The absolute worst bootleg iPod.

[@DankPods]

I love the passion for this king of the nuggets, here's more context! I tried for ages to get it to appear without wiping it but it was MIA. I just edited out the 15 minutes of "awh noe, this aint a real guy is it?". Folks think the OS was lost after its battle with Disk Utility but it booted into it afterwards! I shouldn't have removed the footage of me browsing the settings as it was way boring but totally showed that it was working. It happily took files from the computer! I also tried FAT32 off camera but again, way boring. It's a nugget. In retrospect I should have tried using it before wiping it and for that I blame Frank but also apologise on her behalf. But it was a ScamPod, the idiot didn't even know how much storage it really had. It crashed and boot looped the whole time using it and I bet it was never meant to actually "work". But I could pull it apart like an orange and that's what really mattress 🛏. Frank says nothing.

[@MJ_338]

I think regardless of all the struggles, we got a good laugh out of this pile of junk

[@con_tent]

Should’ve been held together with the same packing tape the box used

[@docsnavely1010]

I looked up the chip and it’s a legit 8GB nand flash chip. Not sure why it read 1GB with the real 30 pin cable.

[@jay_mem]

franck

[@AuroraNemoia]

@@docsnavely1010 cluster size, partition table madness. if you shove it into gparted and give it a clean mbr with a fat32, it should go back to 8gb. Dont expect any of it to work still. seems like ths software on the cd was specifically needed to encode files in a certain format for the player to understand them.

[@logicalparadox815]

Reason for the disk error was probably formatting it into a Mac OS file system. This kinda junk usually expects FAT32 or NTFS. Not that that would have saved it from the allmighty 1 Grit.

[@kibur7399]

NTFS is definitely hopeful...

[@olliewebbuk]

This is 100% the reason.

[@Pentti_Hilkuri]

Almost nothing likes NTFS.

[@Wielblad95]

Almost everything works with FAT, but even if it worked it probably wouldn't be much better than not working nugget.

[@achaycock]

I thought I would see if anyone had put this in before me. Yes, it would have needed FAT32 for certain. Interestingly, I do wonder if it was a fake 8GB device that really had a faulty 1GB chip.

[@RATEATER-q6r]

if Pear was a company, this would be their first product

[@aliveforever100]

I have seen bootlegs with a pear logo

[@justaadhdgamerwesley6244]

Reminds me of the pear laptop in icarly

[@tychopanda]

@@justaadhdgamerwesley6244 there was a pear phone too right?

[@RATEATER-q6r]

@@justaadhdgamerwesley6244 holy shit yeah

[@gamingnubs7628]

@@tychopanda how would that work though? Like it was a literal pear shape

[@tinkant5210]

I mean I love all types of content here but something about having an Aussie man become frustrated and amused by transparent pieces of junk is next tier.

[@jak2767]

Right? I have zero interest in music or audiophile stuff but I just can't get enough of his passion and humor!

[@kuartz.]

@@jak2767 i think its his chaotic energy

[@aWildOcti]

@@kuartz. It's both!

[@TechHaris_]

Yeah, windows 11 really is junk

[@echonomad94]

@@TechHaris_ that’s why I stick with windows 7 and windows 10.

[@steelplasma256]

I think you wiped the OS when you formatted it to Mac OS. That is really bad design if you could do that accidentally

[@phoenixelysia]

he did. i had one of these freaks - they're windows only really. If he used the disc, it probs woulda fixed it

[@Xodabeef]

​@@phoenixelysia why design a ln ipod for windows use tho? (prob just laziness)

[@phoenixelysia]

@@Xodabeef because it's a bootleg and bootleg shit nearly always defaults to windows or linux.

[@CODMarioWarfare]

I don’t think he nuked the OS so much as it couldn’t read the Mac OS formatted disk

[@Logan-Eastman]

@@CODMarioWarfare I think you nailed it. The firmware (or OS if you will) would almost certainly be written to a chip separate from the flash memory. The flash memory then got formatted to a mac specific format that the terrible firmware couldn't read from.

[@lungshenli]

what if the folks who built this actually wanted to build the highest quality knock-off possible but were scammed themselves by their memory supplier who shipped them one of those fake chips that is rigged to over-report its capacity.

[@AppyErazas007]

@@emmawilly2056 shut up m8

[@merriquelynn]

@@emmawilly2056 If only KZbin took care of these actual nasty adult content “comments”

[@merriquelynn]

That would honestly be the biggest twist since “The Others”. They had such lofty goals and so much to offer.

