As early as Keynote on September 9, 2014, we knew that something was going to change at Apple with the introduction of the new iPhone. Everything has been fulfilled and the new models of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been a success wherever they are launched. However, in a totally hidden way, Apple was giving a total retirement to the only iPod with a wheel that remained, the iPod Classic.
Now, more than a month after this action by the Cupertino, Tim Cook explains the causes in the WSJD Conference. From an objective point of view, their disappearance is justified.
In the round of questions that Tim Cook has been asked at the WSJD Conference, there has been a very important question for a large group of users and that is to know the reasons why the mythical iPod Classic has stopped being sold. The response of the CEO of Apple is that there has come a time when the company had no physical possibilities to find suppliers of important parts for it, since the companies that supplied these parts prefer to dedicate themselves to new technologies.
However, the death of this iPod model was also sung and it is the only device that continued to mount rotating hard drives for internal storage. In addition, it was the only device that Apple was going to have available in its stores with the connector Dock and not the new Lightning. At the same time, the possibility of getting the iPod Classic and the iPhone 4S, which are the ones with a Dock connector, has disappeared.
Little by little Apple has been directing all its devices towards the new connector in addition to providing all of them with solid storage memories or SSD in the case of their computers. Now we will continue to pay attention to the range of iPods, because the lack of news about them is already being worrying and is that with the flagships that are the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, little sense is already having this type of device. It may be that in a short time we will witness the definitive death of the iPod range. Will it be with the departure of the Apple Watch?