TechTV First generation iPod Review

[@wifiocean]

00:45 Reviewer: "... No big deal, just a design flaw." Steve Jobs: "Listen here, you little shit..."

[@ellagasts]

This is definitely going on my Christmas list

[@AliceC993]

Back in 2001, a 5GB HDD for the size was pretty good, especially for the price.

[@Millahtime]

I remember my first experience with this 1g iPod back in 2001...it was unlike anything I've ever used, the idea of having your entire music library in such a small and user friendly device was a total breakthrough for the time.

[@clintgolub1751]

Still is man!

[@oprahwinfrey878]

Lets do an inflation calculation! $399 back in the year 2001(iPods initial release) is equivalent to $538.55 in the year 2015

[@Tonia682]

@Rodolfsk8 A buffer is designed to prevent jerky play-back when streaming content by detecting how much it needs to download in advance in order to maintain a smooth play-back. I had a portable CD player I took to the gym in 2001 that only had 20-30 sec of buffering and that was a big selling point. Without the buffering if you were moving the music would be herky jerky. At that time 20 minutes was unheard of.

[@thenormalone6753]

And now through music streaming, almost anyone with Internet is able to listen to almost every song ever created. Everything wirelessly. That’s some Star Trek type of shit

[@DURAMAX10100]

wow when you look at this now and all the things they were so excited about you think 'duh' it's amazing how far we've come and how these technologies have become so intagrated in our life that all this stuff that was so "far" out there ten years ago is second nature to us now!

[@jjphel]

In 2001 I was only 4 years old and I strongly remember my Dad buying this and me asking him "Dad what is this thing" he replied "this is going to change a lot of things"......Look how far we have come in terms.

[@DAVIDSDIEGO]

Thanks for sharing this video! I can't believe he said "design flaw"; he was misinformed back in 2001. Part of the reason it was designed on the top is due to SJ revealing the new iPod from his jean pocket. He also added Apple's slogan: "1,000 songs in your pocket.". Who wants that jack sticking on the side of their pocket? Obviously, cases would be designed for the shape of iPod.

[@OrganicAct]

This is great and I remember watching TechTV in Hawaii. I thought the channel was interesting.

[@silliepooh]

I still have that Ipod. Yes, I bought it a couple of months after it came out.

[@CelestialStarshine]

I remember my friend wating in line for hours to get one of these. Stopped working within a few months lol

[@tribaltroll]

I was in high school when this came out. I had a cheaper MP3 player, but still... Not having to have my discman with me, and having to pick out a CD in the morning before I went to school. Some of my friends would bring a small CD organizer in their backpack and change out CDs throughout the day. Haha brings back memories

[@underfan15]

u know, its crazy, people w/ iTouches tend to take it for granted, but then, when u see this video, it puts everything in perspective

[@Nonon471]

Mine still works after all these years. Sure, it's a little beat up (It's a lot beat up), but ol' iBetsy has been keeping the world at bay for ten years.

[@brandune96]

I think that this is amazing that this hard drive was half the size of the iBook G3's hard drive!!

[@zack0107]

"You mentioned you took this to the gym" "I DID!" lolol

[@Cincinnastyful]

A brick that plays music. That's amazing.

[@RollOnToVictory]

@Roq999 odd I've had the opposite experience with apple/other devices. My second generation ipod still works after putting up with three zunes and a SanDisk and a Sony device.

[@r2hMisTaKeN]

@mrwellywonka oh so there is a disc spinning inside? would suck if u were in a car and u it a bad bump and dropped it. there goes ur ipod..

[@roq99]

I purchased a 10 gig second gen iPod and it stopped working 8 months after mild use. I purchased a 30 gig Creative Zen Vision:M for one hundred dollars cheaper and it works to this day, six years later. I have never purchased an Apple product since.

[@DelilahThePig]

Frank Zappa's idea (in the 80s) was to use a telephone service to download digital music to DAT cassette! Amazing how things change.

[@GarrettLunn]

"The battery..... 10 hours!" "WOW" 3:38

[@PolarWorks]

Great Video, i like to have one of those in good state

[@Ethan__900]

why did apple change from fire wire to what they have now?

