Goodbye iPod, your 13 yrs on Earth were appreciated!!!

The Washington Post reminds us today that the iPod as we knew it, is no more.

It came in with a simple promise, a hefty price tag and a man with something white sticking in his ears bopping around his apartment. Soon, it would transform music as we know it, inspire a business model built around pocket change and turn a struggling computer maker into the most valuable company in the world.

Yet the death Tuesday of the iconic iPod just before its 13th birthday went unacknowledged by that company and by a Silicon Valley crowd that wildly applauded the unveiling of a new phone and a smartwatch — products that stood on the slim, metal shoulders of its predecessor. Instead of an announcement, there was only the sad implication of a redirected online page, sending visitors not to information about the iPod Classic but rather to Apple’s home page.

I verified this, and it's true. Not even here in the Australian store, you can find an iPod.

For the divise that took Apple out of dire straits, this is a very unceremoniously farewell.

Well, long live the iPod, the gadget that got me hooked to everything Apple, as it was meant to do.