Apple rumored to drop support of the iPod Classic by this year - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Harry3;42111064]This Best Apple product I have ever bought, had my 160gb for 5 years and its still got 50gb space left, are there even any other mp3 players on the market with such large storage?[/QUOTE] Yeah but the majority are cheap and utter shit. zune was the nearest decent thing until they discontinued them.

i just use my tablet/phone for music. my local music library resides on my computer, i don't need it all on the go.

Didn't apple just release a 128 GB iPad? I'm anticipating iPhones and iPods with more storage very soon.

not surprising. i bought one a year ago and the guy at the store said "yeh these will all be gone in a few years with the way 4G and cloud is going" i assumed what he means is that eventually everyone is just going to stream all their music

I like being able to have all of my music in one place, rather than picking and choosing because every other device they've made since has shit for storage space.

It's handy to have around so I don't have to drain my phone's battery on long trips, but I wouldn't buy another standalone music player.

I'm honestly surprised it's lasted this long. They must be one of the only companies still making hard drive based players.

If they do, would that mean a price drop for stores that need to get rid of excess stock? I've been waiting for a couple years to replace my 16 GB Zune HD.

Well, it's obsolete.

I just bought their sixth gen. player; I haven't even opened the box. Glad I got it when I did. Price is going to skyrocket.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;42109247]:'( imagine a 240gb SSD classic. mmm.[/QUOTE] why would you need an SSD to play MP3s?

Time to launch that Zune Classic, Microsoft!

I havnt seen people use ipods in years. All i see is people using there phones.

[QUOTE=mark6789;42114102]I havnt seen people use ipods in years. All i see is people using there phones.[/QUOTE] Fuck people and profits man. Even if apple only releases an updated version once every century or so on the classic, kept a very small production run of them, people would still buy it. I would at least, and I am people. It's really the only mp3 player of it's kind that is worth a shit.

In ten years they'll release the "Ipod Vintage." It'll weigh 10 pounds and cost $700 for only 16GB, but they can always market it as "Experience the Beginning."

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;42114100]Time to launch that Zune Classic, Microsoft![/QUOTE] If only. I was so excited to get the HD when I seriously expected Microsoft to put in enough effort to compete with Apple.

[QUOTE=TheLolrus;42114272]If only. I was so excited to get the HD when I seriously expected Microsoft to put in enough effort to compete with Apple.[/QUOTE] The Zune HD was fucking beautiful, just way too limited in scope.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;42114410]The Zune HD was fucking beautiful, just way too limited in scope.[/QUOTE] I don't even use mine anymore. Why bother if even the desktop software isn't updated anymore? The least they could do is patch the device or Windows to be able to recognize each other through WMP or something.

[QUOTE=redBadger;42109261]Yeah. Imagine that huge dent in your bank account.[/QUOTE] What do you think the Nano's use. They use flash. You don't need highend NAND for something like that. Just lots of middle range NAND and just a cheap efficient controller. And probably just a decent ram buffer for writing so it can prepackage the NAND pages. AKA, SSD's are expensive if you need them to be fast and have lots of wear tolerance.

I'd still have mine, it was just too quiet I think the UK got a gimped version

[QUOTE=Generic Monk;42114098]why would you need an SSD to play MP3s?[/QUOTE] Mechanical hard-drives aren't exactly renowned for their durability when being thrown around. SSD's on the other hand... Problem is that every company who sells handheld devices with lots of internal storage takes the opportunity to skim some extra dosh by jacking up the price by a unproportionally large amount compared to the actual price of the storage IC's [editline]8th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=GoDong-DK;42114100]Time to launch that Zune Classic, Microsoft![/QUOTE] Windows RT needs someone to throw a pity party with. [editline]8th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Flash_Fire;42118360]I'd still have mine, it was just too quiet I think the UK got a gimped version[/QUOTE] AFAIK it's firmware gimped, because a senile part of the EU commission deemed that it could play too loud with stock earbuds.