End of an era: Pod Classic discontinued

[jdc]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=jdc]


I dont see a market for them anymore since everyone has a smart phone

Not me...
No smartphone? Well, then you should just walk out into heavy traffic and kill yourself... miley-shocked003:

[silvarios]

deckeda wrote:
The Touch may indeed be unecessary. It's a great "teen" solution but more and more young teens and some pre-teens are instead getting hand-me-down smartphones.

An Android-phone friend uses an iPod Classic, probably because he likes iTunes on his PC. And using that click-wheel interface is still an excellent way to navigate music.

I agree. Better bang for the buck with a smart phone versus the iPod touch. Put it in AirPlane mode and don't activate it if you solely want a media player mini tablet. That's what I do with my $60 Moto G. I do miss the click wheel sometimes, but since the touch never had one, it's no loss to switch away.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

decay wrote:
Snow Leopard is the gateway to the App Store and purchasing apps and upgrading to 10.9. That is the only reason it's still available.

Fixed.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

decay wrote:
I still use a 5th gen 60 GB and a 5.5 gen 80 GB.

Note the icon Apple uses on their store page.

The iPod Classic is literally iconic!

[N-OS X-tasy!]

My 60GB iPod classic currently acts as a music server in my car.

[Zoidberg]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
My 60GB iPod classic currently acts as a music server in my car.

I was doing this as well, but with the larger capacity iPod classic -- when it worked, it worked great (once I turned off voice recognition/voice control, which choked on the mass of music titles on the iPod), but I would have to do the hard reset far too often.

Streaming is great, and what I do, but I still like the idea of having the whole library available to me sans download, esp since just about every review I read re/iTunes Match has been middling to mediocre.

[decay]

walmart.com has the iPod Classic. for now.
$239 for 160GB

Target.com has it for $245

[Sam3]

decay wrote:
walmart.com has the iPod Classic. for now.
$239 for 160GB

Target.com has it for $245

Our local Target store has at least one sitting in the locked cabinet... for $245.

I'm hoping that the price will drop, Target is pretty good about clearance prices, they want to get old products out quickly.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Zoidberg wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
My 60GB iPod classic currently acts as a music server in my car.

I was doing this as well, but with the larger capacity iPod classic -- when it worked, it worked great (once I turned off voice recognition/voice control, which choked on the mass of music titles on the iPod), but I would have to do the hard reset far too often.

Streaming is great, and what I do, but I still like the idea of having the whole library available to me sans download, esp since just about every review I read re/iTunes Match has been middling to mediocre.
I tend to only use the Random function when playing music and I don't ever utilize the voice recognition features of my car (but I guess I should... I paid for them, after all), so I probably wouldn't encounter the same problems you did.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Sam3 wrote:
I'm hoping that the price will drop, Target is pretty good about clearance prices, they want to get old products out quickly.

Worth keeping an eye on Amazon, too. They tend to drop their price on an items when others do.