{"id":4293,"date":"2014-11-10T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2014-11-06T20:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:38:55","slug":"linked-on-death-and-ipods-a-requiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/linked-on-death-and-ipods-a-requiem\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;On Death and iPods: A Requiem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/09\/rip-ipod\/?mbid=social_twitter\">via Wired:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But that iPod event\u2014the Apple \u201cmusic\u201d event\u2014changed everything else that would come after, for Apple and the rest of us, too. Because like Steve Jobs said that day, with his dad jeans on, \u201cyou can fit your whole music library in your pocket. Never before possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Holy. Shit.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know I\u2019m a little late linking to this but if you ever owned an iPod of any type, this is a very appropriate tribute piece that\u2019s worth 5 minutes of your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Wired: But that iPod event\u2014the Apple \u201cmusic\u201d event\u2014changed everything else that would come after, for Apple and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-31T00:30:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"4d30ce9b-fd0d-498f-9d83-3b67c6276c75","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-31T00:30:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATTDOm_0NSY-dgztnxidsdQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-17f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2718,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/16\/could-the-ipod-be-on-its-deathbed\/","url_meta":{"origin":4293,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;Could the iPod Be On Its Deathbed?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via Wired: If sales of Apple\u2019s iPod are any indication, the heyday of the MP3 player is over and done with. UH-OH iPod sales have been\u00a0steadily declining\u00a0since their peak\u00a0at\u00a022.7 million\u00a0in December 2008, and analysts estimate another 7.2 percent drop over the quarter that just ended. but then Apple still commands\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4918,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/linked-in-the-era-of-apple-music-does-the-ipod-have-a-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":4293,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;In the era of Apple Music, does the iPod have a future?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via 9to5Mac: \u00a0 Yes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4368,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/linked-fans-scramble-for-ipod-classic-the-music-player-apple-killed-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":4293,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Fans scramble for iPod Classic, the music player Apple killed off&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Guardian: With a storage capacity double the size of any current iPods still being made, versions of the 160GB Classic \u2013 which can hold around 40,000 songs \u2013 are being sold as new via Amazon for up to \u00a3670. More than 3,000 of the models \u2013 the seventh,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2509,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/apple-starts-to-wind-down-the-ipod-brand\/","url_meta":{"origin":4293,"position":3},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;Apple Starts To Wind Down The &#8220;iPod&#8221; Brand&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"BusinessInsider: Apple's\u00a0new iOS 5 software for iPhones, shipping this fall, has many additions, but\u00a0appears to have one notable subtraction: The music app is no longer called \"iPod\" -- it's just called \"Music.\" There's a separate app for \"Video,\" as on the iPad and iPod touch. Apple is probably mostly trying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7047,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/05\/linked-apple-kills-off-ipod-nano-and-ipod-shuffle\/","url_meta":{"origin":4293,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple Kills Off iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Daring Fireball: I\u2019m sure there are still tens of millions of these iPods in use, and will be for years to come. They\u2019re great for working out. 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Great reporting) Apple\u2019s next big phone\u2014presumably called the iPhone 7\u2014will come without a 3.5mm headphone jack, will be noticeably thinner, will very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}