20 Years of iPod Documentary - ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rGmggKZ7a3xysGg.html Whenever you're annoyed Apple removed the headphone jack, just remember- it could be much, much worse. Hope you enjoy the video! Also, for those who're unaware, I actually have a tiktok page now - you can find me @91_tech on there as well as Instagram and Twitter! Join the discord! --- discord.io/91tech

i'd love to see how DankPods would review this product 🤣🤣

This is one of the strangest nuggets I had. It was once confiscated as a lighter lol

Broke: Discarding the headphone jack in favor of the charging port Woke: Discarding the charging port in favor of the headphone jack

I had this exact iPod, green and everything, and I absolutely LOVED it. I was running competitively at the time and this was the first time I was able to take music with my on workout runs that didn't weigh me down or skip at all. When it came out, I knew it was for me. To be frank, up until music came to smart watches, this was still my go-to music listening device for running.

This ipod has always been hilarious to me. I've hunted it down and bought one last month. The lack of UKposts videos on this was criminal. Thank you so much and sorry if this video gives them a price spike

I still own this one. With the engraving, "whisper word's of wisdom" on it. Got it with the money I made working at the local camera store during high school. Even bought a waterproof earbud set that you housed it in to go swimming. That was a great fall/summer for me when I picked up in 2009 I think. Toronto weather was great, I was working so had lots of disposable income, went out late with friends, was in great shape. The air just smelled and tasted better. Man I hated high school. But not that summer. I still keep this shuffle near me to remind me of that time. 12 years ago. Damn.

I had one as a freshman in 2009. it was nice for working out because it was very light and stayed clipped on. I did curse its low memory a few times trying to make the perfect playlist. The little voice had a knack for awkward pronunciation that had me in tears a few times.

DankPods would be so happy to see this nugget in his favourite colour, the Shrek Green

7:08 *opening old and unsealed apple products must require a blood sacrifice to appease the apple gods*

God I miss having a Shuffle. I remember spending so much time uploading my music to my original (and then the second and third gen) and eventually I listened to it so much that I had my entire library order memorized.

I had one of these as a kid and I had 2 alternatives to the included headphones, both made by Scosche. The first was a dongle with the 3 buttons that connected between the iPod and any 3.5 mm headphone plug (didn’t last long before it fell apart). The second was a case that you slid the iPod into with a built in plug that went into the iPod, it had the 3 buttons on the opposite side from the clip, and a 3.5 mm jack on top. I felt like such a badass using this to listen to music in class without getting caught, which was even easier because I didn’t have to pull it out of my pocket to scroll through playlists. I just wore a hoodie and stabbed a hole in one of the pockets to run the headphone wire through.

I remember a guy who used one as a tie clip, may get one for that

I had the green shuffle 3 when I was a teenager and thanks to it i was able to have an Apple MP3 player without much money. This videos brings back a lot of nice memories about it thanks.

13:56 the point at which I pass out... I can't stand the sight of blood.

Amazing Music Choice 👌 For anyone wondering here is the names of the music played: HOME - Resonance HOME - CD-ROM HOME - Mind HOME - Sunshower HOME - Dark Star HOME - Aquarium Gift Shop

Those hard plastic containers require a blood sacrifice to open. I’ve never successfully opened one without bleeding a little.

I remember when it came out and I got the Apple Store exclusive version, in which the whole Shuffle was made of stainless steel, as opposed to just the clip. I honestly loved it, and I thought it was just the coolest thing!

I had the first grey version of this, and fell in love with it. It was perfect when cycling or working out as I could clip it only my clothes and not have to find the device to operate it, as I could always reach the earbud wire. Being small was key and it excelled at that. even now I use Jaybird bluetooth earbuds with a wire connecting them (gives some security while cycling, although they have never popped out) and I always control them with the switch on the wire. Even now at gym I always operate music with AirPods. I think Apple was onto something here, but we just weren't ready for it

I remember having this exact ipod in 2011 & the only albums i had on them was green day & paramore🥲

lmao i still have a blue one somewhere around here. i'll find it occasionally when i open a certain drawer or go through a box in my closet. i can't remember where exactly. idk why i even bought one back in the day. i had a couple ipod touch's already at the time. the shuffle was so tiny though so i remember constantly losing it in my bag and having to dump everything out because digging around wouldn't be enough. i think i bought it for my dad so he could listen to his music on the aux in his car but he stopped using it after about a year because i never felt like adding new music to it for him when he asked and then i moved out. i remember he told me he saw an ipod commercial and was all hyped about them. it was pretty cool to see my dad stoked on technology cause the previous time i saw him like that was when the original xbox came out and he got us one.

