This has saddened and annoyed me at the same time. The Classic was the Apple’s first digital music player, and although the original debuted in 2001, there were six generations released up until 2007.
When Apple’s online store came back online yesterday, following its iPhone 6 event, this later model was missing from the iPod lineup.
Apple did not make any formal announcement about ceasing the line.
According to an earnings report earlier this year, Apple's iPod Classic sales in the final quarter of 2013 had dropped 52 per cent year-on-year.
Apple also lost 55 per cent in revenue on all models of the music player, compared to the previous year, and the iPod makes up less than 2 per cent of the company's overall income.
The drop in sales is being attributed to the increase in music apps, cloud storage and streaming services including Spotify.
I have over 100gb of music on my Ipod Classic which I use in the car and connected to a set of speakers in my kitchen so when im cooking. I can choose anything from my vast collection to listen to.
I have no interest in using cloud and spotify as 1 they do not have the music that I listen to on there. 2 I am not using up my bandwith/data allowence just to listen to music, when I have a device that can do the job.
So I will not be updating Itunes at any point now as no doubt the Classic will be unsported at the next update. There is a market for a large capacity music player as people have been snappng up 2nd Classics since the news of it's demise has come out.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...usic-fans.html
When Apple’s online store came back online yesterday, following its iPhone 6 event, this later model was missing from the iPod lineup.
Apple did not make any formal announcement about ceasing the line.
According to an earnings report earlier this year, Apple's iPod Classic sales in the final quarter of 2013 had dropped 52 per cent year-on-year.
Apple also lost 55 per cent in revenue on all models of the music player, compared to the previous year, and the iPod makes up less than 2 per cent of the company's overall income.
The drop in sales is being attributed to the increase in music apps, cloud storage and streaming services including Spotify.
I have over 100gb of music on my Ipod Classic which I use in the car and connected to a set of speakers in my kitchen so when im cooking. I can choose anything from my vast collection to listen to.
I have no interest in using cloud and spotify as 1 they do not have the music that I listen to on there. 2 I am not using up my bandwith/data allowence just to listen to music, when I have a device that can do the job.
So I will not be updating Itunes at any point now as no doubt the Classic will be unsported at the next update. There is a market for a large capacity music player as people have been snappng up 2nd Classics since the news of it's demise has come out.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...usic-fans.html




