'What a Shame': A Generation Mourns as Apple Announces It Will Discontinue Beloved Device

The tech giant announced that it will be discontinuing production of the music-playing product on Wednesday.

By?Emily Rella?May 11, 2022

The glory days of the early 2000s were elite for millennials.

It was the age of updating your Top 8 friends on your?MySpace?profile, messaging your friends (and crushes) on AIM and figuring out ways to download songs off of Limewire or Kazaa, only to sync them to your?iTunes library?where you could transfer them for portable listening onto this new?device by Apple?that was called in iPod.

Last week, Apple broke the hearts of many (and made many feel very old) by?announcing that it would be sunsetting?the production of the iPod.

The iPod, which first debuted over 20 years ago in 2001, was the first of its kind MP3 player that raised the brows of many with its original brow-raising “1,000 songs in your pocket” tagline.

The tech giant made the announcement Wednesday that the only remaining iPod that’s still on shelves — the?iPod Touch?— would only be sold until supplies last before Apple closes the chapter on the revolutionary music-playing device.

“Music has always been part of our core at Apple, and bringing it to hundreds of millions of users in the way iPod did impacted more than just the music industry — it also redefined how music is discovered, listened to, and shared,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing said in a?company release. “Today, the spirit of iPod lives on. We’ve integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the?iPhone?to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad, and Apple TV. And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound quality with support for spatial audio — there’s no better way to enjoy, discover, and experience music.”

Fans poured their hearts out on social media upon hearing the news, sharing -

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