Apple’s foray into portable music devices has officially retired.
The first iPod came out in 2001, when top music of the year was Lifehouse’s Hanging By A Moment, Alicia Keys debut song Fallin’ and Janet Jackson’s All For You.
May people partook in pre-orders of the history making device with it’s fancy touch-wheel scrolling feature that sold for an average of $400.
Other companies soon came out with their own versions of an MP3 player, but none had as much success as the iPod and it’s many offspring like the Shuffle, Nano and various generations of the original model and the iPod Touch.
Apple is finally putting to the iPod and other remaining generation of the music only device to rest after discontinuing other models in 2014 and 2017. Stores that do have them in stock will be on a “while supplies last” basis, and will not be getting any more.
Ironically, it was Apple’s iPhone that killed it’s musical counterpart by combining a cellphone to feature music playback and video capability plus a hoard of other features.
It’s expected that ebay will start to bloom with with sellers offloading their now defunct paperweights as collectors items, with some getting anywhere between $1,000 – $20,000 for rarer, good condition models.
