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

  • neo [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    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 shrug-outta-hecks