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It\u2019s official: the iPod is over. After 20 years, Apple announced this week that it was discontinuing the final product<\/a> in the brand that defined music players in the mid-2000s and helped catapult Apple to mainstream success<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A lot of us at The Verge<\/em> have fond memories of our days spent using the music players over that two-decade run, so we decided to write some of them down to reflect not just on what a great music player it was but also what an important device it was in our lives at the time. Plus, we\u2019ve got a lot of scars from these things getting destroyed or \u201cgoing missing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here are our memories of buying iPods, rediscovering them, nurturing them back to life, and sometimes just losing them.<\/p>\n
\nI have two iPod stories: one about the first one I ever got and another about the last one I purchased new.<\/p>\nMy first MP3 player was actually a 2GB Walkman<\/a>, but as soon as I saw the \u201cNano-chromatic\u201d ad<\/a> for the fourth-gen iPod Nano, I decided I was going to buy it. The main problem was that I was 12, and $149 was a lot<\/em> of money for me \u2014 so I spent months scraping together allowances, money from mowing lawns, and gift cards. When I finally had enough, I marched into Toys R Us and picked out a blue one. Finally, I was about to get my first iPod.<\/p>\n
\nThe greatest act of kindness I\u2019d experienced in my young life<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nI hadn\u2019t considered sales tax and was short a few dollars. The cashier must\u2019ve realized how shattered I was because they offered to cover the rest in what was almost certainly the greatest act of kindness I\u2019d experienced in my young life. I still have that iPod, though its battery no longer holds a charge.<\/p>\n
Fast forward a few years, and I was a stereotypical techy teen with a jailbroken and modded iPod Touch fourth gen. At one point, I uninstalled something that was apparently essential using the jailbreaking tool Cydia and was completely unable to restore the iPod back to working condition. After a few months, I decided to dig the device out of my closet and give restoring it another shot. Miraculously, it worked, and my iPod was back to running stock iOS 5.<\/p>\n
The next day, as I was getting out of my very cool minivan, it slid out of my pocket and fell onto the concrete driveway, shattering the screen. RIP to a real one. \u2013 Mitchell Clark<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe iPod was the first \u201ccool\u201d gadget I ever owned. I had a string of crappy other MP3 players, a Diamond Rio and an Archos Jukebox, but then I bought a gold iPod Mini. It held four gigs of music, which even back then felt like less than some of its competitors, but it was tiny and fast and the thing felt like magic. Most of all, it didn\u2019t skip every time the car hit a bump like a bunch of the other hard drive-based players I had.<\/p>\n
The Mini went everywhere with me for years until it was stolen out of my car in my high school parking lot. (I can still picture exactly where my car was parked, the weather that day, everything about the moment I discovered it was gone.) I couldn\u2019t afford another one, so I went back to my other devices, all of which now seemed lousy even though they actually held quite a bit more music. But I kept the white headphones because as long as I had those, it kind of felt like I still had an iPod. Until I hit a pothole and the thing skipped tracks. \u2013 David Pierce<\/strong><\/p>\n
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    A fifth-generation iPod.<\/figcaption>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
My first iPod was the fifth-gen iPod Video. The first-gen iPod came out in my freshman year of high school, and I watched enviously for years as all the rich kids showed theirs off between classes. In my junior year, I basically put together a PowerPoint for my dad, detailing my grades and all my silly high school achievements. My dad didn\u2019t say anything, and I sulked off, resigned to my fate.<\/p>\n
I was completely surprised when, a few weeks later, a package from Apple arrived at our door. My dad had a smirk on his face. It was the black version, too, since he knew I was a goth teen. (This was despite the fact he wished I\u2019d stop being goth with every fiber of his being). My dad was a stoic man, so he didn\u2019t really say much other than \u201cenjoy.\u201d Needless to say, I loaded that baby up with as many movies and songs as it would hold. It was my companion for late-night study sessions and hour-long commutes to school. More often than not, however, it was what I turned to as my parents muddled their way through a messy breakup. <\/p>\n\nSomething about my poor, loyal iPod Video lying shattered on a sidewalk made me tear up<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nYou could probably say something about sulky teens listening to emo music as their parents split up in explosive fashion. But it was an immense comfort to slip on my headphones and play my music, uninterrupted by notifications and apps.<\/p>\n
My iPod Video lasted me about three years, until one day, I dropped it on the sidewalk and it split open. By that time, I was very much over its buggy interface and a click wheel that didn\u2019t want to cooperate anymore. I wanted a newfangled iPod Touch. But something about my poor, loyal iPod Video lying shattered on a sidewalk made me tear up.<\/p>\n
I took it home and kept it in a box for years. I couldn\u2019t throw it out. I then forgot about it for almost a decade and, strangely, found it when cleaning out my junk in 2018. My dad had just died, but there, when I was missing him most, was one of the most precious gifts he ever gave me \u2014 a reminder of how much he loved me even if he couldn\u2019t express it. And maybe, just maybe, me finding it that day was my dad comforting me from beyond the grave. \u2013 Victoria Song<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMy \u201cfirst iPod\u201d story is a lot like David\u2019s. My first MP3 player was a Rio that could hold just a handful of songs, and for some reason, I have a very strong memory of one of those being a James Bond theme remix. My iPod Mini \u2014 in its glorious baby blue color \u2014 was a massive upgrade. It could hold way more songs than my Rio, and it was just fun to use. I still miss the scroll wheel! (I don\u2019t know if I put that James Bond song on it.) It\u2019s one of my favorite devices ever, and I wish I still