Tony Fadell is not nostalgia for the iPod Classic

After 13 years of its existence, iPod classic left-deserved rest. One of its founders, Tony Fadell, who is currently running on Google, told that destroyed the once-popular player, and why we should not worry about it.

How I should feel the person who realized that his offspring forever leaves the market? Just ask Tony Fadell. Before he took up thermostats Nest and founded the company, he was one of Apple's most recognizable faces.

Success came to him in 2001, when the first the iPod, a revolutionary media player, which is the first step on the path to multi-billion dollar profits. And Tony he was in charge until 2008, until he had left Apple and started his business path.

Last week, Apple sent to retire the iPod Classic, the latest model, which resembles the original iPod. In a telephone interview Fadell admitted that he had from that sad. "The last decade iPod was a huge part of my life. The team that worked on it, do your best to make it that way. " Eighteen months after its launch, the iPod has led to the creation of a whole category of portable media players. "With products it does not happen often," - said Fadell. - «iPod was one in a million."

And at the same time, Tony admits that the iPod was created to die. "It was inevitable that something had to take his place. You know, in 2003 or 2004, we began to ask ourselves what can kill the iPod. And even then at Apple, we know that it is streaming music. We called it "heavenly jukebox", and now we have it under the title "Music in the cloud."

But not only streaming music could kill the iPod Classic. People who have used players in their cars, have replaced their smartphones. In those new iPhone 6 may be present as much as 128 GB of free space. And even if all of it will be scored, the smartphone will be able to play music from the cloud.

"I'm going to miss the iPod, I loved it," - said Fadell. - "But it happens sometimes. I likewise once loved his Apple II, and it passed. You will not be nostalgic for a long time about it. Yes, there are people who would like to return to the Commodore 64 or Amiga. It's cute, but because time is moving forward. It is better to look forward to the future. "

As for the future of music, this is not the iPod, iPhone or iPad. These are applications that will work with your mind. "Now the access to all the existing music, which we could only dream of, is the new Holy Grail. And at the moment, with the help of artificial intelligence, our heavenly jukebox can find the perfect song for every situation. "

And at the end of the conversation Fadell joked that rather than hold a symbolic funeral of his creation, he will simply add to your playlist on your iPod music, uplifting.