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iPod Can Woz Save The iPod Classic?
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Ah, yes. Well, I'll freely admit that I, too, would happily purchase such a device.
Thanks for posting this. He does seem to be an interesting guy with decent and generous instincts.
Well Judd; maybe, just maybe; Apple sees value in bringing Woz back into the family; and the iPod Classic may be the perfect Apple device to begin that journey.
Because Steve Jobs Loved the iPod; and Steve Wozniak Loved Steve Jobs.
I think your thoughts on the importance of Woz to Apple and the importance of the iPod to Woz are wildly overinflated.
The iPod Classic doesn't make financial sense for Apple anymore and there's nothing that will change that. Anyone in the world who could conceivably want one bought one already.
There are people out there who prefer CRT-based monitors and TVs. That doesn't mean there enough of them for them to be made profitably by mainstream companies.
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Still technically employed means not meaningfully employed.
I thought he stopped that a while back, but yea, hes simply on the payroll for nostalgia sake. He doesnt actually do anything at Apple and has no meaningful connection to anything that they do there. The only time that I think he even would go their HQ is to meet up with some friends there or to attend the keynotes (where he is a VIP of sorts).
But its not his main (or even secondary) source of employment. The article its points out that he wants to be a teacher. Sounds like he doesnt seem interested at all with being involved with Apple tech that is discontinued.
Cool. I fell in love with Australia too. Sydney is an amazing city. They just need to get their act together to save their country from the ravages of climate change. Nearly the entire interior of the land mass is scorched and uninhabitable, or at least highly inhospitable.
Like our western states are getting.
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He gets $12,000 a year. Even for a retainer, that's not a lot of money. His alimony from his three divorces probably cost him far more than that sum.
Steve Jobs Never Gave Up; Nor Will MeeMac!
Apple was resurrected when Steve Jobs returned.
And it was MUSIC that was the medium of instruction for Jobs.
MUSIC that YOU can carry with YOU wherever YOU are.
Steve Loved MUSIC.
Once MUSIC was portable; then all the computer programs/apps followed suit.
The iPhone is in fact the evolution of the iPod.
The Cloud is in fact the evolution of the iPod.
The iPod Classic is the signature device of 21st century Apple.
Macintosh, to iPod Classic, to Apple Watch.
Desk, to Hand, to Body.
MUSIC is Freedom for the Individual.
Steve Loved the Individual.
That is why Steve Loved the iPod Classic.
The iPod Classic is Freedom for the Individual.
The iPod Classic has earned the right to continue to bring Freedom to Individuals throughout the universe.
The Cloud has not earned that right; nor has the stream.
Only the iPod Classic.
If I had my iWatch right now; I could tell you what time it really is.
It is time to reintroduce the iPod Classic to the Apple Family;
and to reintroduce Steve Wozniak to the Apple Family.
Think Different
Long Live MeeMac
Apple was resurrected when Steve Jobs returned.
And it was MUSIC that was the medium of instruction for Jobs.
MUSIC that YOU can carry with YOU wherever YOU are.
Steve Loved MUSIC.
Once MUSIC was portable; then all the computer programs/apps followed suit.
The iPhone is in fact the evolution of the iPod.
The Cloud is in fact the evolution of the iPod.
The iPod Classic is the signature device of 21st century Apple.
Macintosh, to iPod Classic, to Apple Watch.
Desk, to Hand, to Body.
MUSIC is Freedom for the Individual.
Steve Loved the Individual.
That is why Steve Loved the iPod Classic.
The iPod Classic is Freedom for the Individual.
The iPod Classic has earned the right to continue to bring Freedom to Individuals throughout the universe.
The Cloud has not earned that right; nor has the stream.
Only the iPod Classic.
If I had my iWatch right now; I could tell you what time it really is.
It is time to reintroduce the iPod Classic to the Apple Family;
and to reintroduce Steve Wozniak to the Apple Family.
Think Different
Long Live MeeMac
As much as I love my iPod Classic (absolutely the best device for portable video, IMO) it has virtually no place in the market now. There are alternate MP3 players in the form of the iPod Nano, Touch. There's the "jack of all trades" iPhone, too.
What could a large, dedicated device offer? There was a market moving towards portable music in the early 2000's, but now money is made (for the corporations at least) in streaming. They won't give that up.
Yes.
That was one thing. It took way more than one product and most of that was done before the iPod existed.
Yes, and two things are important. Steve is dead, and Apple still sells many devices that play music..
Huh?
That is 100% opinion.
You seem to be missing several successful products.
Wha?
Huh? If if this is true (it’s totally opinion) and its really meaningless.
And yet he let it wither on the vine.
No it isn't
Again, what does that mean?
What?
I fail to see what the iWatch has to do with anything. It’s not a music player anyhow.
Why when they have many products that do what the iPod Classic did way better.
I don’t think Steve Wozniak wants to do that. We have plenty of evidence to the contrary. If he wanted to do something at Apple, he would have done it years ago.
Unfortunately, I think your arguments and logic are all too true.
