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Aw, I wanted to flip through the product photos but UO and Retrospekt have taken them all down. I loved my first generation iPod Nano. It was such a beautiful

• Atreiden 3y ago
  Hardware design never got better than this, IMO. Fullscreen capacitive touch seems like an improvement in theory, but iPod controls sit right in the sweet spot between digital and analog. Slap a DAC, BT5 connectivity with aptX, and 1TB+ SSD in one of those and I'd buy one. Honestly, battery life on modern phones doesn't lend well to them playing a full-time second role as a music player. This is what you'd want on a camping trip. Maybe there's a nascent market here
  • wodenokoto 3y ago
    You’d be sad to learn that Apple built iPhone prototypes around the iPod and it wasn’t very good.
  • chiefalchemist 3y ago
    Hardware today isn't worse per se. Back then we a music player, a phone, and a camera. Each form / UX specific to the problem being solved. Now we have a single device that solves all three and more (e.g., biometrics) in albeit a least common denominator sorta way. A single form can't expect to complete with specialists. I prefer a crap device that I use for comms (phone and SMS), and a second device with a better camera and more storage for media that only connects via wifi. There are plenty of instances I want a camera and/or music (often without even wifi) but not the temptation of being full connected.