Why Do iPods Exist in 2017? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin in front of me

is something just a little bit unusual

these are iPods and no that's some relic

from the mid-2000s these are iPods you

can go out and buy today but the

question is why to start with we have

the iPod Touch and this is probably

going to be the most familiar it is very

much based on the iPhone just with less

phone stuff but when we get to the iPod

Nano things get a little bit more

strange this guy came out in 2012 and

really hasn't been updated since so on

the surface it looks like a tiny iPod

touch in fact it does run some sort of

Frankenstein version of iOS but there's

a lot stripped out of it however nothing

is more stripped-down than the iPod

shuffle the shuffle hasn't been updated

since 2010 so we're still rocking a

whopping 4 gigabytes of no it's - it's 2

gigabytes what I thought this is for

this just seems like such a relic of a

different time to be fair at $50 the

shuffle is about one of the cheapest

Apple products that you can buy but it

just seems so weird that this is still

on sale in 2017 and so do we get the

actual shuffle itself you know what I

don't think I've ever actually tried one

of these I know I used to have the

second gen which was there's still the

square guy but is a little bit bigger

there we go

see how cool am i've to you bites of

music on my shirt right now start here

oh boy sure this is gonna be some very

useful instructions on how to use my

ipod shuffle dental team install the

latest version of iTunes oh joy whoa

wait a minute wait a minute yo these are

the original they have a name the

original iPod headphones wait wait wait

dave has that iPod smell yo this booth

bring me back right now that's crazy

though it's so old that they literally

haven't even updated it with ear pods

which have been out for like five years

now it's so weird that this is being

sold today I mean this is not the same

Apple who makes the MacBook Pro with no

ports and the iPhone with no headphone

jack I mean it's all they put on this

they didn't put anything else it's

literally just a headphone jack alright

alright wait let's get a fair shot let's

give it a fair shot so to connect it to

the new MacBook

I have to do this into the MacBook

because I don't know I don't know what

I'm doing with my life right now

all right so now comes the fun part of

trying to remember how to set up an iPod

and I do oh hello and this is I haven't

used iTunes and so long I've been using

Spotify for all of my music I actually

need to see what iTunes music I still

have oh no there's Nickelback

there's seal why is there seal yeah we

can we can cut this part out right they

don't even know I ever listen to

Nickelback wow this sounds terrible no

no no okay so these might have been okay

back in the iPod days these sounds off

forgot how bad these sounds I feel like

they were fine back in the day but even

like new ear pod sound a lot better

well the real advantages of the shuffle

I feel like the only reason why I could

think of someone actually buying it

today is the fact that especially for

like working out or something yeah I get

it

it's kind of cool they've been making it

forever but like I really can't think of

any reason why you should buy one of

these in 2017 moving all the way up to

2012 we have the iPod Nano now I gotta

say the Nano has a little bit of a UH

sweet spot in my heart this is my very

first iPod I remember back in the day it

was so cool but now I'm not so sure I

will give them one thing this thing is

really tiny and unlike the shuffle which

is tiny for an app particularly a great

reason this actually is sort of the full

I pod I mean you've got a touchscreen

you've got a weird home button there's a

lightning port which is unbelievably

modern and not from 2010 yep

download iTunes of course so while this

does have Bluetooth it does not have

Wi-Fi so you're still not going to be

able to have any sort of streaming music

or well anything that doesn't feel like

it's not five years old although we do

have that is actually not five years old

our ear pods read your pause five years

old this is more like it

so while ear pods might not be the

greatest sounding headphones in the

world

honestly I actually don't mind them

especially for when I'm working out and

want something that's a little bit

smaller all just brings me back so much

back when we actually had to plug in via

USB cables and rip CDs and we are in

this is straight up like old-school iOS

so we've got the blue icons we can swipe

back

you've actually got radio I mean I'm not

so sure how often the radio is gonna be

super helpful but since this is the only

form of streaming music to your iPod it

actually works out pretty well

the Nano is a really hard word for me to

justify I mean sure it's cool to the

small and having the touchscreen is nice

but man you've got to be a very specific

kind of person who wants to spend $150

on something like this when you can get

something like an iPhone or an iPod for

just a little bit more with the iPod

Touch we at least have something that

was made in 2015 it actually does

reasonable specs so we've got the same a

processor from the iPhone 6 and as far

as the actual design goes this is not

that far off from modern iPhones you

know this design is actually still

really nice so not only am I really a

big fan of that blue color but this is

nice and thin and oh shucks amazement it

has a headphone jack but once you

actually fire this thing up you should

find that it's still running a fully

up-to-date version of iOS the best part

about the iPod is that it runs the full

app store which means that pretty much

any apps that will run on the iPhone

will run here most importantly for me as

an iPod I can use Spotify Apple music

whatever I want

okay so well this does have a speaker

the other iPods lack it's not exactly

great but that's where the ear putts

come in that sounds a lot better still a

huge fan of ear pods but the nice thing

about the iPod touch is that it actually

has a reasonable amp and DAC inside

nothing crazy but if you want to listen

to some proper headphones so much better

not only is it nice to have Spotify on

the iPod touch but even if you're away

from Wi-Fi you can still download the

files locally the iPod touches a little

bit of a weird one because on one hand

it makes a lot more sense than any of

these other iPods but on the other if

you have a smart phone that really is

not a lot of point to getting the iPod

touch and that's kind of the biggest

issue as you can actually pick up an

iPhone 5s off contracts for about the

same money so should you buy an iPod in

2017 No

No maybe I feel like while the iPod

Touch does make some sense in the lineup

it is really crazy that Apple still

sells this entire range of iPods but

what do you guys think was last time you

used an iPod let me know in the comments

below and I will catch you in the next

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