Rihanna has also returned to using a pre-smartphone era handset, while Iggy Pop recently confessed he owned a clamshell phone. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue was spotted at the US Open tennis tournament this year clasping a flip phone of the type seldom seen since around a decade ago. The iPod Classic is not the first retro gadget to be surging in popularity again. After buying one last week on Amazon and giving it a one-star review, Ian Murray said: “Rubbish company advertised as grade B – it was scratched, dented and screen had lines through it. However, not everyone has been happy with their secondhand purchases.
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I have a smartphone that takes 128GB microSD cards there are apps like doubleTwist that sync iTunes with Android and I have enough things in my pockets already.” “Another company could make something equally good – there are some nice premium players like Sony’s ZX1 and the Astell & Kern devices – but I don’t think I’d buy one. Apple itself is transitioning into music subscriptions with iTunes Radio, and Google has just started trialling YouTube Music Key,” said Dunn. “The iPod’s days have been numbered since the first iPhone, and the subscription model shows no signs of slowing down. Dunn said he could not see the company making the Classic again, but another firm could step into the gap.
The iPod Touch has taken the Classic’s place as the Apple product with the biggest capacity, albeit only up to half of what used to be readily available.
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Also, I think the Classic is a more distraction-free listening experience – I’m more likely to get through a full album on one.”
Editor Will Dunn lamented the product’s demise: “There’s still a huge affection for the iPod Classic and it’s not hard to see why – Spotify might offer 20 million songs, but 120GB of music is more than most people need, and your iTunes library doesn’t carry data charges or a subscription fee. After Apple quietly pulled the Classic from its website, chief executive Tim Cook said the company no longer had access to the components and a redesign would have been too demanding.Īs long ago as January 2013, Stuff magazine recommended buying an iPod Classic before it was too late, predicting it would double in price as soon it went into retirement.
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