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The Vergecast

Bonus: Walt Mossberg remembers the iPod nano

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Apple announced this week that the iPod nano has been discontinued, taking down the website for both the shuffle and the nano today. Walt Mossberg - renowned tech reviewer, looks back on the iPod nano's origin with an anecdote about an interaction he had with Steve Jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Steve Jobs did show me this device before it came out. He kept cannibalizing himself. He

0:07.2

had an apple. And I remember they had the iPod mini which was help more songs that came

0:14.4

in different colors. The iPod mini is what all of our competitors have their sites

0:19.4

focused on. And I remember going to see him one day and he said we're pulling the mini

0:23.9

off the market. And I said what are you talking about it isn't that all? He said well

0:29.4

it's not only is it not that old but is the most popular MP3 player in the world. And

0:34.2

he said but I'm bringing out this other thing and he whipped out his pocket the nano.

0:39.6

The iPod nano which was way smaller and had even more capacity and all that stuff in

0:46.1

a much smaller body. And I said well why are you doing that? He said well I want to be

0:52.9

the one that cannibalized us and the problem with the mini now is it's been out for however

0:57.6

long it's been out not that long maybe a year or something like that a year and a half.

1:02.0

And he said and the contract manufacturers in Asia have figured out pretty much how

1:06.7

to match this so other people can bring out their own versions that look a lot like this

1:11.9

but they can't do the nano yet. So I'm taking this off the market and putting the nano

1:18.1

on. One third the size of the smallest phone on the market.

1:22.3

Wonder stay ahead that's how small this is.

1:26.6

It's really small size.

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