91Tech: “I’m careful with my laptop” Also 91Tech: Places laptop on damp lawn for B-Roll footage…

Let’s remember Josh for his sacrifices at war. Josh 1 - iPod Shuffle 3rd Generation 0 💪

This is the “Apple Music voice plan” equivalent for iPods.

I have this version of the iPod Shuffle and it was "unleashed" when Scosche made a button case for it, which I have as well. It's a great size, even with this addition of the Scosche part, and still works like a charm even today.

I had this when I was 11 yrs old. Didn't find it too hard to use. It was aight. Cool that I didn't have to reach out for the device when navigating it. I also used it a lot as a flash drive. Given the context of that time, having one of these was still such a big deal in terms of what it can do while being this handy. Unfortunately it was too small that I lost it. Lol.

Had one of these when I was 6 (it was my first ever tech product), and I loved it. Lost it about 2 years later, which is pretty unsurprising given how small it is, but it was cool. Honestly if someone made one of these with a larger capacity, and perhaps supported bluetooth, I'd still use it, especially for podcasts.

I loved my 4th gen shuffle. It lasted a long time and had that convenient clip. I'm a fan of shuffling music and not as much making playlists or hunting around for the next track.

I still have mine from back when it first came out, it was super useful to keep in the car as it took up literally no space when plugged in to the USB port and you still had full library control via the cars display.

the gen4 shuffle is the best of all time. I use it everytime when I go for run and its just TOO PERFECT

I remember having this years ago and I have to say it was an interesting experience. It was a gift from my dad and I have to say that voice over was a neat feature!

This was a cool ipod, I had it when it first came out and the buttons on the headphones was a rad gimmick. And you can use 3rd party headphones just fine, the issue was if you used 3rd party headphones WITHOUT a microphone on them. It -required- the 3rd ring on the audio jack to function properly.

He cut his finger to make this, show him some respect. (looking at you, people who disliked the video).

I still have this. I've been using this for over a decade already; and I honestly love how convenient it is especially when traveling and running. This is also my first apple product, and this is the reason why I love Apple as this product showed how apple make sustainable products that could last long and functional even if it's been a decade old already.

I used to have this iPod, same color and everything. I ended up selling it because I didn't want to buy new earbuds from Apple every time the ones I had broke. It was around the time Spotify was becoming more and more popular, so it didn't make much sense to keep using that iPod anyway. Sometimes I still miss it though, especially during long road trips, and also just for that feeling of owning an iPod

This video taught me two things: 1) There's a third-gen Shuffle with no buttons. 2) The square Shuffle I mysteriously found in my room one day is a fourth-gen, not a refresh of the rectangular second-gen I got as a gift back in '07. I've never used the fourth-gen, but it's good to finally know what the button does.

Omg this was really something back in the day. So many memories.

I legit found out a about this yesterday because I was watching the 4th gen shuffle keynote and wanted to know more. You have some great timing.

I searched for videos about this iPod because it's my favorite product that Apple ever made. All these years later, I still miss it. It was a really, really beautiful and elegant product that worked great. Not hard to figure out the remote control on the cable. Volume up and down. Two taps to skip to next song, three taps to go back, one tap to stop, one tap to start, press and hold to skip to different albums or podcasts. Very fun, very easy.

I used to absolutely love mine. Was perfect for snowboarding or pretty much anything active. Even to this day I still mostly use the inline controller on my earbuds to control my music. Even though it's an Android phone now instead of a Apple device.

