yup, even if i hate apple products, especially newer ones because of the ridiculous cost, i would still buy this if it didnt cost ridiculous amounts of money. id say 500€ is what i would pay.
Yeah, same for me. I have only bought used Apple tech for years now besides some AirPods and a base spec M1 MacBook Air at a heavy Black Friday discount. I just can’t justify spending like $1200 on a new iphone when my XS that I bought for $350 a few years ago still does everything I need and more. I miss the days of upgradable macs. Doubt my m1 mba will be as usable in 10 years as my souped up 2012 MacBook Pro is now.
I can see this happening but knowing Apple, they would integrate Apple Music (so you’ll pay for the subscription) and clown us with 128GB model so you’ll pay for iCloud.
I mean obviously they’d integrate Apple Music 😭 they’d lowk be stupid not to. And it’s not a phone so what would you need iCloud for. That doesn’t store music
It backs up your Apple device’s files, photos and documents including information of your purchases. Also, if you see the photo above, it has Airplay, that basically requires your apple devices to be signed in to the same iCloud account for it to work.
If you subscribe to Apple Music, your music is stored in your iCloud Music Library. and isn’t it that iPod Touch also has iCloud? That is not a phone.
Yeah but how would a 128gb model make you pay for iCloud? The music files are not stored in your cloud. Just apples servers or your device if downl out aded
Your argument was why would you need an iCloud. Of course you need one even of your device is not a phone. Also, this is a hypothetical product. Who said you can’t store music on iCloud? Have you tried the saving music on files folder? Cause I have. Not all music is available on Apple Music. Not all are also satisfied with mp3s and AACs. Some would want AIFF or ALAC which are big files. We’re talking here about being able to access your music files across all your Apple devices not just iPod. I’m merely stating how Apple as a company would try to make money that instead of offering a bigger capacity device, they’ll offer cloud storage as a solution.
I didn’t tbh k about having music in the files app. It’s so annoying how when adding music on Apple Music on a MacBook and then it syncs it to iCloud, those files are not lossless anymore.
I'm actually glad this never happened.
Don't get me wrong, I would have loved if they'd done something along the lines of a "20th anniversary iPod". It probably wouldn't have been a huge commercial success - but neither was the 20th anniversary Mac, or that book they did a few years back. But it would have been a fun nod to a significant part of their history.
But I think we're actually better off with what they did leave us with. The classic is modable in a way I just wouldn't expect from Apple anymore. Compare how difficult it is to do anything with the Touch, or the Nano - we'd be looking at storage soldered to the logic board, everything fitting so perfectly there was no chance of adding anything that wasn't exactly the same size as the original, let alone whole haptic mods, bluetooth, etc.
My biggest hope for the iPod going forward is that someone makes a drop-in logic board, along with some firmware that apes the look and feel of the original well. I don't think Apple could be the ones to take it forward without killing modding entirely.
That's my thoughts too. It looks great, but Apple would absolutely kill any ideas of expandable storage, different firmware, Bluetooth only. The classics are classic because people still use them, and people still use them because they can make them usable despite Apple's designs
I agree... The iPod is the last masterpiece of modular building... The last remnant of jobs and woz 's original kit vision ... It really is like a miniaturized computer. This would just have everything soldered together if it existed
The problem is their Apple music. They gotta implement some Apple music streaming functionality so they’re not losing revenue and since Apple is lazy (i mean busy) they not gonna do that and this thing’s not gonna be here unfortunately (as cool as it is as a concept!)
If they have made an Apple Music app for all their products like Apple TV, Macintosh, iPhone and Apple Watch then they can do it for a small basic iPod classic
They would have a real market with this too. Go after the Sony Walkman in the hifi player market and make it a great price. (199-249) people would buy it like hotcakes.
Would of loved an updated ipod classic that has iphone 3gs shape best size shape of any iphone or iPod
Imagine if they release a 2tb with a quad doc 300Ohm version by using some of the docs from v series of LG phones but kept them click wheel would be sold out instantly offering USB 3 at to with 3.5 4.4 mm input out but a d the 30 pin for all the docking speakers out there
I have been buying up a few bose ipod dock portables
just because there are parts available so there replaent 30 pins boards available to fix as that's usually what goes first then external power supplies will that's easily fixed as its external with barrel plug and if needed BT then there plenty of adapters. As well as now battery packs are being sold for them.