[@Twiddle_things]

@@emmawilly2056 shut the fuck up dude who cares

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@Twiddle_things y'all replying to bots you do realize

[@21Trainman]

When you erased it it would have been more likely to work if you picked “FAT32” instead of the OSX Extended Jounaled, just a tip for the future. Great video as always!

[@carters.9814]

I was gonna mention this hehe

[@benny21293]

Also MBR instead of GPT

[@mjsud]

He did he's got a pinned comment

[@con_tent]

@@jackieburkhart3268 Ayo what

[@snerttt]

Wow didn’t notice that, no wonder it didn’t work lol

[@jeffsabados8075]

This is the best bootleg iPod I’ve ever seen. So much effort to rip off an iPod, and yet it still completely sucks. Absolutely hilarious!

[@Tairex777]

@@ankieb3980 should have said "Designed By Orange In Chinafornia"

[@SockyNoob]

Ikr

[@Frank-st7ku]

@@ankieb3980 its actually made im CalIformia

[@ankieb3980]

@@Frank-st7ku that's what I said

[@spritethekite9943]

And it’s pretty much a lawsuit

[@joshuasmyth3115]

That looks like the kind of shit grandma buys you, and you cant tell her that she's wrong because the box does in fact say iPod and has the the Apple logo, and attempting to tell her that she's wrong will only lead to disorder in the family.

[@MultiDakman]

Yet I still would

[@robertbernard7844]

​@@MultiDakmanYou monster.

[@skylerross8843]

I love how they gave up with the apple logo on everything in the box by using Apple's actual logo. It was too hard to keep using the bootleg version

[@misesapphire910]

@@emmawilly2056 bruh

[@DankPods]

Off camera I tried every format when wiping it, remember it wouldn't even show up on the computer as it was! This is an absolutely cooked nugget. Also every other bootleg lets you wipe them without losing the OS!!

[@CrissHW]

Totally cooked

[@riamel1214]

A nugget dead in the water

[@paulofduty2005]

You think the “genuine” apple nug will obey a simple request? Wrong mate, very wrong.

[@keven_val]

u deleted the os not the s

[@clochard4074]

I'm afraid the stuff you formatted at the beginning was required 😅

[@randomprimary]

Ahh yes, unboxing mid 2000's e-junk is my favorite genre of Australian media.

[@daranyillh6446]

It was really weird to see a bootleg of an iPod I still use, and then a laptop that looks almost exactly like the one I have

[@debleb166]

That is simultaneously the highest and lowest effort bootleg I've ever seen

[@dutchah91]

It's like it was designed by two people, one of whom was dedicated to this piece of shit and the other who'd given his last shit years ago.

[@Telamon8]

the mediumest effort

[@lucyakaluckstat]

HI DIEGO

[@radgiraffe5519]

"These stinky names right here" *runs a list approximately equal in length to the census of a small country*

[@MJ_338]

*insert population of Vatican city here*

[@ClocklessHours]

@@MJ_338 *Proceeds to play the sex offender shuffle on the drums*

[@shoraz]

@@ClocklessHours ayyy they just had a lapse of judgement, tripped and diddled kids for decades, happens to the best of us.

[@igorino1767]

I mean the dude has 3 people named George supporting him. That's 3 more than I ever had.

[@TheMadTatter]

I'm so glad to live in a world where I can watch an Aussie bloke raging at technology and talking down to a snake.

[@clark_johannes]

@@emmawilly2056 emma willy wonka bozers

[@ort2456]

not to mention, he’s got respect for a duck and a rock

[@nikolaaskaas]

I'm afraid the disk errors were because you formatted it to OSX Extended rather than FAT32. Most non-apple devices cannot read that filesystem. I am sure it wouldn't have made a huge difference though. Awesome vid dude :)

[@jacobperez8921]

This is the most I've seen a company toying so hard to get sued by Apple.

[@xaviert393]

@@emmawilly2056 yup :(

[@c3ntip3d39]

@@emmawilly2056 Ah yes great point, Apple does do that when that happens

[@olsmokey]

Look up the Medfly bunfight and all the other apple ][ clones from the 1970s.

[@ianisabastard]

@@emmawilly2056 stop violating youtube’s terms of service

[@gehteuchnichtsan7911]

Lol you ever saw them Airpod fakes?

[@jadesprite]

BTW, masquerading smalls disks as large disks is still something that happens when you buy modern USB drives and SSDs. See, your system doesn't actually check how much data it can read/write to a disk... (that'd take forever!) it just asks the firmware on the drive how big it is. The firmware/controller also determines what happens when you try to write too much data; so it could just not save anything or loop back and start overwriting at the beginning. So never buy storage from any brand you don't already trust, and always keep 3 backups of anything important.

