The iPod was a product in an interesting time... if you ignore the screen, a modern mp3 player could be made as small as a SD card... as soon as you add the screen, you need a full operating system to manage files and run the screen. Nobody wants to put the effort into something that's going to be as basic as a mp3 player.

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Rohansi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> as soon as you add the screen, you need a full operating system to manage files and run the screen

More software? Sure. An operating system? No. There were (are?) plenty of cheap MP3 players that had screens but just drive it with some budget microcontroller.

	▲	nubinetwork 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And they're all e-waste nuggets sitting in dankpods' storage closet... :)

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trencedamp 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It barely needs a screen. I adored my minidisc players and they were all basically calculator displays

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ezst 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Would you still adore it as much today, though? I know I don't adore my iPod classic as much now as I did in 2006, and that's inclusive of the nostalgia kick. It's just not very practical and usable in today's world.

	▲	thejazzman 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I still adore the hell out of my 512GB (SD) iPod Classic/Minis You can buy new shells, colors, storage adapters, batteries, etc. https://github.com/jmonster/podhnologic
	▲	SpecialistK 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't use it daily, but I enjoyed rediscovering and using my MiniDisc stuff that I was inspired to build a pretty popular website around it :)

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youngtaff an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I adored my MiniDisc too but the limited storage of a single disk makes it easy to find the music you want

Given how much we can store in solid state not sure I’d want to navigate my library without a screen

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fortyseven 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I find this seriously underestimates what jackets 6 will undertake for fun, even unpaid.