Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the entire iPod line was getting updated at the company’s
music-related media event in 2009, but the iPod Classic was conspicuously missing from
the day’s announcements. Despite Jobs’s statement, the iPod classic didn’t get updated… but it wasn’t dropped from the lineup, either.
The iPod Classic is the only hard drive-based iPod in Apple’s product lineup, and since the current Nano went “touch”, the Classic is the only model that retains with the familiar Click Wheel design — a familiar part of the iPod’s iconic image ever since it was first introduced in 2001.
Apple unveiled the new iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod touch at the media event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. All of those models used flash chips for storage instead of a hard drive.
While offering the highest storage capacity of any iPod model, it also offers surprisingly long battery life, too. The iPod classic can run for 36 hours in audio playback mode, compared to the iPod touch’s 40-hour playback time.
When it comes down to bringing your entire music library with you, the Classic is still the way to go for true music lovers. It would be a definite loss if Steve Jobs decides to kill the iPod Classic. But then again, with Jobs health in decline, he may be focused on other things right now.
Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.
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