[@XxX_afterHours_XxX]

:o)

[@danielt2k8]

how do I do it

[@andrewbreazna]

A teacher once told me that my work doesnt exist if it isnt saved in at least 3 places

[@homebrew07]

SanDisk and Samsung are very reliable brands

[@natsuko_mikan]

most of my storage is WD brand

[@scrp1o]

The best thing about the packaging for me is that they decided to take the walkman logo, flip it upside down so it looks like an M and then just added "P3" and "P4" to make in MP3/MP4

[@Michaelroni-n-cheese]

None of this was good or funny. I do be bein gay doe.

[@lakrumallawa6454]

The expressed realization at [ 01:40 ] is so good, its on par with a wizard seeing a rare ancient spell being cast after hundreds of years of him witnessing it.

[@Momo_oo7]

That's very... *specific*

[@CoingamerFL]

NÑOOUUUUUUH!

[@ScorpionNova]

"Play the clip!"

[@JoshuaJacobawesome]

I think when you formatted the disk on your Mac you may have broke something, it may have required their specific software.

[@bntrs]

yep that's what i think too, it would have wanted the software to put music on the special formatted drive

[@docelbrown]

Looks like it might've been formatted to Mac OS X Extended, FAT32 should've worked alright.

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

It was also formatted as HFS+ instead of FAT32 when he did that

[@TheAfroman]

@dankpods I think this is right! Format it in fat32! Not MacOS extended

[@TheRockinDonkey]

It required the one-grit.

[@Anino_Makata]

I like how everyone on the desk started panicking once Dank took the One Grit to the ScamPod. They were probably convinced it was a genuine nano and thought their boss had finally lost his Vegemite.

[@isaacralph6770]

"Play the clip" that is some content growth, great one!

[@markyboy7618]

I've not laughed to tears like this for ages. Genuinel iPod egg bag. 🤣

[@NekoMichi]

03:21 - Oh wow, it even has a legit iPod Nano 3rd gen's serial number. The iPod whose serial was reused for this bootleg was manufactured in 2007, though.

[@kapilbusawah7169]

How does one read a serial number?

[@AbiRizky]

@@kapilbusawah7169 he's speaking the language of the gods so that's how

[@FatNinjaWalrus]

not quite, looks like by the font the original number that actually exists ended on "0P" and they subbed it in with "OP" (zero vs O), which does not actually have an apple SN tied to it. subtle but effective. aaaaand that's why apple requires SN reader scans for all devices before any repairs can be made.

[@NekoMichi]

@@kapilbusawah7169 On older Apple products, the 3rd digit of the serial number represented the year of manufacture (3 = 2003/2013, 4 = 2004/2014 etc) and the 4th and 5th digits represent the week of manufacture. Other sections of the serial number also denote the model and variant of the product.

[@danielt2k8]

Sep 3 to 10, '07

[@jannietfeld4717]

"this is brand new, yet reeks of age" is the perfect description for politicians in my country

[@kilroywashere9343]

I think that’s politicians in most countries

[@grqfes]

politicians in every country***

[@jacksonlarson6099]

Not in the US. Our government doubles as an old folk's home. It's absurd.

[@mrs.ricksavage9822]

I can't believe 352 people thought this was clever.

[@Manticorn]

What the hell kind of country

[@NadimSadeeq]

At this point I want to buy a bootleg more than the real thing

[@corbinnickle440]

When you formatted it you formatted the OS meaning you basically got rid of all the stuff it needs to work

[@LunaDeaminac]

For a moment I thought this was an actual iPod that failed QA with a buggy version of the UI. It’s not uncommon for factories to sell the knockoff versions of products they make legitimately and throw in failed devices in with that bunch.

[@OldSkoolWheniRide]

Apple wouldn’t dream of doing that with their business

[@LunaDeaminac]

@@OldSkoolWheniRide The brand owners don’t have control over it. The majority of businesses don’t own the factories that make their products, they just have contracts with them. Once the factory has met its quota, any extras that are manufactured after that and ones that don’t meet Quality Assurance standards are basically owned by the factory rather than the brand. Everything that fails QA still took time, resources and money so it’s very common for people try to recoup that loss by selling them unofficially. A lot of knock-off products that look a lot like the real brand are made in the exact same factory by the exact same people as the real ones.