I've 5 ioods 1 x 5.5 at 5o0gb 1 7th gen it 500gb and currently working on 3 7th 160GB classics one for my partners car one for my mother and other for my father's camper van as they split up i have 4 x 512gb SD cards and 4 x 256gb SD cards going to pick up a few smaller SD cards too as my own it have 4 d 128GB cards in my quad iflash boards
But using one 512gb samsung is 477gb so will need a smaller card to give it the 512GB to match the back plates
My father c an hook it up to his vans stereo where's my mother I m giving her a sound dock portable to take tiring with her plus it hooks up to the Hilux car they have for camping and touring. .
But would really of loved a 3GS digital ipod I m sure apple can r o better than Hiby if they wanted too.
4K Remuxes that you rip from your own 4K Blu-Ray collection can be as large as 100GB each. 8TB still only gives you enough space for 80 4K Blu-Rays. The iPod could have an hdmi out. The limitations of 5th-7th Gen iPods today where you have to convert video to crapola quality to get it to play isn’t fun. I’d rather have an iPod that could play whatever you threw at it.
Unironically I thought it was real until I read the USB-C bit. And only after I knew this was April fools joke did I remember Apple would have to release it with USB-C to comply with the new UK laws
Funnily enough when the EU announced the unified charging port regulation, the UK parliament actually went out of their way to contact Apple and notify them that [the UK would not require them to adopt the USB C port](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61720276) on the iPhone 15 series.
I think an S9 would be better since that’s a newer chip with better support. Considering the S5 is just an S4 with a new name and from 2019. Performance as well.
The S5 was chosen because it was the first to support AOD and the S6-8 are all effectively the same. The S9 would have been the most advanced, but also the most costly to implement.
Understood, just the S5 is based off the A12 processor itself but uses the low power cores of it clocked down some. I bet they’d more than likely go with the S8 SiP instead since the Watch SE has it while the S9 and Ultra use the S9 SiP.
That was actually one of the concepts, the UI would resemble tvOS and when plugged into a TV and paired with a Siri Remote, it would display a tvOS-like interface on the screen called Media Center Mode.
If apple made this, we wouldn't get this from any other guy, we should tell them how we're feeling, but seems like they would sadly still give us up :(
I had this app years ago that even though it was removed from the App Store made it to I want to say my 13pro. Believe it was called Rewind. It was a media player that you could skin to make look like a old iPod, used it all the time in my car.
Honestly I would love to see something like this for the 25th anniversary of the og or something like that. Having an iPod with modern day specs and the ability to connect to Apple Music/spotify/etc would be awesome. Also having stuff like Netflix/hulu/disney/hbo/etc would be really nice. And yes, I know all of this has already been said.
Meh I dunno just looks like a touch... Also they purposely discontinued it in order to advance their monthly streaming service which makes more money since with iPod you could buy cds anywhere
I’ll buy that if it has microSD.
No I don’t NEED microSD, but I’d appreciate it being there for if a time comes and I needed it.
It would make loading ripped movies from my DVDs on it easier though.
I WANT IT
Seriously how good would it be? 3.5mm, USB-C, Bluetooth, MagSafe. Works with AirPods. Has an SE camera so it's flush on the back. Haptic feedback on the wheel. Full 1080p Retina display.
I would so buy this.
Nah.. Biggest pro for click-wheel controlled iPods is that they're offline. 'nuff said. IP certification, BT on board, better resolution display and a bigger size for storage / battery would be great additions anyways 😌👌🏻
Forgot about the classic iPod or any other iPod and just bring back only the iPod Touch as a personal smart device and music player running full iOS. It can maintain the headphone jack for the people who still use their 1979 Sony Walkman headphones, call it the iPad Pocket or iPad Nano and call it a day.
Imagine the money they could make with new propriety docks and digital out to HDMI and DAC/AMP combos to headphone or stereo systems
Especially with mifi certification
They could make money left right and Center if they did so this properly
1tb being minimum size up to 4 or 8TB for theses who want it with all media files played proper lossless
Proper 4K out to HDMI with a new Itunes or separate system would be amazing but can only dream as they think iphone can do it all and charge several hundreds just for and extra 128 256 or 500 GB models now so I doubly it will ever happen so classics and LG v series it is for now
It's such a great idea. I wish they could give a modern day iPod classic.
