Where you one of those who have shed a tear last month after discovering that Apple had terminated its famous iPod classic? Your sorrow was so great that your love for Apple faltered, forcing you to reevaluate your relationship with the company that over the years you participated in revenue records?
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If "yes", then the boss of Apple, Tim Cook, wants you to know that, strictly speaking, it was not recorded on his own iPod classic museums. Indeed, this measure was taken because other companies have stopped manufacturing dedicated to manufacturing parts .
His comments appeared in a question and answer session at the conference WSJ.D in Laguna Beach, California, on Monday. To point out that Apple is not responsible for the destruction of the emblem of the Cupertino, he added: "It was not a question of taking an ax and say, what am I going to kill today ? ".
And do not think for a moment that the technology giant might one day replace the device obsolete by something similar, relying on other providers.
"We should make a new product," says Cook the public. "The engineering work to do would be enormous" . And then the blow, truth, rather obvious reason why Apple dropped the iPod classic: "the number of people who desired was very small" .
The iPod classic, which disappeared quietly on the website of the Cupertino last month, was the sixth generation of its popular Walkman launched in 2001 and which helped revive the brand.
The original version with the iconic scroll wheel only offered 5 GB of internal storage. But it was possible to put "1,000 songs in your pocket." A revolution! However, the final model offered up to 160 GB of space for working with photos and videos as well as audio. It made people very happy.
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If "yes", then the boss of Apple, Tim Cook, wants you to know that, strictly speaking, it was not recorded on his own iPod classic museums. Indeed, this measure was taken because other companies have stopped manufacturing dedicated to manufacturing parts .
And do not think for a moment that the technology giant might one day replace the device obsolete by something similar, relying on other providers.
"We should make a new product," says Cook the public. "The engineering work to do would be enormous" . And then the blow, truth, rather obvious reason why Apple dropped the iPod classic: "the number of people who desired was very small" .
The iPod classic, which disappeared quietly on the website of the Cupertino last month, was the sixth generation of its popular Walkman launched in 2001 and which helped revive the brand.
The original version with the iconic scroll wheel only offered 5 GB of internal storage. But it was possible to put "1,000 songs in your pocket." A revolution! However, the final model offered up to 160 GB of space for working with photos and videos as well as audio. It made people very happy.