Rec | APPLE IPOD CLASSIC EVOLUTION

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I’m currently Fixated on how beautiful the apple iPod classic lineup was. i got obsessed with Steve Jobs ipod introducing keynotes and i bought myself a 5.5gen for Valentine’s Day. now i can have over a thousand songs in my pocket shoutout to the iPod nano generations those guys too were legitness. i used the 4th gen as a kid highly recommend grabbing one of these, getting some albums off Bandcamp, and going for a walk w ur middle school earbuds in truly timeless devices

@jelly84

Mar 20, 2025

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@vsgro

owning music is very gratifying and feels cozy. especially when you keep it on a separate device (non-phone) for listening

Mar 20, 2025

@jelly84

@VSGRO agreed

Mar 20, 2025

@karyllecr

jony ive really had a generational designing for apple... especially those pre 2012... goated...

Mar 20, 2025

@2007wiiremote

Ive been stuck on them for a while recently too!! I cant wait to get my hands on one, they are so awesum.

Mar 20, 2025

@alex

3rd from the left is so beaitful. peak audio tech

Mar 20, 2025

@jelly84

@ALEX right??? the click wheel is the stuff of dreams

Mar 20, 2025

@brooks

miss it so much

Mar 20, 2025

@salad_valet

@BROOKS i got a refurbished iPod Touch last summer that has changed my whole relationship to music (it’s like time traveling to life before our phones)

Mar 21, 2025

@brooks

@SALAD_VALET I still have my ipod touch from like 2008? to like 2012? I think? and i totally experienced this time travel thing when I booted it back up!!! it doesn't hold a charge anymore unless always plugged in. but it's still of an older design so maybe I could replace the battery like I did on my first ipod. it is truly great to just put that baby on shuffle and be delighted by your own music 😇

Mar 21, 2025

@salad_valet

@BROOKS i really love putting mine in shuffle. To have a collection curated by and for me, only me. A gift !

Mar 21, 2025

@marts

I’m still traumatized from when my 3rd gen hdd failed and I could just hear that horrible clicking sound again and again and I thought the world had ended

Mar 20, 2025

@salad_valet

The haptics on that little wheel go so hard. I miss buttons and wheels on things.

Mar 20, 2025

@jelly84

@SALAD_VALET click click click

Mar 20, 2025

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shopping for an ipod classic has made me wonder why i want an ipod classic. it’s something that has one singular function (a function that my phone does pretty well) and i think it’s exactly because of that that i want one. of course, the argument of the nostalgia factor is there, but the simplicity of it all is attractive to me... i would like to focus on the music only and enjoy how tactile and nice the buttons and the build quality is on one of those things… of course in terms of other tech the nostalgia is probably playing a bigger part in it, like using an old iphone for your instagram photos for the grain and lower quality… but i think getting the most life possible out of these things is a really fun and responsible thing to do and it should be more common.

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