unfortunate, the ipod touch was a super handy device for all kinds of applications. Great for giving to kids so they could have an 'iphone'. Bought a ton of these back in the day and paired them to bluetooth pairable RFID reader/writer guns for an RFID retail POC. Nice to be able to write software for a platform you know, or can easily hire for, and deploy it to this kind of device. They often have either weird built in SOCs with proprietary apis for UIs.. though sometimes you are now seeing built in android devices so shrug.
End of an era I guess. Couldn't just rebrand it the 'iPad Micro' and keep selling it :)
The retail price is probably the issue. Apple isn’t really in the business [yet] of selling $200 hardware. The iPad Mini is $130 more than the cheapest iPad. Vs having a model cheaper than the cheapest iPad.
It would be funny and maybe even possible! To have a comeback as an iPad Micro and be the size of the normal iPhones or the current 13 Mini. Though I heard because of its unique size for apple hardware, some apps don’t look correct on it.
Edit: I flubbed. Apple TV has to be under $200. Maybe their Alexa competitor too.
Yeah I still see these used as terminals for waitstaff in restaurants, I wonder what they will move to next, iPhones? iPads are kinda huge, iPad mini is kinda expensive...
End of an era I guess. Couldn't just rebrand it the 'iPad Micro' and keep selling it :)