If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Music is life for a lot of people, and the original iPod made it possible to carry an ...

Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

Kim: But sales have been in decline for over a decade. How did the iPod go from being one of the most popular gadgets to being basically nonexistent? In 1999, the US music industry had its biggest ...

The original iPods had a shiny metal back, although scratches meant they didn’t stay shiny for very long. As lovely as the current iPod touch is, we think it’d look even better with shiny metal.

The original iPod is considered iconic, but Apple has bullishly cut support for legacy technologies over the years. Apple has made controversial moves, like axing the headphone jack, citing a ...

but as the direct descendant of the original iPod, it signals the end of an era to a certain degree. The iPod shuffle, nano and touch remain on sale, at least for now.

We recently reported on how someone managed to figure out how to connect an original iPod to an M4 MacBook Pro. If you’re not interested in investing in $100 worth of adapters but still yearn ...