{"id":788,"date":"2011-06-09T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/06\/09\/is-apple-killing-off-ipod\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:31:56","slug":"is-apple-killing-off-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/06\/09\/is-apple-killing-off-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple killing off iPod?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/11\/IPod_family.png\/250px-IPod_family.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"156\" height=\"81\" \/><br \/>Earlier this week the company announced that its iOS 5 operating system for  devices would arrive in the autumn but has made a beta version available in  advance to developers.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Business Insider notes that on the operating system the iPhone app which used  to be called &#8216;iPod&#8217; (through which users could play their music stored on <a href=\"\/linkmatches.asp?linkcode=252\">iTunes<\/a>) has now been renamed simply  &#8216;Music&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It writes, \u201c<a href=\"\/linkmatches.asp?linkcode=40\">Apple<\/a> is probably  mostly trying to unify the experience across all of its iOS devices, so playing  music and videos is the same on all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It adds, \u201cBut it&#8217;s hard to overlook that Apple is also probably starting the  inevitable wind-down of the iPod brand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple introduced the iPod in October 2001 and since then it has gone through  multiple product evolutions including the iPod Mini, the iPod Nano, the iPod  Shuffle and the iPod Touch.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, however, Apple&#8217;s portable device focus has really been on the  iPhone and the iPad. Its last updates for the iPod family were the sixth  generation Nano, the fourth generation iPod Touch and the fourth generation  Shuffle in September 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The iPod Classic has not been updated since 2009 when the only feature update  was a storage increase to 160GB.<\/p>\n<p>In the company&#8217;s latest earnings call for Q1 2011 it announced that iPod  sales had dropped 19% to 9.02m units globally compared to Q1 2010. In contrast,  iPhone sales were up by 113% to 18.65m units. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the company announced that its iOS 5 operating system for devices would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}