Bye-bye, classic iPod? Apple's original MP3 player may soon die off
Ten years ago, like millions of others, I bought a very small (for its time), new-fangled gadget that could play thousands of songs and that I could carry in my pocket or purse. It kicked my Walkman to the curb, and I never looked back. Apple's iPod …
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Op-ed: Why the days are numbered for the legacy iPod
Come this October, the classic iPod as we know it will be 12 years old. And over the last 12 years, the iPod has had a pretty good run. It has arguably been one of a couple of ideas that turned Apple around as the company was teetering on free-fall …
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iPhone, iPad, iPod among top four mobile devices, driving 39% of ad impressions
Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are three of the top four mobile devices in use worldwide, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all mobile ad impressions, according to new figures out from Millennial Media. The mobile advertising and data platform …
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More on playlists and syncing music to an iPod shuffle
I get lots of questions about playlists: how to create them, how to work with them, and how to organize them. In this week's column, I look at several questions related to playlists, and I also tackle a bonus question about syncing music to an iPod …
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Counting down the iPod's days
Ars Technica Editor-at-Large Jacqui Cheng offered up an opinion on Thursday on "Why the days are numbered for the legacy iPod." The original iPod with scroll wheel was introduced in October 2001. The currently selling iPod classic was introduced in …
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Happy anniversary to the venerable iPod touch
The iPod touch was introduced on this date way back in 2007 at an Apple music event. Steve Jobs gave the keynote address at that event (video below), but it's hard to imagine that the first generation (pictured above) didn't even have a proper speaker.
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The U2 iPod: A Lesson from Apple to Android on Product Placement
Branded products don't have to come off as incredibly dorky and non-sensical as Android's new operating system KitKat, named after the Nestlé-owned chocolate bar, just ask Apple. Google picked the candy as the code-name for Android 4.4 just for fun …
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