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IPhone 4s
“It gave us Siri, sold by the millions, and said goodnight gently.”
“A thousand songs in your pocket, and the click wheel still knows the way.”
The iPod Classic — originally just the iPod until the classic suffix arrived with the sixth generation in 2007 — was Apple's portable media player, beloved for doing one thing extremely well. Across six distinct generations (plus the iPod Photo spin-off that later rejoined the line), every model ran on a 1.8-inch hard drive, which meant room for your entire music library, not just a playlist. From 2007 onward it came
On September 9, 2014, Apple discontinued the iPod Classic, and with it went an era. The 2009 revision of the sixth-generation Classic, alongside the 5th generation iPod Nano, holds the distinction of being the last Apple products to use the distinctive click wheel. Nothing quite replaced it — it just clicked its last click.
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“It gave us Siri, sold by the millions, and said goodnight gently.”
“OneNote was born here; the rest is sticky notes and nostalgia.”
“Swap the shell, keep the memories: the Lumia 820 retired with its colors intact.”