The end of iPods

     Back in early 2001, the late Steve Jobs gave us a device that would change music streaming forever. We only had CD's and Cassettes were staring to die. But it seems CDs were on their way out when this came along.

    He called it the iPod. It held over 1,000 songs in one device and it really changed music streaming forever.

   The first iPod was clunky and heavy. Before we know it. There were new iPods coming out with more gigabytes, able to handle over 5,0000 songs in one little device. It was changing Apple and making other companies.... obsolete.

    Ok not Obsolete, but around 2002, a second iPod was created calling itself the 2nd Generation iPod. Then a third came and so on and so forth. Soon, they showed to have a photo option and a camera installment. Video soon came along making the screen bigger.

   Then....came out the iPod mini. It was short lived with only two generations in 2003 and 2004. I think I might have had one during my college years. It was hard to remember but there were only two generations before it was discontinued.

   Why was it short lived? Because not many of them were selling as much as the new generation iPods.

    A new iPod was featured with no screen and only a wheel with buttons. It was called the iPod shuffle. You would never know what song you were listening to. It would just come up and... you would have to like it. 

   You can always skip it if you did not enjoy the song. This was one iPod I didn't care for. 

    Steve Jobs passed away from cancer during the time iPod shuffle was in production and did live long to see the last one called iPod Nano, which I did have. His final words were reportedly to be... "Oh wow, Oh wow, Oh wow."

     After his death, some people thought the iPods and iPhones would be gone. But nope.... they are still live and strong even after his death. It seems, even after he's gone and Wazowski left the company, Apple company has managed to stay strong to the technology that a Zune couldn't surpass.

    The iPod nano came around during the last days of Steven Jobs. There were over seven generations and when the sixth generation iPod Nano came out...the wheel was gone. It was more a touch screen where you could hold your music, videos and even photos.

    I enjoyed the iPod Nano until the fifth generation, then I went into another streaming service curtesy of Amazon which I still use today and stopped using iPods permanently.

   The final of the iPods was the iPod touch which had no wheel and was the final iPod ever made. It was more like a iPhone than it was the iPod. Having a huge screen and you can make calls on it.

    It was just a second iPhone with holding more music than the predecessor. I never got one, but I had some people using them mistaking it as an iPhone at times. I guess the confusion was too much for some people and now....iPods are gone.

    iPod touch 7th generation was considered the last iPod made. It was made from 2019 to May of 2022. The final iPod was made and after that....no more. 

   People were starting to use streaming sites like Spotify, Amazon and even Pandora. iPods were starting to become yesterday's news and Alexa by Amazon was the new thing where you can just get music from the streaming sites built into it.

  Technology is growing faster and becoming smarter making iPods obsolete. But it seems the iPhones and the iPads are still with us. 

   Using an iPhone is like having another smartphone. I use a Samsung and it still works today. Even with new upgrades coming every year, it doesn't mean you have to say goodby to one phone just to get another. Not until it is the right time for something new.

     We will always remember the technology it gave us along with the music. But now, it is time to put iPod to rest and have something new come in their way.

    iPods are no more since May of 2022. Most news stories covered the history of how iPods were started by one man who wanted to stream music one MP3 device.