portable hard disk drive.
But why? You can get a pocket hard disk drive with seven hundred percent more storage at half the cost.
True. But those are basically electronic bricks reliant on other hardware before anything useful can come of them. The iPod Classic can stand on its own without need of anything else allowing access to music, movies, calendaring, notes, etc.
But beyond all that, it’s the design. With iOS taking-off like wildfire it becomes only a matter of time before the iPod Classic is discontinued. Surely it still sells for Apple and it must be profitable. But I can’t help the gut feeling Apple keeps it around for no reason other than the nostalgic feeling they owe the iPod Classic.
Apple began their come-back with the candy-colored iMac. But it was the iPod, this iPod that dug them out of the hole and carried them all the way to the top of the mountain. Apple owes the iPod Classic everything. All that Apple has created has been copied by others.
Except the original designed Macintosh.
Except for the iPod Classic.
Should you see anyone holding an iPhone or iPod touch, how do you know it’s not some Android copy? Because the iPad owns the tablet market, everyone has one. But when you see someone holding and iPod Classic… thumbing over the touch-based spin-wheel…
You know.