[@schleepy6362]

Something about Dank chanting “I hate you Windows” in what sounds like an echoing chapel is so freaking funny to me🤣

[@amnottabs]

the Dankchurch getting ready

[@HNBGamer]

Reminds me of the time that one kid saying "I hate Pewdiepie" went viral

[@coastaku1954]

I think his criticisms of Windows are way over blown, like most Linux douche bags. I love Dankpods but god I hate how he preaches Linux

[@amnottabs]

@@coastaku1954 I'm certain he's not using Linux at all

[@coastaku1954]

@@amnottabs But he has always preached for Linux to take over. He said it in this video, he said it in his 1 Million video, and bashed windows in his “Using and iPod as an SSD” video

[@Funrollercoaster606]

DankPods, The iPod was not the issue. Well, technically, it was. But, internally, it actually had a disc error.

[@sihamhamda47]

Maybe it has formatted the wrong way or the storage chip was faulty it couldn't read the data blocks inside of it

[@DMontero17]

@@sihamhamda47 I think the error comes from ereasing the disk and formatting it for Mac, it probably was FAT32 to begin with.

[@RetroDaddyPH]

It's having "Disk Error" because you formatted the internal drive using a Mac, which is a criminal offense, and the drive also houses some of the UI and OS elements.

[@edwardnotthevampire]

@@TMinusRecords I’m going with your idea

[@edwardnotthevampire]

The bots have breached the walls!

[@lol-nc3tz]

@@TMinusRecords Or both

[@milo9295]

3:21 "Designed by Apple in Callformia Assembied in China" ah yes, my favorite american state, Callformia

[@kronik9317]

finally someone noticed

[@TheDonutMan3000]

Timestamp is actually 3:21

[@milo9295]

@@TheDonutMan3000 whoops, changed it

[@r4tk1ng1]

theres no r its just callfomia

[@natsuko_mikan]

c a l i f o m i a

[@Legofan2676]

The i-m8 looks like that one craig nano which had the d-pad controls or was it a different bootleg that was the same size. The collossal one had a dpad too but well that's a giant one

[@interdimensionalemployee1117]

The colossal mini.

[@FelixSullivan]

@@agnez9711 shush

[@grass6317]

7:35 Beacuse u erased the memory. The system cannot open anything. U Bricked a brick. Good job,DankPod edit:Yo wtf

[@BIGBOICOMBO]

You might not care at this point but the reason why it kept showing "Disk error" is because you keep formatting it to HFS , you should format it to Fat32 , that's the only disk format it reads

[@MH-gh5bp]

2:34 Can we just appreciate this beautiful flip of the classic in his hands? Just.. beautiful.

[@Nakabozu]

Just a little fun fact! I know you're laughing at it having a Samsung chip in it, but you'd be surprised to know that Apple and Samsung have had numerous partnerships over decades. Samsung is one of the only companies with factories capable of keeping up with the demand for Apple products, so it's not unheard of for Apple products to be full of Samsung chips and screens. Now, I highly doubt that specific chip (which looked like an embedded multimedia card when I googled it) was made for iPods, so that's still something to laugh about!

[@khristopherkomodoensis4734]

Samsung actually make the screens that go on iPhones as well as some of the batteries that ship with them

[@IchWillNicht0119]

​@@khristopherkomodoensis4734 Pre A-series iPhones had Samsung-designed CPUs and before TSMC's ongoing process node domination A-series chips came from Samsung foundries as well.

[@dinkarfowkar999]

This guy is the only Apple user I don't hate

[@nurullahaksay]

Also every iPod (except Touch) after Portal Player has a Samsung SoC on them

[@grqfes]

when i saw that it really made me think about how its no different in having samsung parts than a real one.

[@xenophobiac4570]

I always loved the Grammy Award winning song “Disk Error”; so contemplative. Pair well with the Emmy Award winning show of the same name.

[@LevenLappi]

I once owned a "mp3/mp4" music player. (Won it arcade) Gotta say, it worked great for a while (half a month), then it just ceased. Screw these bootlegs, the more expensive options last longer.

[@lui5gif]

I've looked up the datasheet and that Samsung chip was an 8gb memory, so they didn't skimp on that. They clearly skimped on the people building the firmware, because that nugget did not enjoy being wiped. Hail the 1 grit

[@JS19000]

I looked at the datasheet too and it says it's a 1 gigabyte chip. The box and device is lying about its size. That's why it showed up as 1 gigabyte once he formatted it at 9:45. Not only is it a terrible device, it's also a scam because it clearly shows 8GB (8 gigabytes) on the box. 😂

[@kuirivito]

@@JS19000 ok is it one gig or 8 cuz if they said the datasheet said 8 and you say it said 1 is weird

[@JS19000]

@@kuirivito It's a 1 gigabyte chip. Since there's 8 bits in a byte that would be an 8 gigabit chip. GB with a capital B means gigabytes and Gb with a lowercase B means gigabits.

