The Mini went everywhere with me for years until it was stolen out of my car in my high school parking lot. Most of all, it didn’t skip every time the car hit a bump like a bunch of the other hard drive-based players I had. It held four gigs of music, which even back then felt like less than some of its competitors, but it was tiny and fast and the thing felt like magic. I had a string of crappy other MP3 players, a Diamond Rio and an Archos Jukebox, but then I bought a gold iPod Mini. The iPod was the first “cool” gadget I ever owned. The next day, as I was getting out of my very cool minivan, it slid out of my pocket and fell onto the concrete driveway, shattering the screen. Miraculously, it worked, and my iPod was back to running stock iOS 5. After a few months, I decided to dig the device out of my closet and give restoring it another shot. At one point, I uninstalled something that was apparently essential using the jailbreaking tool Cydia and was completely unable to restore the iPod back to working condition. I still have that iPod, though its battery no longer holds a charge.įast forward a few years, and I was a stereotypical techy teen with a jailbroken and modded iPod Touch fourth gen. The cashier must’ve realized how shattered I was because they offered to cover the rest in what was almost certainly the greatest act of kindness I’d experienced in my young life. I hadn’t considered sales tax and was short a few dollars. The greatest act of kindness I’d experienced in my young life Finally, I was about to get my first iPod. When I finally had enough, I marched into Toys R Us and picked out a blue one. The main problem was that I was 12, and $149 was a lot of money for me - so I spent months scraping together allowances, money from mowing lawns, and gift cards. My first MP3 player was actually a 2GB Walkman, but as soon as I saw the “Nano-chromatic” ad for the fourth-gen iPod Nano, I decided I was going to buy it. I have two iPod stories: one about the first one I ever got and another about the last one I purchased new. Here are our memories of buying iPods, rediscovering them, nurturing them back to life, and sometimes just losing them. Plus, we’ve got a lot of scars from these things getting destroyed or “going missing.” After 20 years, Apple announced this week that it was discontinuing the final product in the brand that defined music players in the mid-2000s and helped catapult Apple to mainstream success.Ī lot of us at The Verge have fond memories of our days spent using the music players over that two-decade run, so we decided to write some of them down to reflect not just on what a great music player it was but also what an important device it was in our lives at the time.
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