I have the mirror version of this one. It was great. Until I added an audio book to it and then it would randomly try and play a chapter of a book between songs. If you ever tried to pause the book it could skip instead of pause. So listening to books was a nightmare. Eventually a third party made a big adaptor. It gave you buttons on the actual iPod and you could use any 3.5mm Jack headphones with it.

I actually forgot (or, didn't know) this model existed. In 2010 (obviously after this came out) I was too caught up in the iPod Touch realm of things as well as the square iPod Nano with its touch screen, so this just passed me by. It seems like this just came and went. Truly a strange piece of tech indeed. It should've at least had volume controls IMO, or a physical mute switch. I do like the look of it however. It's extremely sleek and looks like it could fit anywhere. But this is an extreme example of something looking pretty but also being a pain to actually use. I think it'd actually be a cool device if it had all the traditional physical controls, but in that form factor and with the same appearance. That would've made for a compelling Shuffle, I think. Speaking of the iPod Touch, I also vaguely remember VoiceOver being a thing on there, if I'm remembering correctly. But I never used it, it was always just a vague settings option and nothing more.

Honestly, whenever I go for a run I just hit play on the same playlist every time. The shuffle is absolutely perfect for that.

Honestly I think this was less of a weird product than you imagine, when you realise that for most people this wasn’t their only iPod. The shuffle was really just a super small and lightweight thing to have 1 or 2 playlist on for going on a walk or a run, or in a situation when you wanted to have easy access to your favourites. You have to remember at the time that most bigger iPods were still pretty chunky and heavy (and expensive), so there were circumstances you wouldn’t really want to have them with you all the time.

I had this and as a kid my earphones broke and so I had to order a 3rd party controller extender for like $8 to use any earphones I wanted. I also usually just plugged in the ipod into my xbox 360 and used the music player function there. So many good memories as a kid

VoiceOver was introduced for the first time as a gesture based screen reader on the iPhone three GS. You are right about it being on macOS in 2007 though. VoiceOver on the iPod shuffle is nothing more than some clips that were gathered from your Mac back in the day.

I had one of these and it was my only music player for a long time. I memorised the entire library that my uncle loaded onto it for me (as he was my only relative with music on iTunes at the time), and even on shuffle I could identify every song within 1-2 seconds of it starting. Sadly it was so small I eventually lost it. I wish I still had it as it there was one song on there I really liked but have never been able to find. It was a melancholy song about a lonely boy and a hill, but that's all I can remember.

I remember these. I liked the second gen nano way more. I had saved up for a silver one when it came out and I used the hell out of it. Thing still works to this day

This was my first iPod and first Apple product of any kind and it was the starting point of my full switch to the Apple ecosystem, so it is weird to see that some people found it strange, for me it always felt intuitive to use (ok after the first few hours of geeting used to the controls). I would still be using it, but I find it hard to find compatible earphones, because the "new" earpods don't work :(

91 tech you are giving me the nostalgia feels with this review. Keep up the great work bro

I had the 2nd gen and I LOVED it! Before I basically had toy quality cassette and cd players as a kid. Going from those to a little clip on thing really felt like I jumped into the future! But even as a dumb teen, I saw the 3rd gen in stores and was like…’Why would anyone want that?!’ It’s neat that they could make a music player that small, and they basically invented controls on the headphones themselves, the 3rd gen was a novelty at best

I remember getting the 2nd gen shuffle for my 10th birthday, and immediately loading up System of a Down's Mezmerize

I had this iPod and loved it. It was great for the gym! They had a control adapter for any headphones. This was perfect for a set of Bose headphones I had a disconnection right a neck level. I would put on the adapter and clip the iPod to my shirt collar. I would no longer risk cords catching on machines or weights. For me it worked amazingly, but for sure it was a small market.