[@Johntendo64]

"When you erased it it would have been more likely to work if you picked “FAT32” instead of the OSX Extended Jounaled, just a tip for the future. Great video as always!" That and might have benefitted from putting the ocntent in subfolders as a lot of pre 2012 media players still need you to make 'music, video, photo' folders

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

it said the drive was formatted at "es" before. OSX should know FAT32. maybe even NTFS. So that drive probably was formatted at something else. What I assume is that it was meant for the eee PC generation, expecting the user to throw in the CD and install their face iTunes. And just as any legit of the time, it would only sync through iTunes.

[@Thewaterspirit57]

Dankpods getting immensely frustrated with an actually really good windows laptop is hilarious XD

[@Ferrari255GTO]

I mean, it's windows 11 i feel bad for him.

[@Thewaterspirit57]

@@Ferrari255GTO and he could switch to Windows 10, because of the whole seamless thing Microsoft had done with both OS’ Not my fault Dankpods is immensely picky, and has 0 tolerance with anything windows, or also literally 0 knowledge of modern windows.

[@Ferrari255GTO]

@@Thewaterspirit57 at least he does know that the new macs aren't worth it either, there's a reason why he has a gen 2 ipad and a 2012 mac

[@Thewaterspirit57]

@@Ferrari255GTO the new ones a literally worth it far more than those old ones. More powerful and actually reliable. He just keeps old ones for other old iPods sometimes. Also last time I checked, dankpods has an iPad Pro. Also smh, fake fan. He has an iPad 4

[@Ferrari255GTO]

@@Thewaterspirit57 oh, right, firewire is a thing XD. To be honest he would be just as capable of working with ipods with a modern one, it's just that whenever he needs a jumpstart he will need to get a firewire charger

[@JrIcify]

7:21 the rage made him push the menu button so hard it messed up the screen for a second

[@ellielovesbands]

hah I noticed that too 😂

[@md_vandenberg]

This guy basically bought an overkill gaming laptop as a joke, whilst I pray for my $175 trashpile gaming rig to survive another day. But on second thought, I'll take my rig: its got Windows 7.

[@delbomb3131]

I'm genuinely baffled by his CONSTANT windows problems.

[@RisingRevengeance]

@@delbomb3131 pretty much how I feel when I try to do anything on a mac

[@TheAngryHiker]

good fellow

[@VSucc]

@@delbomb3131 windows can just decide to be dumb, I mean at one point (im not sure whether they fixed it or not) you used to have to pay shipping for the digital key for windows, you know, something that isnt shipped.

[@9ec]

win 7 is seriously a risk now, my buddy got all his info stolen because he still used 7 and basically fell victim to a pretty crazy spyware

[@valentinomartinez2234]

It’s so funny that he freaks out over disk error when he literally wiped the hard drive and formatted the whole disk Lmaoooo

[@baseddoggie]

He formatted it using OSX's file system, IDK why he missed that. Should have used FAT16 or FAT32

[@syllvanis_]

@@baseddoggie There's a FAT16?

[@baseddoggie]

@@syllvanis_ There are many iterations of the FAT file system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Types

[@svgaming234]

@@syllvanis_ yes, it was used in DOS

[@rainflarexx]

Ye

[@SirensOfNC]

3:05 i love how he loudly gasps like that

[@MrCreekyify]

3:20 It actually says "Designed by Apple in Callfomia" on the Back lol

[@mh13mini]

I saw that! Im shocked Dank didn't notice. That would have been prime memeing

[@heartache5742]

might be a weird rn ligature

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

Assombied in China.

[@XxcousinsxX]

He noticed because he talked about how scammy it is

[@elliottsimmons9024]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jungle_cs]

Just an FYI, if you get a laptop purely for it to run the nugget disks make sure you run them in a virtual machine so that if it's got sketchy stuff on it it won't mess with anything really important

[@WW1N73R]

Mutahar?

[@jungle_cs]

@@WW1N73R nah, personal experience.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@jungle_cs Yeah better be safe than sorry. And a VM that runs XP, because the height of nuggetry was deep in the XP days.

[@zeddy5085]

I know this is super late, but "purely for it to run the nugget disks" and "anything really important" shouldn't be in the same sentence. Who needs a VM when the entire machine is disposable?

