Those were something, weren’t they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.
And in hindsight… Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn’t it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.
While I’m here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.
I guess just in general I don’t like touch screens and it’ll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don’t actually need them. I’m out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still
It’s amused me since the Metal Gear Solid 4 came out that Snake has an Apple iPod, fully simulated with that exact click wheel design. And it was a good design.
I recently brought out my iPhone SE to use as an audio player. It’s basically a glorified iPod Touch, but it at least has a headphone jack