“I’m careful with my laptop… I try to keep it clean” Immediately shows laptop on the ground among grass 😂😂😂

I still have the 1st and 2nd gen Shuffle and 1st Nano in my drawer! Back in college I used the 1st gen Shuffle to listen to music and as a thumb drive for my schoolwork. I played around with them not too long ago and it’s amazing they still work after all these years.

i remembered using that first iPod shuffle for so long from 2006-2014 , it was a hassle when everyone moved on to smartphones

This was the first iPod I ever bought with my own money. I was in middle school and I just kept saving every penny I got until I finally got my own iPod. I got the Black/space grey one. Also they sold an adapter that just the buttons so you could plug in any headphones.

Why didn’t they just release a dongle thing that converted your headset to one with buttons. And since the connector wouldn’t have changed then you could just leave it on.

I remember buying one a day before launch. I found some cheap ipod cases protectors for it and used it for a long while. My gripes with it was the rubber on the headphones would eventually start falling apart and because at the time there wasn’t really any alternatives I just had to get new headphones every so often. I remember leaving it in my shorts one time and my mum washed them without checking pockets however a brief few minutes in the oven on the lowest temperature seem to fix the issue. Changing tracks or playlist could be a little annoying as it had to read everything so if you didn’t label songs on an album well you’d just hear “track 1” That said I still have it and I believe it still works. I eventually got a Sony MP4 player because I wanted to be able to see the track/playlist I was selecting (without needing the apple headphones) also it had a radio feature which it would also let you record.

My first MP3 player also had a full size USB A Connector on it. It was a huge upgrade compared to the CD player I was using before. I hated the fact that my cds would constantly skip whenever I moved too much for it's liking.

Can't wait to see our "mate" reviewing this nugget :)

These videos are always calming

I’d remember the first time I brought an iPod nano back in 2018. I was a teenager and was excited to have one played and sync the music at it. Best memory never faded away when I saw this one. It gave the good vibe.

Seeing the cable EarPods and the remote on it gave me some flashbacks. It’s funny to think about the struggles we had back in the days with the cables and how neat and convenient the Bluetooth earbuds nowadays are

Thank you sooo much for this elaborate review!! I'm not a huge Apple fan by any means, but the 3rd gen Shuffle is one of my favorite tech products of ALL TIME. I love how weirdly inconvenient, yet at the same time strangely simplistic and easy to use it is. I loved going to the gym with this thing, as clipping it onto my shirt and not having to worry about a screen cracking or some other flimsy part breaking while handling weights was a huge relief. When the original headset broke, I tried to use the newer Apple buds but soon realised that they actually DO NOT WORK with the 3rd gen Shuffle. So, in typical Apple manner, if your og headset broke, you were pretty much screwed. Luckily though, I found a third party headphone adapter with buttons on eBay (this was back in 2014, and I'm happy to report that the adapter STILL WORKS!!).

Had it, loved and hated it. This thing is amazing when you know your way around it, but the 4th gen kept all the same features except the 4gb storage. Voice over was awesome because I could navigate albums and playlists by using it without looking. I could only imagine blind people being really happy to own one of these. Wish they still sold the shuffle 4th but with 8gb storage minimum. Biggest problem today, no earbuds I've found will work, even Apple's own earpods with remote don't work. You have to have the official 2nd gen style apple earbuds with a remote.

I have SUCH emotional connection to this one. It was my first apple product - only 1 I could afford - and it was a great time for music too

I still use this device at a static volume and great output with a very nostalgic playlist im not changing ever

ALL the music in this video is LEGENDARY WELCOME H O M E -

I remember the old EarPods, this brings me back to the iPod Touch 4th gen

Back then the headphone Jack was the charging Jack. Now the charging Jack is the headphone Jack.

You can put all of your favorite songs into one huge 1000 song playlist, and carry. Best ipod ever, still use it, have the black version with 4GB capacity. Works with any earphones, but voice over can be used with just the old apple ones from 2009-2012... One quirky feature of this, if you sync with a windows PC, you get a female voice, and with Mac you get a male voice for voice over.

Whoa!, this review turned into a Tarantino movie all the sudden.

I miss my old Shuffle 3! Thanks for bringing back forgotten memories, it wasn’t that good but it was all I had for a while as a kid, and I really wish I had taken care of it.