[@imhoriz0n727]

I think when you plugged in the "iPod" to your iMac and formatted it, you might've deleted some files that the "iPod" was using, or, even more likely, the "iPod" had folders in it, and it read from those specific folders, not from the main folder. I doubt you can use this info now judging from the... uhh.. state of the nugget in question, but I still wanted to post a comment about this.

[@imhoriz0n727]

Also could be due to the fact that macOS usually formats things specifically for macos, which the "iPod" probably doesn't support. (It most likely supports FAT32 only)

[@RealEpikCartfrenYT]

that's definitely the case. I had a stinky Nano clone, and you actually had to put music in "MUSIC" and video in "MOVIE"

[@polarispm]

“Designed by Apple in Callfomia” Seems legit

[@bk109]

Eh, Dank? You realize that when you erased the nugget, you changed the bugger's file system from (most likely) FAT16/32 to MacOS, so it's no bloody wonder it was throwing that disk error.

[@bablela26]

Yep XD was gonna say the same thing :p

[@bk109]

@@bablela26 I just realized that the partition scheme was also wrong, so even if he had read the Manuel and realized that it was a FAT device, it still would've been unreadable (and one-gritted) :D

[@Jdbye]

That actually looks convincing. They got the finish right, and they even got the iPod font right (which you would think would be easy but most of these guys get it wrong), I mean, the box couldn't look more fake, but the product itself looks kind of convincing, probably enough to fool your friends, as long as you don't let them look closely at the UI. The egg bag looks suspect though, wouldn't use that. Almost seems like the box wasn't designed by the same company that designed the device, maybe a company just bought a ton of these wholesale and they didn't come with boxes, so they made their own half assed attempt which just completely ruins the illusion that it's a legitimate product. But at least they have a box so that it doesn't break in shipping (hopefully) Shame it doesn't actually work. Maybe it's saying disk error because it's looking for files inside specifically named folders, but there were no folders on the storage so how are you supposed to guess what they should be called? Maybe you need to use the software on the disc it came with to create the folders and put things in the right places... Or maybe it just doesn't support Mac format. Try FAT16 or FAT32?

[@danielt2k8]

Fat16 allows up to 4gb in 512 byte sector disks

[@WeRektEconomy]

9:06 "The MP3 drives the procedure" straight up sounds like it's been through 10 layers of google translate lmao

[@ncwl.youtube]

The thing with bootleg devices is that, although they aren't real, some parents buy you these bootleg devices because they genuinely want to see you happy despite their financial quo. That's the magic with bootleg devices.

[@Nitrolord]

Why did they think people would fall for packaging that uses the Walkman logo, which was literally one of the most popular portable listening products not too long before the thing they're trying to knock off was invented

[@Slateproc]

I'd like to take this moment to remind you that 50% of humanity is below average intelligence

[@travisbarnes7847]

That was the first thing I noticed!

[@3a.m.284]

My guess is exactly how you said it. They were knocking off walkmans until ipods took over, and just lazily reused the box and added the apple logo

[@SilentProti]

You think some grandma looking for a gift for her grandkids would know the difference?

[@Will-sv9mf]

@@Slateproc incorrect. About 50% of people are of perfectly average intelligence. About 20% are below average including those who are cognitively impaired.

[@vitaminbleach1217]

I love watching an Australian man screaming at a bootleg iPod

[@RawBerserker]

Oi mate, what you listening to?

[@Ijustexistokaynoquestionpls]

I could imagine a little kid wanting an iPod for their birthday, and they get this

[@-NezoF-]

Their entire market was scamming well meaning grandmas. Not very good people, those guys

[@speakupOfficial]

2:50 he rly said ☺️😊🧐😐🤢🤮😒😦😯😲😵😏😆😈😈

[@evilspoons]

Real iPods probably have Samsung chips in them. They're one of the world's largest suppliers of flash memory.

[@_invencible_]

iphones use samsung RAM if i'm not mistaken

[@aaronlane8276]

The first 3 iPhones had Samsung CPUs in them and batteries.

[@SilentProti]

Classic ipods have an hdd, Toshiba's iirc

[@evilspoons]

@@SilentProti yes, but all of the Nano, Shuffle, and Touch models are flash-based, and this is a 3rd-gen Nano clone. Many, if not all, of the iPods with hard drives also had Samsung SDRAM.

