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hey guys is often and refer to me is something just a little bit unusual these are iPods and no not some relics in the mid-2000s these are hypotheses you can go out and buy today but the question is why to start with we have the iPod touch and this is probably going to be the most familiar it is very much based on the iPhone just with less phone stuff but when we get to the iPod Nano things get a little bit more strange this guy came out in 2012 and really hasn't been updated since so on the surface it looks like a tiny iPod touch in fact it does run some sort of Frankenstein version of iOS but there's a lot stripped out of it however nothing is more stripped down and then the iPod shuffle the shuffle hasn't been updated since 2010 so we're still rocking a whopping 4 gigabytes of no it's - it's two gigabytes which I thought it was for this just seems like such a relic of a different time to be here at $50 the shuffle is about one of the cheapest Apple products that you can buy but it just seems so weird this is still on sale in 2017 inside we get the actual shuffle itself you know what I don't think I've ever actually tried one of these I know I used to have the second gen which was distilled a-squared guy but is a little bit bigger there we go CEO cool am i to you by to music on my shirt right now start here oh boy jerseys are going to be some very useful instructions on how to use my iPod shuffle then I'm going to install the latest version of iTunes oh joy whoa wait a minute wait a minute yo these are the original they have a name the original iPod hit song wait wait you had that iPod smell yo I'm going to bring it back right now that's crazy those it's so old they literally haven't even updated it with ear pods which have been out for like five years now it's so weird that this is being sold today I mean this is not the same Apple who makes the MacBook Pro with no ports in the iPhone with no headphone jack I mean it's all like put on this lady didn't put anything up just a little bit just a headphone jack all right all right we let's get it first shot let's give it a fair shot so to connect it to the new MacBook I have to do this and the MacBook because I didn't know I don't know what I'm doing with my life right now all right so now comes the fun part of trying to remember how to set up an iPod and I hello and this is I haven't used items in so long I've been using Spotify for all of my music I actually need to see what iTunes music I still have oh no there's Nickelback but it's seal why is this seal yeah we can we can cut this part out right they don't even know I ever listen to Nickelback well it sounds terrible no no no okay so these might have been okay back in the iPod days these sounds off forgot how bad do you sound I feel like they were fine back in the day but even like new ear pods done a lot better well the real advantages of the shuffle is really the only reason why I could think of someone actually buying it today is the fact that I should go it's working out or something yeah I get it it's kind of cool they've been making it forever but like I really can't think of any reason why you should buy these in 2017 moving all the way up 2012 we have the iPod Nano now I kind of say the Nano has a little bit of a sweet spot my heart this is my very first ipod I remember back in the day was so cool but now I'm not so sure I will give them one thing this thing is really tiny and unlike the shuffle which is tiny for not particularly a great reason this actually is sort of a full iPod I mean you've got a touchscreen you've got a weird home button there's a lightning port which is unbelievably modern and not from 2010 yep download iTunes of course so while this does have bluetooth it does not have Wi-Fi so you're still not going to be able to have any sort of streaming music or well anything that doesn't feel like it's not five years old although we do have that is actually not five years old aren't your pods or your prospectors old this is more like it so while ear pods might not be the greatest sounding headphones in the world honestly I actually don't mind them especially for when I'm working out and want some use a little bit smaller all just brings me back so much like when we actually had to plug in via USB cables and rip CDs and we are in this is straight-up like old-school iOS so we've got a blue icon we can swipe back you've actually got radio I mean I'm not so sure how often the radio is going to be super helpful but since this is the only form of streaming music your iPod initially worked out pretty well it's a little bitchy um the middle is a really hard word for me to justify I mean sure it's cool to this small and having the touchscreen is nice but man you've got to be a very specific kind of person who wants to spend a hundred and fifty dollars on something like this when you can get something like an iPhone or an iPod for just a little bit more with the iPod Touch we at least have something that was made in 2015 it actually has reasonable specs so we've got the same a processor from the iPhone 6 and as far as the actual design goes this is not that far off from modern iPhone you know this design is actually still really nice so not only am I really a big fan of that blue color but this is nice and thin and oh shucks amazing it has a headphone jack but once you actually fire this thing up you should find if it's still running a fully up-to-date version of iOS the best part about the iPod is that it runs the full app store which means that pretty much any apps that will run on the iPhone will run here most importantly for me as an iPod I can use Spotify Apple music whatever I want okay so well does those other speakers the other iPods black it's not exactly great but that's where the earplugs come in that sounds a lot better so a huge fan of ear pods but the nice thing about the iPod touch is it actually has a reasonable ant and DAC inside and then crazy but you want to listen to some proper headphones so much better not only is it nice to have Spotify on the iPod touch but even if you're away from Wi-Fi you can still download the files locally the iPod Touch is a little bit of a weird one because on one hand it makes a lot more sense than any of these other iPods but on the other if you have a smart phone it really is not a lot of point to getting the iPod touch and that's kind of the biggest issue as you can actually pick up an iPhone 5s off contract for about the same money so should you buy an iPod in 2017 no no maybe I feel like while the iPod Touch does make some sense in the lineup it is really crazy as Apple still sells this entire range of iPods but what do you guys think a lot of time used in iPod let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one