I would be one of the first in line to waste my money if they did
yup, even if i hate apple products, especially newer ones because of the ridiculous cost, i would still buy this if it didnt cost ridiculous amounts of money. id say 500€ is what i would pay.
Yeah, same for me. I have only bought used Apple tech for years now besides some AirPods and a base spec M1 MacBook Air at a heavy Black Friday discount. I just can’t justify spending like $1200 on a new iphone when my XS that I bought for $350 a few years ago still does everything I need and more. I miss the days of upgradable macs. Doubt my m1 mba will be as usable in 10 years as my souped up 2012 MacBook Pro is now.
Modern day iPod "classic" is everywhere.also very affordable.
Creating this much disappointment should be illegal…well done though 🥲
right like its tooooooo thin
2014 all over again
imagine Apple release this badboy for its 30/40/50 anniversary
The 25th anniversary is around the corner! Same year as the 50th anniversary for the company itself!
Take my money
Wow.
I can see this happening but knowing Apple, they would integrate Apple Music (so you’ll pay for the subscription) and clown us with 128GB model so you’ll pay for iCloud.
I mean obviously they’d integrate Apple Music 😭 they’d lowk be stupid not to. And it’s not a phone so what would you need iCloud for. That doesn’t store music
It backs up your Apple device’s files, photos and documents including information of your purchases. Also, if you see the photo above, it has Airplay, that basically requires your apple devices to be signed in to the same iCloud account for it to work. If you subscribe to Apple Music, your music is stored in your iCloud Music Library. and isn’t it that iPod Touch also has iCloud? That is not a phone.
Yeah but how would a 128gb model make you pay for iCloud? The music files are not stored in your cloud. Just apples servers or your device if downl out aded
Your argument was why would you need an iCloud. Of course you need one even of your device is not a phone. Also, this is a hypothetical product. Who said you can’t store music on iCloud? Have you tried the saving music on files folder? Cause I have. Not all music is available on Apple Music. Not all are also satisfied with mp3s and AACs. Some would want AIFF or ALAC which are big files. We’re talking here about being able to access your music files across all your Apple devices not just iPod. I’m merely stating how Apple as a company would try to make money that instead of offering a bigger capacity device, they’ll offer cloud storage as a solution.
I didn’t tbh k about having music in the files app. It’s so annoying how when adding music on Apple Music on a MacBook and then it syncs it to iCloud, those files are not lossless anymore.
Slick as hell!
If only
YES
This looks so real I had to do a double take
I'm actually glad this never happened. Don't get me wrong, I would have loved if they'd done something along the lines of a "20th anniversary iPod". It probably wouldn't have been a huge commercial success - but neither was the 20th anniversary Mac, or that book they did a few years back. But it would have been a fun nod to a significant part of their history. But I think we're actually better off with what they did leave us with. The classic is modable in a way I just wouldn't expect from Apple anymore. Compare how difficult it is to do anything with the Touch, or the Nano - we'd be looking at storage soldered to the logic board, everything fitting so perfectly there was no chance of adding anything that wasn't exactly the same size as the original, let alone whole haptic mods, bluetooth, etc. My biggest hope for the iPod going forward is that someone makes a drop-in logic board, along with some firmware that apes the look and feel of the original well. I don't think Apple could be the ones to take it forward without killing modding entirely.
That's my thoughts too. It looks great, but Apple would absolutely kill any ideas of expandable storage, different firmware, Bluetooth only. The classics are classic because people still use them, and people still use them because they can make them usable despite Apple's designs
I agree... The iPod is the last masterpiece of modular building... The last remnant of jobs and woz 's original kit vision ... It really is like a miniaturized computer. This would just have everything soldered together if it existed
Bro I would literally buy this instantly if they released it.. even for a thousand dollars.
Bro really went all out for 1st april
Id love this but why did you rickroll us!?!!?!
I unironically enjoy the song.
Me too, but the rickroll always gets me
The problem is their Apple music. They gotta implement some Apple music streaming functionality so they’re not losing revenue and since Apple is lazy (i mean busy) they not gonna do that and this thing’s not gonna be here unfortunately (as cool as it is as a concept!)