[@poofa4009]

For anyone who decides to read the comments before watching the video, I'll let you know Wade forgot to include a headphone warning at 11:12

[@cobalttj6356]

It does actually say "the art af music" cos the a is the exact same calligraphy as the others in this beautifully crafted sentence

[@Daniel_Nye]

1:41 Oh no, the return of the MP¾ player! NOOOO! Can we please get a full MP sometime you bad imitators, please? Additional: wow this is subjectively the best episode yet, the Batman ones were great but ooh such disgusting knockoff, I love it

[@abdelali9279]

I wonder if the internal memory was like those scammy 1 TB SD cards that are just modified to say they have all that much storage but when formatted it reveals its only a small fraction of what they claim so maybe that was the situation here, no wonder it never worked.

[@cloud8521]

that is indeed that they do

[@heckenpennercod2490]

Nah its because it was false formattes

[@Rainquack]

"Designed by Apple in Callfomia." [ *Callfomia*, not _California_ ] and "Assembied in China" Well, I mean technically they're not wrong...

[@joeyAW]

“Points at rtx 3060” “It can run Rocket League right?” I’m dying rn 😂

[@salwakhan5443]

It’s always a good day when dankpods uploads

[@Dozilicous]

Yep

[@thecameraman12]

trusies

[@mrrandmssbearyt5222]

Makes me really happy…

[@Benrysim]

Fax

[@ParaboZarty]

100th like

[@LittleGenevieve]

3:15 The manical laugh of a man driven insane by years of experiencing bootleg Ipods

[@uneasycylinder]

I love how absolutely feral he was this video 😭 I feel like it was even more than usual

[@rheyapatel1060]

So true! I was cackling the whole time

[@WildWildWeasel]

I lost it at "the mp3 drives the procedure" 😂😂😂

[@cdlopez27]

6:55 “oh my favorite game, is disappointment”

[@saytwo131]

Disc error

[@blu_subwoofer6714]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@UShaikh69]

8:55 mom!! the neighbour is back at it again

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

So, theory about the 8 gig to 1 gig thing, I’m pretty sure there’s a way to trick the computer to show more storage then is actually capable, and if you transfer more than the actual storage the data just ✨disappears✨

[@zehph]

That is an old trick by some shady bootleg producers. I had a pen drive like that once, bought 16Gb and got just two... They save wrong information on the firmware of the device to trick the compute. In my case the file transfer would crash when it reached the 2Gb mark.

[@mecrumbly429___4]

Imagine trying to make a liveusb like that... Oof, the Idea of half the ISO failing to write, but not being prompted actally hurts.

[@andrewmorris483]

@@zehph I once bought a 32gb flash drive. It read as 32 until I opened it and there was a separate 32gb area with no partition. Turns out it was a 64gb that got put into the 32 production line.

[@Nadia1989]

Linus Tech Tips made a video about that scam a few years ago

[@RubixKyuub]

@@andrewmorris483 guess it was your lucky day

[@V1_The_Machine]

Bro got a laptop with a FRICKING 3060 and a CORE i7. ON CLEARANCE! I’m both mad and extremely envious.

[@saltysoyman6908]

I’m glad you’re becoming part of the floatplane creators now! I might just have to subscribe now.

[@aeyde]

ㅤ

[@why...does...this_exist]

You should sub man

[@saltysoyman6908]

@@why...does...this_exist might as well. I already have so much lttstore merch lmao

[@why...does...this_exist]

@@saltysoyman6908 lul

[@gargablargblarg]

Premium entertainment when suffering through a migraine and fatigue. Thank you almighty Pod of Dank 👏

[@DeathInTheSnow]

Can't wait for him to muck about with the Creative Zen line, especially the first X-Fi! Did it really enhance your mp3s?? Did the media centre streaming actually work?? Can it still show pictures of _Frank???_

[@arnox4554]

Creative Zens are legit. Walkman as well (usually).

[@deijigates4664]

"ewww it's dirty!" *Has hands which looks like he just changed the oil of 20 cars*

[@shadouraito7935]

Mate just casually bought a gaming laptop to use a bootleg disc. What a legend.

[@jamesdriver0317]

I think when you formatted the “iPod” you might have erased the apps.

[@CocoTheMii]

He formatted it as HFS+, which is Apple's own proprietary file system. Most bootleg devices like this typically expect FAT or FAT32.

[@EvexiansVideoworks]

8:42 1st: I need a 10 Hour Version Of That. 2nd: AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I AM A MAC USER.