[@aaronr112]

lol i bought a Shuffle 3G night and day compared with the nano size, but i wonder how many can fit in a 1st gen

[@Demache92]

@uri0316 I think that's a sign on how times have changed. Back then, apparently, it was really common to have a headphone jack on the side of your portable music player. Now many players and phones have it either on the bottom or top. And I actually think that's how it should be. Because, a headphone jack hitting your crotch isn't fun.

[@domdomdrumdrum]

wow just a few years ago solid state referred to an hdd compared to an optical device...

[@BoyBoyChannel]

when was this taken? Look at his Mac, it looks like a MacBook Air which is like 100 times thinner than the ipod.

[@Andy-Mesa]

@xrtsplash This review was made in 2001. He was using a Titanium PowerBook G4 (aka "TiBook"). I had one.

[@lumpylumpyloo]

I doubt that

[@r2hMisTaKeN]

its not a harddrive. is there moving parts in the device? no. 5 GB flash drive

[@MrMuschimoto]

It's actually a 2G unit with the non-mechanic dial.

[@Rodolfsk8]

what do they mean with the buffer??

[@oscarsanders07]

this iz what our ancesters used when they came to america. when they got bored on that ship they would listen to the first death metal song ever!!

[@BoyBoyChannel]

i agree with Heyitsbao you put your ipod in your pocket right way up headphone jack isn't a design flaw

[@rayquazaboi]

see how far they've gone, its like comparing from windows 98 to windows 7

[@dan22482]

Windows computer don't have Firewire ports? The two Firewire ports on my Windows PC say differently... USB 2.0 is almost as fast as Firewire so it wasn't really that big of a change

[@fastashelltibby]

wow how far ipods have came!!!!!!!!

[@kurtthewurt]

oh wow. I would die if my headphone port was on the side! So long in-pocket iPod!

[@gordononeill1012]

@Roq999 i would recommend trying again

[@VazDraeStudios]

that was b4 they had USB 2.0... which i believe is just as fast.

[@cmsmart13]

To be fair, when I saw an iPod for the first time, I never imagined I'd be able to make phone calls with it one day.

[@osborl12]

@Theplacetogo That's what I was thinking. Why was he complaining?

[@Atheismrulez]

It actually has a 24 hour battery life; the iPod classic and touch have a 36 hour battery life.

[@flipeurfish]

Beileive give an ipod touch 4g at this time xD Wtf perfect photo ! Wow the screen is touch !! :0

[@Tokiopopski]

We came from that to iPhones and iPod Touches in under 10 years. What's going to be around 10 years from now I wonder.

[@GalacticGamerYT]

Hey sorry I'm a little late, past two years have been rough with the pandemic and all... Well anyways Steve Job died, they got an Apple Watch now. Rumors of them getting invested into making some sort of Apple Car maybe? Who knows? There's also the Apple TV. It has like KZbin and TV shows on it, games too and Fitness! The iPhone ends up getting three cameras on the back and has a weird notch design. The new M1 chip was announced recently. Oh and Airpods! They're like earbuds but truly wireless!

[@Tonia682]

@ItsMrBigfence I agree. What was he smoking!?!?!??!

[@psychoclown420]

ha! back then, a headphone jack at the top was considered a design flaw

[@valkyeerios]

Wow can you believe we had to pay 399$ for that. Shocking how far we've come since then.

[@InsertChanneNameHere]

"This is the power supply."......."How does it work?"- I loled

[@altobag97]

Hard drive 5gb, it has a sensitive wheel, oh and it doesnt fully charge with the cable... $399... 2010: iPod touch 3rd generation, 3.5 multitouch color screen, 64 gb flash memory, 8.5mm thick, $399. So which one is better?

[@Gredran]

at this point you couldn't in 2001, but itunes is for windows now so all the ipods and the iphone can sync with windows

[@CyberSpectrumND]

@camcamomille95 It was 2001 bro, iPod didn't really take off until around 2003 or 2004 is when it got real popular.

[@parentaladvisory121]

0:34 Gym Pouch?

[@Mckelio23]

Anyone have clips from TechTVs 2002 Technology Festival?

[@JanSapper]

super ipod... but is that the mac book pro? it seems it hasn't changed as much as the ipod has it?

[@arjunkrishna1]

Come to 2019 and buy Sony Walkman NW A46

[@drpepper576]

wow very true. they were also kinda dumb to think about if you have it in your pocket its gunna be a pain in the ass to have that sideways in your pocket

[@WCBs]

a 5G hardrive?!!!! WOW

[@estebankid10]

@therreid actualy its even more expensive because it is considered a piece of history

[@Spiffy_SiFF]

and then the madness began!

