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Will Apple kill the iPod Classic on Oct 4th?
The iPod classic is a bit of a dinosaur at this point, with its click wheel design, lack of touch screen etc. Yet its still the only way to get an iPod which can store all of your music if you have a large collection. With the focus on cloud storage in iOS 5 (even if you still have to download the music you want to listen to) will Apple kill the iPod Classic on Oct 4th? Or will they wait until there's a 128GB or larger iPod Touch before they do that?
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Well, as of now The iPod Classic is listed on Apple's site. So I guess it lives to see another day...for now. www.apple.com/ipod/
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No matter how much of a niche product it is, there are still people buying them. Apple's choices are to leave it as is or to come out with a larger capacity top of the line iPod Touch so that people who want it have that option.
Rather than killing it through an event, it is more likely they'll just drop it from their online store.
Rather than killing it through an event, it is more likely they'll just drop it from their online store.
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No one will really know for sure until the Apple event on Oct 4th (if they talk about the iPod at all). But Apple doesn't "kill" products per-say, they more let them fade into obscurity. So if Cook talks about the iPod Touch, but fails to mention the classic iPod, you can probably safely say that the iPod classic will exists so long as there's leftover stock in stores.
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With iCloud and the fact that everyone has a smartphone I really don't see the need for storing 80GB of music on hand. Might as well carry an external hard drive if you're a DJ or something like that. If I were Apple I wouldn't update it since people are still buying it to get rid of soon to be obsolete inventory. No reason to put resources on a fading product line.
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I do a lot of driving for work and my ipod classic is perfect for me, i just stick all my music, podcasts and audiobooks on there and keep it plugged into my car's dock, i just take it out to do a podcast / new tunes update every couple of weeks.
Nothing else on the market can do that for me. As i have an iphone the extra featured and cost of a large capacity ipod touch would be wasted
Nothing else on the market can do that for me. As i have an iphone the extra featured and cost of a large capacity ipod touch would be wasted
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