[@TylerTMG]

i hate windows but use it because gaming needs windows and i like windows

[@TylerTMG]

i think it would be the same with mac to tho lol

[@894MUSIC]

⁠@@TylerTMG I got my first Mac about a year ago, and setting it up for the first time (with no backups or anything etc) only took about 20 minutes, not 2 hours lol

[@TylerTMG]

@@894MUSIC nice

[@shaunfernando5349]

You know its apple when it says "bye bye" when it turns off. 😅

[@MemesOrSomething]

I'll be honest, with how it was going with the "iPod" I was expecting the earbuds to just not have any drivers in them

[@psychonauts0]

Using a real 30-pin connector isn't as surprising as you might expect. I work in e-recycling and I've seen multiple sandisk and samsung official mp3 players that use apples 30--pin connector, they shocked me the first time I saw them, but now I've seen a good amount of them. So I guess it was used on more than just the Ipod line of devices.

[@etekweb]

My high school theatre department had wireless comm headsets (made by Williams Sound) that used an Apple 30-pin connector to charge. They even mention it in the manual.

[@CocoTheMii]

My dad has an old Sandisk Sansa player that uses a cable like this. It's actually not a 30-pin connector; it's _very_ similar in form factor, but you cannot use a Sandisk cable on an iPod or vice versa.

[@psychonauts0]

@@CocoTheMii Although the one your dad had might not have supported it, I assure you there are some that do.

[@optecio]

Not sure if anyone noticed at 5:34 there‘s a child count category which says 1. HhMmMmm…

[@bluephoenix3945]

What does that mean in this case? Sorry I’m not tech illiterate but I’m also not the best either

[@Countryballs99981]

My headphones blew up when he blew up the fake apple headphones 💀

[@peelzboyplays6089]

10:51 "That's not a stress relief if it pulls out immediately!" Well... Log that under "sentence I was not expecting to hear today" 🤣

[@AllFloofAndNoThoughts]

I’m not sure how the “iPod” even worked after you erased everything. I’m assuming there was a little bit of stuff still in ram but I’m pretty sure you wiped the OS…

[@psychonauts0]

Devices usually have a portion of storage that's allocated to the OS that's not erasable through normal means.

[@AllFloofAndNoThoughts]

@@psychonauts0 I would agree that some parts of the OS are not stored on the hard drive like the BIOS but given it showed up as USB, i imagine running erase completely wiped the hard drive and the main OS.

[@vetrixfx9264]

He probably formatted it in HFS+ and GPT instead of MBR and FAT32

[@craigjensen6853]

@@AllFloofAndNoThoughts The "OS" is likely in ROM.

[@ChristopherHindefjord]

That's, generally, not how embedded devices work. The "OS" (if you can call it that) or firmware are not stored in an location that's accessible via USB/as mass storage, it's either stored in ROM built in to the main micro controller, or on a separate chip and the loaded (via some kind of bootstrap code) on startup. It could be that it's stored in a section of the flash memory chip (but I doubt it, especially since the chip seems to be 1GB, and that is what the computer reports as the full storage space), but still separate from the (user accessible) file structure. Is it entirely impossible that (part of) the firmware was stored in the file storage? No, but that would be a cumbersome (and unstable?) way to do it (Having to have some basic code first that could handle the file structure, and then load the rest of the firmware. Things like Games would be logical if you loaded from the file storage (easy to add new games etc), but not the main system. (There are now micro controllers [Arduinos etc] that exposes an mass storage device and lets add "firmware"/code to them that way, but the main "OS" is flashed separately, and not accessible as a normal drive)

[@malcontender6319]

8:47 You know? I found myself chanting this just yesterday!

[@vdeave]

Did no one else notice it said "Designed by Apple in Califormia"?

[@MattLedz186]

I like Wade screaming, almost unintelligibly, while Scarlet Fire blows some nugget-phones out of existence. 😂

[@snowywolf4513]

Interesting how at 9:45 you can see on the properties it says "child count"

[@DerpyTheShreddingProto]

and it’ll only increase from there

[@Unix2816]

I as a nugget engineer, I can confirm that this is a certified bootleg nugget classic

[@Meg10170]

The way I screamed when it said Bye-Bye 😭💀

[@imatree.8994]

I don't know but I feel like it didn't work because he erased it but, how do I know? I have a stinky brain.

[@Magicmushroomboi]

It feels almost like someone tried their best to specifically get it this bad 😂

[@ChristopherHindefjord]

@11:59 If you open an actual (random) Apple product, you could actually find some Samsung chips (like memory/NAND) in it. Samsung is(/was? Seems Apple aimed to do more "in-house") one of the suppliers, of various parts, that Apple uses (others being Toshiba, SK Hynx, Micron, etc) If I read the markings on the chip correctly it seems to be a 1GB flash chip, so yeah that "8GB tick mark" blatant lie.

[@bm652Z]

I love how disc utillity says at 5:43 it says “Child count = 1” xD