had it. \u2013 Jay Peters<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The iPod Mini was my first iPod, and I\u2019m pretty sure that it aided in some minor hearing loss. I used it every day, nestled into its handy plastic cradle and tucked into my waistband, to drum to the beat of my favorite music as I was learning how to play, a hobby that further aided in said hearing loss. This iPod also joined me aboard my family\u2019s tractor when I had to mow our lawn every week, a chore that probably contributed to hearing loss, too. I have no incredible tales to tell about my ownership of this iPod, other than it went everywhere with me and dutifully did its job as a no-nonsense music player that also had Brick Game<\/em> built-in. \u2013 Cameron Faulkner<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMy first iPod was the very first iPod \u2014 and it was bought in a sweet attempt by my mom to cheer me up. I was excited to have so much storage on one device and to have an MP3 player that worked out of the box with iTunes. I used it constantly, sometimes plugged into one of those terrible tape decks and sometimes into one of those terrible FM transmitters. The tunes carried me along 12-hour drives back and forth from college, and having all my music in one place took the sting out of the loss of my favorite sleeve of mix CDs in a Dillard\u2019s parking lot in Tullahoma, Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n  <\/p>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Then, one day, it vanished. It wasn\u2019t in any of my purses. It wasn\u2019t in my car. It wasn\u2019t in my bedroom. I was home on summer break from college, so it definitely wasn\u2019t in my dorm room. It was simply gone. I got a much cheaper iPod Shuffle to replace it, and it wasn\u2019t nearly as good. For years I\u2019ve wondered if my younger brother secretly took it so he could look cool to the other high schoolers. <\/p>\n
I recently attempted to investigate this long lingering mystery, but the results of my investigation have been inconclusive. \u2013 Alex Cranz<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMy first iPod was the 40GB click wheel model. I bought it in like-new condition off eBay in 2005. My favorite thing about it wasn\u2019t the large storage space, the shiny finish that I protected in a Griffin clear case, or the plain cool factor. My favorite thing about it was a top-mounted FM radio transmitter accessory called iTrip. It looked like a water tank that plugged into the headphone jack yet somehow also looked like a natural extension of the iPod. Since it ran off the iPod battery, I could jump into a friend\u2019s car and just have them tune to 87.9, which was great since many cars did not have an aux jack or Bluetooth yet.<\/p>\n
When the iPod with video came out, I knew I had to have it. So I sold my iPod on eBay and bought my first brand new Apple product: a black 60GB fifth-generation iPod. I really wanted to protect this iPod, so I took it to a mall kiosk that applies clear vinyl protectors \u2014 big mistake. They used a razor blade to cut around the iPod wheel and completely scratched it up. They didn\u2019t take responsibility for it, so, in my sorrow, I sold it on eBay at a loss. I couldn\u2019t get myself to buy another new Apple device for a long time, but in the meantime, I played MP3s on Windows Mobile devices like the Cingular \/ HTC 2125<\/a> and on a Game Boy Advance licensed MP3 player accessory<\/a> that came with a 32MB compact flash card. \u2013 Umar Shakir<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nI grew up an Apple hater as a kid with a silly predisposition to dislike its products because I was all about gaming and PCs. I initially scoffed at the early iPods in favor of my Discman. I was the embodiment of this Penny Arcade<\/em> comic strip<\/a>. I didn\u2019t try or use an iPod for the longest time, but I piggy-backed on some of the \u201cwell, actually\u201d-style rhetoric I overheard about them not even having good sound quality. When downloading MP3s became a way of life, my eyes were trained on weird players from other brands like iRiver<\/a> and even Intel<\/a>. (How fitting, as an annoying PC fanboy, to think \u201cIntel!\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nI loved it despite its flawed, buttonless design<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nI couldn\u2019t afford any of them in high school, but, in early college, I landed on a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen<\/a> that was basically a laptop hard drive in an ugly plastic shell with a small monochrome screen. That thing was like a small tank of cheap removable storage that once got me openly mocked at a friend\u2019s drunken basement party when it was my turn to plug into the speakers. I definitely did not talk shit back to them while being secretly envious of their sleek iPods. Nope, not at all.<\/p>\n
My strong and misguided opinions toward Apple\u2019s products began to soften when I started using Macs in my college photography classes, and I eventually picked up my first and only iPod \u2014 a lime green third-gen iPod Shuffle<\/a>. I bought it for cheap on eBay to use while running, and that didn\u2019t pan out, of course. But I loved it despite its flawed, buttonless design. I still have it to this day, and if I ever find the annoying 3.5mm to USB charger, maybe I\u2019ll power it on and see if I can remember the earbud button sequences to control play, pause, skip, and rewind.<\/p>\n
Or maybe I shouldn\u2019t because I shudder to think what cringe music might still live on it. \u2013Antonio G. Di Benedetto<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMy first iPod was a hand-me-down from my older sister. It was a black iPod Classic filled with angsty songs that 7th graders probably shouldn\u2019t have had access to, like Panic! At the Disco\u2019s Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off<\/em>.<\/p>\n
That little machine was with me through the entirety of my most awkward (and attempted emo) phase. When I eventually got my very own second-gen blue iPod Nano, things didn\u2019t change. I plugged it into the family computer and loaded it up with my sister\u2019s collection of emo songs from iTunes, getting myself a copy of all the P!ATD<\/em>, The Academy Is<\/em>, and Taking Back Sunday<\/em> songs a preteen girl could hope for. <\/p>\nMy iPod is now collecting dust somewhere in my parents\u2019 house. Wherever you are iPod, I hope you\u2019re cozy in the blue sock<\/a> I bought you. \u2013 Emma Roth<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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