{"id":4920,"date":"2015-09-03T20:20:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:03:46","slug":"linked-whos-actually-buying-ipods-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/linked-whos-actually-buying-ipods-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Who&#8217;s Actually Buying iPods These Days?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birchtree.me\/blog\/who-buys-ipods\">BirchTree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>So who are iPods for? They&#8217;re for people who don&#8217;t have a smartphone, and that&#8217;s about it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They\u2019re actually for people who have a ton of music, don\u2019t want to stream music and pay high mobile phone bills and don\u2019t want to be tied to one device when the battery dies. Last time I went on a 5 day camping trip, we had a speaker with an auxiliary in jack and an extra set of D batteries. Everyone\u2019s iPhone \/ Android phone died on day #2. My iPod Classic played music all weekend on shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>I had 22 thousand songs on me with a battery that lasts a week. Welcome to 2008, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via BirchTree: So who are iPods for? They&#8217;re for people who don&#8217;t have a smartphone, and that&#8217;s about&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":"2016-03-17T02:20:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"622adb7e-ecdf-4278-aa90-847ca2f315f2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:20:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYirbfuzfQniqkIR8ovMV8g","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-4920","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\/pb3IC4-1hm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4293,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/linked-on-death-and-ipods-a-requiem\/","url_meta":{"origin":4920,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;On Death and iPods: A Requiem&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Wired: 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 Holy. Shit.\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":4368,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/linked-fans-scramble-for-ipod-classic-the-music-player-apple-killed-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":4920,"position":1},"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":7047,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/05\/linked-apple-kills-off-ipod-nano-and-ipod-shuffle\/","url_meta":{"origin":4920,"position":2},"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. The hardware form factor isn\u2019t what did these in \u2014 it\u2019s the antiquated notion of having to sync audio files to them\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":2862,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/how-the-editor-of-windows-magazine-became-an-apple-fanboy\/","url_meta":{"origin":4920,"position":3},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cult of Mac: After trying a long list of horrible music players, I started buying iPods for myself and my kids maybe five or six years ago. They made me an Apple customer for the first time in my life. 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I\u2019ve been writing\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":436,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/ipod-classic-and-the-death-of-hdd\/","url_meta":{"origin":4920,"position":5},"title":"\u2605 iPod Classic and The Death of HDD","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive which, in my opinion, all storage drives are hard but only one uses disks and this is what we'll be talking about today. 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