It was smaller, thinner, and much cheaper.
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The iPod touch hasfinally slipped into oblivion, and with itan entire era of music and gadgets.
It became a great way for kids to use apps and for restaurants to give to waiters.
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For many, including this author, it was a first step into truly mobile computing.
Now, it has been supplanted by iPads and by hand-me-down iPhones.
But in many ways, the iPod touch was better than all of these.
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I remember when the iPod touch first came out.
I didn’t understand why anyone would want one.
After all, the iPhone had just been released and it seemed like the better option.
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After all, it was a phone too, so why would you want an iPod touch?
For one thing, the iPod touch was also much cheaper than the iPhone.
In addition, the iPod touch was smaller and more portable than the iPhone.
But it ran all the same apps.
And it was the size and the simplicity that made the little iPod so appealing.
Until then, I used and absolutely loved the iPod touch.
As a totally random, made-up example of course.
And people loved them.
Yes, we also called it iTouch.
That was a thing for a while.
Pushed Out
Eventually, the reasons to buy the touch went away.
Restaurants either switched to using Android phones for their staff to take orders or used the iPad mini.
Really, though, its the iPad that is the spiritual successor to the iPod touch.
But the iPod Touch was an iPod in name only.
Once the click wheel disappeared, replaced by a less-capable music app, the iPod was dead.
For one thing, the iPod touch was also much cheaper than the iPhone.
In addition, the iPod touch was smaller and more portable than the iPhone.
Its time is now over, and thats just fine.
