After a flurry of announcements regarding its fantastic new product lineup that caused Apple lovers around the world to salivate, the company also readjusted its existing product inventory yesterday. A visitor on the Apple website will find plenty of tech to ogle, minus one product--the device that essentially defined Apple's foray into mobile over ten years ago.
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The iPod Classic is dead. The gadget that changed the way the world listens to music is officially not for sale any more. Some folks are already climbing aboard the nostalgia train, weeping for the innocence of a decade ago.
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"I know what you're thinking: Didn't the iPod Classic die a long time ago?" laments Gizmodo's Adam Clark Estes. "In some people's hearts, it surely did. But not this blogger's. For me, that old clickwheel will keep on spinning, round and round forever."
Of course, the iPod Touch (which basically is just an iPhone without the ability to make calls), iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano are all very much available on the Apple website.
The one feature the iPod Classic had over all other options was storage-the biggest iPod Classic last released could hold 160GB of music. However, the new iPhones have 128GB versions (double the highest of last year's) and there's reason to believe later versions could even surpass the iPod Classic's media storage.