I bought one of these in like 2012 to use for snowboarding and I actually loved it. Im the type of person that is happy to listen to pretty much any of my music so I wasn't bothered at all by having no buttons. And the tiny size was perfect for snowboarding. I couldn't even tell I had it on me.

Clever to take an accessibility feature and build a mainstream product around it. Interestingly the very first Macs in 84 had speech synthesis built in for accessibility, though having never played with one I can’t attest to its usability.

Had the second gen. Unfortunately didn't last long after a year. Was a good workout partner for me that got me into running marathons. Wanted the Sony mp3 but they were too pricy

Renaissance by Home. One of my favorite songs that got me into synth wave. Thank you for including it in your videos.

I used this thing for over a decade. It was a convenient actually-pocketable general USB storage device in an era where that was something necessary with the added bonus of being a good quality mp3 player at a time where other mp3 players did not have the most reliable build quality. It's the only apple product I have ever felt had no competition. Before smartphones were so widespread it did a good 75% of what I use mine for these days.

I loved mine, I limited it to the best playlist I could make at the time, was perfect for when I went snowboarding. No buttons meant I wasn’t doing anything with it and my hands were warm all day. Wish they made one today with Bluetooth for my AirPods

I had one in black that somehow I was able to mess with the internal files that power the device. It never worked after that even after a restore

Not gonna lie Apple back in the day was untouchable, now not so much.

I remember seeing this in a shopping catalogue back in 2009.. I really wanted one so much that my grandfather created one out of wood for me.. yes it was a wooden block, but to me it felt like the ipod; I would imagine songs and listen to them.. still never had one but cool to see it still being given love!

I remember I got one of these for Christmas and was so excited. It was so small it was really easy to lose

This was the first (and only) iPod I ever owned. This was my favorite thing in the world up until my apple earphones broke. And then I found out how expensive their earphones were... And then this just became a glorified USB.

There are only limited models of headphones have remote controls work on the Shuffle 3 in my experience: Of course the earbuds shipped with it, the iPhone 4/4S earbuds, 2008 old Apple In-Ear, Beats Tour series, Powerbeats wired, Beats Solo series, Beats Studio series’s, or any over-ear/on-ear headphones would work if you swap the cable to a Beats remote control cable. Note: EarPods wouldn’t work, Apple In-Ear 2012 refresh wouldn’t work, urBeats series wouldn’t work, and Beats EP wouldn’t work. They do play sound but remote control wouldn’t work.

I had the silver variant and the store I bought it from sold it to me a couple days before they was meant to be allowed and I loved it the only issue was the headphones as the rubber on them would come off in a few months and I could use them with out it as they was uncomfortable though apple said they’d replace them and did but same issue. They do sell updated earpods that use the same jack which I’d imagine would work.

7:08 Blood Warning ⚠️ make sure to tag these sequences. Some people can be highly anxious and nauseated or even faint to these. Not me though

Imagine how great this would have been if it had Siri

It looks like a green lighter

I have one of these and is such a good way of listening to music when working out or something like that cause its so small and light

i had one when it first launched , lost mine in public transport., voice over was like such a cool new feature and required u to sync with itunes while ur computer is online cuz it downloads extra script, names of the songs

i keep reading this as “the boneless ipod”

Please can you so the ipad air 2 in 2021

I was so excited when I got one of these for Christmas as a kid. Kinda hard to use

This is part of Apples faux-forward thinking ideas out of the boardroom , it worked, kind of, the classic ipod shuffle we all had and remember is the little square/rectangular one.

I don’t remember this being a thing

Didn’t know apple made a vape

that was my first iPod. Sync an album or two and also store homework to and from class. good times.

I’ll be honest and say I don’t understand the hate. Having had this the steps of operation was: 1. Load playlist from iTunes picked daily or whenever the playlist got boring. 2. Play music and only skip if a song became boring or you just felt like skipping a track. This whole “what about other earphones” was not an issue, back in the day these earbuds were a status symbol (and they came with your iPhone so a lot of folks had spare). Feels like it’s viewed through the lens of today rather than their time, it was amazing for running, school etc.