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Comment by zitterbewegung | Hacker News Reader

The real iPod killer was the iPhone . They disrupted themselves and usually companies don't want to do that .

I just wish they'd still make a decent iPod. All I want is a really light music player with physical buttons, like the first few generations of the iPod Nano.

I'm aware this is probably a fairly small market, but it's gotta be bigger than whoever's buying the current pricey Nano with its crappy faux-iOS touch interface.

I still use my classic iPod. I'm amazed the thing still works. I expected the hard disk to fail long ago. I had to replace the battery twice, but that's only a few dollars nowadays.

I still use my classic 5th gen with Wolfson DAC daily - it's plugged into my car. My hard drive did fail and I found a guy on eBay that took out my hard drive and replaced with 500gb ssd card. All lossless, all the time. It's awesome and extremely light too.

I don't think many people still use anything other than their phones for portable music players. Doesn't make sense to carry another device.

Heck, lots of people given up on compact cameras, where phones are still (and will be for the foreseeable future) subpar in quality, and they will carry another device just for music that doesn't really add anything?

I'm actually considering from time to time to get a separate portable music player, so that I can go to work without the phone and not get distracted by it all the time.

Considering what we ended up with, Apple would probably be in serious financial trouble if they didn't disrupt themselves.

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