[@brizzlefizzle]

@jerelfromthebay he means on the side of the top of it like the new ones

[@SpyceySalad]

is it true apple is discontinuing the Classic in september?

[@GalacticGamerYT]

I don't know.

[@JohnnysChingaderas]

:) i had a jukebox nomad that was the shit back 10 years :P

[@niteflash06]

And now it's two 8gb iPod Touches!

[@lazadar]

Here they are talking about hoping to see the improvements to the ipod and now you can't go anywhere without seeing an ipod.

[@flybikes90]

i think hes used to his sony walkman cassette player

[@greendaysaint8302]

thats so crazy that the first ipod had a hdd wow ther down to flash memory now what next?

[@thewizard773]

@xrtsplash it was made in 2001 lol it is bound to be bad quality

[@psychoclown420]

i think it was a titanium powerbook g4

[@Choukaier69]

He doesnt mean the side, like the left or right side, he means like on the top but at the edge, no the middle. Personally, i dont think it's a design flaw that it's in the middle, i just think it's different.

[@OniLunchbox]

This makes me cry manly tears.

[@gperme1993]

If someone asked you what an iPod was today, you'd probably assume they had just stepped out of a DeLorean.

[@vb7200]

They should see the iPod touch!

[@KillerFromGod]

I remember being the cool kid on the block with this big old brick lmao

[@16mmDJ]

FUCKING AWESOME!!! i want one. (i wonder if it would work with windows)

[@BigBossGR]

@PalkiaLegends only.... damn its a cheap hdd with an audio out.... have you ever thought about that? You can buy an mp3 player with 4gb (which is more than enough for music) for about 35$!!!

[@AliceC993]

Yeah, at the time, USB was 12 MB/s and FireWire was about 400.

[@MOSKAR1]

is the same cost as the ipad now... yeah!! i love technology!!

[@OldSkooRebel]

Openly putting files on your iPod. Those were the days...

[@EndOfTheW0rld]

@Ethan9unicyclelist USB ended up becoming the standard. So they either went USB or dealt with compatability issues with Firewire. If you notice, not many computers have Firewire ports these days. The most you'll see if one. If any at all.

[@Choukaier69]

What year did this come out?

[@arjunkrishna1]

2001

[@sunshinesuds]

WOW is that a PowerBook G4???!!!???!!!

[@BeGoodtoYourPlanet]

Way back when TechTV actually had technology. Now it is G4 and only shows reruns of Cops and Japanese obstacle course shows!!!

[@jason34587]

@Apoc897 11 years ago

[@SweetSoulBrother0]

Thats because it was a nano, this is the ORIGINAL iPod not a 1st gen nano, the first whitr brick iPods didn't have windows support

[@FacadeWitch]

the guy said that he wished to see more ipods from apple...bet he didnt know that the ipod brand was gonna be the worlds most popular mp3 player by far

[@wreynolds1995]

lol, ig we got these guys back then, and brought them to 2009, they would probably go insane at the level of technology.

[@catgirl_eva]

Little did they know, this was one of the things that helped make Apple the juggernaut that it is today.

[@rysnyper50002]

Apple took a big jump and began to build ahead of their time when the Nano 1 gen came around.

[@brandune96]

@gperme1993 That comment made me want to watch that trilogy !!

[@jjphel]

@MegaHolymoly yes im 13 why?

[@Poever]

who would've known this would explode two years after its debut? 'Round 2003 by my account. By the way, 5 gigs for an iPod is hilarious!

[@applefanatic414]

Umm he wanted the headphone Jack on the side??? It's so much better on the top if it is in your pocket.

[@estebankid10]

@CFAMediaV7 YES!!!

[@eltocliousus]

@siblilngs101 Whoa, a product in 2010 is better than a product in 2001? Mind, Blown.

[@brandtaylor93]

@AdamRan not the clasic

[@jeremyc311709]

WOW $399 for that dinosaur! Now we have 160gb for a lot less!

[@djcruella]

Woohoo! 5 Gig HD!

[@torbar]

@jeremyc311709 Yeah, it's amazing how far we've come, even just from a few years ago. Imagine people 10 years from now. "Wow, $250 for 160 gigabytes? We have 250tb mp3 players for 100 dollars"