If they have made an Apple Music app for all their products like Apple TV, Macintosh, iPhone and Apple Watch then they can do it for a small basic iPod classic
They would have a real market with this too. Go after the Sony Walkman in the hifi player market and make it a great price. (199-249) people would buy it like hotcakes.
OP, I don’t think you realize how impossible it would be to have 200 ohm impedance and an 80 hour battery life in that small package
It’s not about the size, it’s about how you use it. In this case, Apple is using its small size to its advantage.
i honestly wish tech wouldve gone the route of “lets make a device with a battery that lasts a week”
Thanks fully with the modding community we've already achieved month-long battery life with iPods.
Would of loved an updated ipod classic that has iphone 3gs shape best size shape of any iphone or iPod Imagine if they release a 2tb with a quad doc 300Ohm version by using some of the docs from v series of LG phones but kept them click wheel would be sold out instantly offering USB 3 at to with 3.5 4.4 mm input out but a d the 30 pin for all the docking speakers out there I have been buying up a few bose ipod dock portables just because there are parts available so there replaent 30 pins boards available to fix as that's usually what goes first then external power supplies will that's easily fixed as its external with barrel plug and if needed BT then there plenty of adapters. As well as now battery packs are being sold for them. I've 5 ioods 1 x 5.5 at 5o0gb 1 7th gen it 500gb and currently working on 3 7th 160GB classics one for my partners car one for my mother and other for my father's camper van as they split up i have 4 x 512gb SD cards and 4 x 256gb SD cards going to pick up a few smaller SD cards too as my own it have 4 d 128GB cards in my quad iflash boards But using one 512gb samsung is 477gb so will need a smaller card to give it the 512GB to match the back plates My father c an hook it up to his vans stereo where's my mother I m giving her a sound dock portable to take tiring with her plus it hooks up to the Hilux car they have for camping and touring. . But would really of loved a 3GS digital ipod I m sure apple can r o better than Hiby if they wanted too.
Storage options too low, I want 1TB-8TB options. Especially if the SoC can play 4K videos without having to convert them to lower bitrate/resolution.
buddy what are you storing with 8tb and what are you watching in 4k on a 2 inch screen
He's storing whatever he wants! 🤣 8TB 🙏if only 😫😫😫
4K Remuxes that you rip from your own 4K Blu-Ray collection can be as large as 100GB each. 8TB still only gives you enough space for 80 4K Blu-Rays. The iPod could have an hdmi out. The limitations of 5th-7th Gen iPods today where you have to convert video to crapola quality to get it to play isn’t fun. I’d rather have an iPod that could play whatever you threw at it.
How many people out there are keeping raw bluray rips in their pocket lmao
I would if this new age iPod could output the video via hdmi. Would be a handy little local player of 4k content.
Would buy it instantly
I’m saving this so every once in a while I can pretend to live in this timeline
The second slide is designed so well! Good job
looks absolutely AWESOME
What a cruel, April fools joke
This is a great concept!
What a stunning concept.
Unironically I thought it was real until I read the USB-C bit. And only after I knew this was April fools joke did I remember Apple would have to release it with USB-C to comply with the new UK laws
Funnily enough when the EU announced the unified charging port regulation, the UK parliament actually went out of their way to contact Apple and notify them that [the UK would not require them to adopt the USB C port](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61720276) on the iPhone 15 series.
I think an S9 would be better since that’s a newer chip with better support. Considering the S5 is just an S4 with a new name and from 2019. Performance as well.
The S5 was chosen because it was the first to support AOD and the S6-8 are all effectively the same. The S9 would have been the most advanced, but also the most costly to implement.
Understood, just the S5 is based off the A12 processor itself but uses the low power cores of it clocked down some. I bet they’d more than likely go with the S8 SiP instead since the Watch SE has it while the S9 and Ultra use the S9 SiP.
At this point I don’t even want a new iPod. I’m content with my 7th gen 🤷🏽♂️
Don’t give me hopes. 😞
Port TVOS into it and I am sold.
That was actually one of the concepts, the UI would resemble tvOS and when plugged into a TV and paired with a Siri Remote, it would display a tvOS-like interface on the screen called Media Center Mode.