For my part, I suspect that there is still a market for a capacious music player, but not a sufficiently large one to generate the sort of profits that shareholders would demand. Others (Astell & Kern come to mind) will step in and fill that gap, but at a rather hefty price tag for what will likely remain very much a minority niche product.
More to the point, I suspect that the direction of how music is sold has been undergoing drastic and radical transformation. Thus, income is generated by, or comes from renting access to and streaming music; those of us who contest this model of ownership and storage - as we still believe that we own the music we buy and wish to store it ourselves, rather than simply agreeing to rent it and pay regularly for the privilege of obtaining access to it - are not currently the majority in the market place, and are not likely to be in the coming years.
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Works for me already. $50/mo. for 20 Mbps DSL + Netflix. Works fine as long as you don't need ESPN.
That's my only thing. I'm an OSU grad and fan, so there'd be a couple games a year that I would miss (tho like 75% of the games are on the Columbus ABC affiliate so I wouldn't miss those).
I think the only channels I'd "miss" would be Food Network and HGTV, but I want to say their programming winds up on Hulu.
As to the OP: I'd like to see Apple put out a niche music player for audiophiles, with higher end audio chip and if possible 256GB of space. Tho, I'm not sure if there's a large enough market to justify the R&D and startup costs.
Yo Skott....
How much R&D & start-up to put a 256GB into the iPod Classic?
Let Us Make This Happen People!
How do we get Apple to LISTEN to the MUSIC?
How much R&D & start-up to put a 256GB into the iPod Classic?
Let Us Make This Happen People!
How do we get Apple to LISTEN to the MUSIC?
How much R&D & start-up to put a 256GB into the iPod Classic?
Let Us Make This Happen People!
How do we get Apple to LISTEN to the MUSIC?
I was thinking more of something new. Granted the outer part can be the same, but it might need some redesign of the innards.
Tho, to be honest, I'd even dump the old outside design, just so there's no need to pay whatever licensing they had to pay Creative (IIRC) for use of the GUI.
I just went to the Apple web site to see what products and versions have been released that I must be missing. I didn't see anything there (aside from full-fledged laptops) that can hold the 140GB of music currently on my iPod Classic. And I was already eyeing that "8.1 GB Free" in my Settings warily, because it's not like I want to quit immersing myself in new music, even as I still crank up the songs that have gotten me through more subway, airplane and rural rides than I can remember.
A 256GB Touch would obviously hold all my music, plus the Mail program, the Weather app, the Kindle app and the MetroNorth train schedules -- but not much more, if I want to continue to buy music from Apple -- and maybe this is in the works. Syncing via WiFi, for example, would be a nice convenience.
But according to their web site, a 256 GB Touch isn't on offer. So back to your statement: Which products are you referring to when you say that they they have many that do "what the iPod Classic did way better"?
WE WANT OUR iPOD CLASSIC BACK!
nyc.dab;20752732Which products are you referring to when you say that they they have many that do "what the iPod Classic did way better"?[/QUOTE said:Right on dab!
The iPod Classic earned the right to be called Classic because for Music Lovers; there is no close second.
I asked Apple to return the Classic to our Family more than once.
We need a media campaign.
Any ideas how to get the message out to the fans of iPod Classic in social media space?
We Want Our iPod Classic Back!
No, what you need are sales. Or rather, what you needed were sales. Steady sales of the iPod Classic over the past few years would have kept it alive. That's what would have been needed to justify the R&D required to redevelop the Classic once the supply of 1.8" drives dried up.
Apple is not in the business of discontinuing products that make them serious coin.
Nope if you live in an area with poor cell signal OR you care about audio quality.
I was referring to music playback functions. Nowhere did I imply storage as a feature (which it really isnt given that we have online streaming nowadays)
How do you stream to an iPod touch when there isn't wi-fi?
Some of us still prefer built in storage over streaming.
How do you stream to an iPod touch when there isn't wi-fi?
Some of us still prefer built in storage over streaming.
This, this, many times this!
I've had the:
- 1st gen ipod nano - still have it. battery only lasts 30 minutes
- 7th gen ipod classic - gave it to ex about 5 years ago. haven't see it since.
- 6th gen ipod nano - fell from chair onto tiles. shattered. got replaced. forgot it pants pocket and ran through washer and dryer. broken.
- 2nd gen ipod shuffle - lost during a drunken trip home from bar a few years ago
- 2nd ipod touch - had it playing music on bathroom counter while i was in the shower. steam must have killed it since it never turned on again after.
I'm hoping something new comes out in the ipod world, but I have my doubts, as do a lot of people. If nothing new gets announced soon, I'll probably be picking up a shuffle or nano in the next couple months.
Maybe one day when data plans become more affordable that constant streaming is a viable option for the regular user when not connected to wifi.
Not if you are trying to listen to music where you can't stream.
And this is why I have been buying up 5.5G Videos and 7.5G Classics. I have 3 Videos and 3 Classics that have all been upgraded to SDXC-based drives with 256GB-512GB.