Disappointing overview iPod line: why save us only Shuffle

Once Steve Jobs gave the iPod world, and it changed the world (as it seemed to Steve). However, not only to him: the digital music industry has really left a new track and rolled in the footsteps of iPods. It was 2001, we were young, our bodies craved drugs, women and music. iPod could give us only the music, but we are grateful to him for that.

Since then, the world has changed much more time Steve Jobs released the iPhone, three additional models of iPods, iPad and almost did not let the mobile phone in the shape of the head Jony Ive called IVE, but died not managed. And now, after the death of Steve Jobs, our great strict father, we are witnessing the slow death of an iPod, once brilliant product that beats in the death throes of redesign and capacity increase now that the year. However, as is always the case in the good fairy tales, most nezrachny and confused, at first glance, the hero suddenly comes and saves the day. iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle - Frodo and Sam of our age, who once spat on the steep Touch and the Nano, went their way and gave a chance to save the entire line. Why - read on.

We will not engage in archeology and watch the transformation of an iPod. We - the hedonists, the generation of the "here and now", and therefore analyze what we have at the moment. We have four different models of iPods: Shuffle, Classic, Nano and Touch. Last, Touch, appeared later than others, and die earlier than others in full conformity with the principle of «Live fast - die young».

Once he was very cool - the first iPod with touch-screen! - but then very quickly it turned into a simple toy that can not do anything without vayf. Too big and expensive for a player, too useless for the mobile device. To protection of honor stood iPod Nano, which at that time already two years old. Here we are all the same descend a little into the maelstrom of history, namely, the sixth generation ipod Nano was really cool - a tiny player with touch screen, which can be hung on the clothes, like a clothespin, and worn on the hand, like clockwork. It's been a real iWatch, Which is now so buzzing online!

But he unfortunately fell to the evolution and the seventh generation of the Nano came stillborn: clothespin gone, gone compactness, sailed in distant future iWatch, and the lovely Nano degraded almost until the fifth generation with the only difference in the form of a cardinal touch-screen.

It turned into a very ordinary mp3-player that could make a splash about five years ago, but not today.

So now, in 2014, the year of the dark cellars of Asian corporations in the light creep PHABLET and ceiling, the last hope of the player becomes simple gonfalon Classic and Shuffle. Classic, this ancient titan who made the seemingly his mission and went to bed, again forced to defend all that is good and light, that is in the Apple.

Come on, leave for a minute epic pathos and discuss why the Classic is still in the cage. He, of course, hopelessly outdated with its Click Wheel, the once legendary Scroll Mouse. There's nothing on today's mobile devices: no touch screen, no Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth, or radio. Nothing in it is not present, except for exciting giant memory capacity: 160 GB.

This is - the thing for real music lovers. There can hold so much music that comes to mind for the mind. Hell, yes in my laptop less memory! Actually, the hard drive remains the only attractive feature of this giant. Unfortunately, Apple forgot about the fact that the yard - 2014 th, and ache for him the price, as the SSD. It is sad, but not much. All the same 160 GB - this is very serious.

However, each has its Goliath, David, and we, just for a moment back to pasofnomu tone, will tell you about the new messiah of the digital age: iPod Shuffle.

This player is the opposite Classic. He was a tiny, 3 by 3 centimeters, weightless - 12 grams, think! - and it is so dear to the clothespin. But there is nothing in the world perfect, except for Nikita Mikhalkov, so the amount of memory in it - only 2 GB. For this small amount of memory on it (on the iPod) laugh and not taken seriously, although, in my opinion, it is in vain.

iPod Shuffle - this is the last real music player, the only purpose of which is to reproduce music.

Music no longer requires CDs, tapes, batteries, bulky hard drives, it is now available as the air, but as the air remains necessary. It is the availability of music makes the iPod Shuffle so small, light, cheap and cool. Even now, when I have an iPhone with 32GB of on board, I'm thinking about buying Shuffle due to its player control buttons. No touch, like the iPhone, which has to get out of his pocket every time you need to replace or rewind the song, and the very real, live buttons that want to push again and again. Incredibly low weight, combined with a pin Shuffle makes the ideal solution for those who like listening to music while exercising.

As for the memory... I can hardly be mistaken in saying that only a very small part of people listening all your music collection. Most, like me, listen to a playlist, an album, and sometimes even one song for the whole day. The entire discography Green Day weighs little more than a gigabyte, and The Doors - and did 223 MB. In general, music, unlike Alexander Semcheva, does not weigh so much. iPod Shuffle - Player in a pure form, or for which it is no longer usable, and therefore do not need much memory there. Create a playlist for the next few days - it ten minutes, synchronization with iTunes at all will take a couple of seconds. It turns out that a small amount of memory - not such a headache. But if you still feel that Shuffle - not for men, then think about the price: 2000 rubles - Apple has never been cheaper.