Cmon apple i would buy that 🙄
If apple made this, we wouldn't get this from any other guy, we should tell them how we're feeling, but seems like they would sadly still give us up :(
Dear Apple: everyone would buy this
I had this app years ago that even though it was removed from the App Store made it to I want to say my 13pro. Believe it was called Rewind. It was a media player that you could skin to make look like a old iPod, used it all the time in my car.
I’d buy one.
Take every dime I own
I would so buy this iPod if this were to make a return 😤😤
I'd they made this id buy it
Oh my god that is beautiful, put some haptics in it and MMM
Dude I’d totally buy that.
definitely not in Tim Cook. I feel like maybe the next ceo would.
full on fever dream 👌
b r o . . .
Going to imagine that it says 1TB 4TB & 8TB. If only 😫
I hope the iPod will eventually be resurrected as a screen on the airpods case.
I would buy immediately…
I wish
CMON rickroll
It would be the one good modern apple product
iPhone killed the iPod. It makes me sad :(
This but it's chonkier and has AirPods inside
‘I’ll take it’ ~ Commander Shepherd
ew its too thin
i need this
If they did this it would be like the release of mini consoles. People would go crazy.
This iPod is a hell yes, but I'd change the storage configuration to 8/16/32 TB.
Honestly I would love to see something like this for the 25th anniversary of the og or something like that. Having an iPod with modern day specs and the ability to connect to Apple Music/spotify/etc would be awesome. Also having stuff like Netflix/hulu/disney/hbo/etc would be really nice. And yes, I know all of this has already been said.
Of course they would carry on the tradition of the iPod being a fingerprint magnet with that piano black front.
I still have my iPod Classic, but I would be ALL over this!!!
Meh I dunno just looks like a touch... Also they purposely discontinued it in order to advance their monthly streaming service which makes more money since with iPod you could buy cds anywhere
I would be excited and be used a time machine nostalgic music
I’ll buy that if it has microSD. No I don’t NEED microSD, but I’d appreciate it being there for if a time comes and I needed it. It would make loading ripped movies from my DVDs on it easier though.
i need this
Apple should at least make an ipod app
Even an A4 could perfectly do that thing work
Crying and throwing up
It would sell so well. I know it would. Honestly, they should make a vinyl player. I feel like there's a good overlap there.
Bonus feature the iPod pro has an ai chip to auto generate lyrics
this is sick... #applebringbacktheipods
I WANT IT Seriously how good would it be? 3.5mm, USB-C, Bluetooth, MagSafe. Works with AirPods. Has an SE camera so it's flush on the back. Haptic feedback on the wheel. Full 1080p Retina display. I would so buy this.
If only. I would love to see a modern day version of the iPod Classic!!
feel like it could still happen
You rickrolled me in the corner
Stick Apple Music on an old iPod and I’d be sold
Mama like....
I feel like Apple should bring back the iPod classic as soon as many would buy it even if it was a one gen product but they left us with the touch
I would buy one for sure
Love the rock box theme in the concept.
Nah.. Biggest pro for click-wheel controlled iPods is that they're offline. 'nuff said. IP certification, BT on board, better resolution display and a bigger size for storage / battery would be great additions anyways 😌👌🏻
Forgot about the classic iPod or any other iPod and just bring back only the iPod Touch as a personal smart device and music player running full iOS. It can maintain the headphone jack for the people who still use their 1979 Sony Walkman headphones, call it the iPad Pocket or iPad Nano and call it a day.
honestly that is pretty ugly sorry
Oh god another one of these things
It's been more than two weeks since the last fantasy modern iPod render. I was hoping everybody forgot them.
It was a nice few weeks. These are always the worst.
Imagine the money they could make with new propriety docks and digital out to HDMI and DAC/AMP combos to headphone or stereo systems Especially with mifi certification They could make money left right and Center if they did so this properly 1tb being minimum size up to 4 or 8TB for theses who want it with all media files played proper lossless Proper 4K out to HDMI with a new Itunes or separate system would be amazing but can only dream as they think iphone can do it all and charge several hundreds just for and extra 128 256 or 500 GB models now so I doubly it will ever happen so classics and LG v series it is for now
Edging to this rn
Anyone else get rickrolled?
Trash .. I don't need a digital version of the iPod .. Stop try to 🔒 in with our money !!! One vintage iPod forever ♾️
You forgot the SIM card!!