Apple celebrates iPod's 25th anniversary with fun easter egg

23 October 2026
You can now groove out to 2000s hits in your browser with this fully interactive digital version of the first iPod.


Sam N8 808 owner, 26 Oct 2026They didn't quite leave the market. What they did was... moreIndeed, when you put it that way, they just shifted to the better money-grabbing schemes... 🤭 Smartphones can be made obsolete much faster than a mere music player and once they finally discovered they can make disposable headphones in 2016... 🤯🤯🤑🤑

Those of us who know a thing or two about tech beside what Apple invented or "invented" were looking in confusion trying to understand what's now the big deal about tech we used on dumb- and smartphones at the time of the first iPhone, which, shockingly, didn't have support for Bluetooth stereo, but not everything in life has to make sense.

    User935, 24 Oct 2026Quite surprising they left the market... Since you're ... moreThey didn't quite leave the market.
    What they did was, they innovated the iPhone (1) in 2007, and it was essentially what the market wanted:- a high quality music player in a phone.

    For some weird reason, Apple skipped the 3.5mm jack from iPhone 7 onwards, and for even weirder reason, customers let Apple survive this identity holocast... I mean iPhone was a iPod that was a phone, so what happened?

    Today's customers are lunatic zombies:- you remove the 3.5mm jack and high quality music, they don't care. Reasons? Unknown. Maybe fanboyism.
    They'll gladly quote me too, but I never got one logical reason.

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      • Anonymous
      • Mnb
      • 25 Oct 2026

      I had the Philips HDD 120 premium mp3 player and I think it was as good if not better than the iPod, especially when it comes to sound quality and design.

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        • Anonymous
        • YYX
        • 25 Oct 2026

        Carol-, 23 Oct 2026Yeah, they really changed everything..... in the price rang... moreWhat about the scroll wheel?

          [deleted post]And you're honestly convinced your post makes you look smart? 🤔

            Carol-, 23 Oct 2026Yeah, they really changed everything..... in the price rang... moreQuite surprising they left the market... Since you're on the price range topic, have you seen the latest Sony Walkmans? Got announced a couple of days ago. 🤑

            Think I'll stay with my WM1AM2 for the time being 🤭

              The last iPod Touch was basically a WiFi-only iPhone. If Apple really want people to pay more money for the whole "bRaNd eCoSyStEm" bs nonsense, they would have continued making a new version by using the iPhone SE as the base.

                Carol-, 23 Oct 2026I mean, nobody needed to be filthy rich to buy one, more li... moreThere is a fine line between being visionary and stupid but unfortunately you have to be visionary to see that

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                  • PT1996
                  • nvW
                  • 24 Oct 2026

                  Carol-, 23 Oct 2026Why?Look up Fosi Audio's MP3 player

                    I spent a hour just listening to music on a virtual ipod 😊

                      Anonymous, 23 Oct 2026Never had one, my parents weren't filthy rich to have ... moreI mean, nobody needed to be filthy rich to buy one, more like unbeliavable stupid🤷🏻‍♂️.

                        Anonymous, 23 Oct 2026can they release it again? thanksWhy?

                          Anonymous, 23 Oct 2026Can still remember it, the ipod changed everything. And as ... moreYeah, they really changed everything..... in the price range. Digital music players were already everywhere when Apple came up with the idea of making: an MP3 player. But well, It all lines up pretty well with their idea of making smartphones or foldables. They were always the first… to be the last, of course.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 3gc
                            • 23 Oct 2026

                            can they release it again? thanks

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 60J
                              • 23 Oct 2026

                              Anonymous, 23 Oct 2026Never had one, my parents weren't filthy rich to have ... moreThat sont came when I was adult, so 6 or 7 years after ipod came out

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 60J
                                • 23 Oct 2026

                                Never had one, my parents weren't filthy rich to have a Mac at home, and my own money wasn't enough for one at that age.

                                I did have a genereic MP3 player with 128mb of storage, those that looked like a USB stick and had a build in USB-A on them, and used 1x AAA battery.

                                Used that thing for many years until I got myself a Sony MP4 player with 4gb of storage.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • y2e
                                  • 23 Oct 2026

                                  Anonymous, 23 Oct 2026Can still remember it, the ipod changed everything. And as ... moreI was using portable MP3 players in 1999 and 2000. They really changed everything about portable music for me.

                                  Apple came out with the iPod a few years later and it cost too much ($399 lol)

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • iJp
                                    • 23 Oct 2026

                                    Anonymous, 23 Oct 2026Somehow you can't buy an iPod brand new and straight f... moreDidnt they had some? Like the touch version. I still have the classic, works fine after all the years

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • uCh
                                      • 23 Oct 2026

                                      Somehow you can't buy an iPod brand new and straight from a n Apple store anymore...

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • iJp
                                        • 23 Oct 2026

                                        Can still remember it, the ipod changed everything. And as always, Apple has integrated and perfected the best features for a good everyday device.

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