iPod Classic Sells For A Hefty Price On Amazon

The 160GB iPod Classic is on offer for $495 from sellers Amazon, for instance, nearly double its original retail price of $260. More than 3,000 iPod Classic units are said to have been sold on eBay since October, while nearly 2,000 are currently listed for sale. The 160GB iPod Classic remains the highest capacity portable device Apple has ever produced. The current generation iPod touch maxes out at 64GB, while the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the newer iPad's max out at 128GB. At the time it was pulled from shelves, the iPod Classic had gone 5 years without an update. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company was no longer able to source parts to build the device, and its sales numbers were not worth re-engineering with new components.

Death Of The iPod Classic Was Due To Availability Of Parts

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple was no longer able to source parts for the iPod Classic, which was the last of its kind to have a spinning hard drive for storing up to 160GB worth of music. He confirmed that development of a replacement model would not be pursued. "We would have to make a whole new product," Cook said. "The engineering work to do that would be massive. The number of people who wanted it is very small." While Apple did not officially announce it would be discontinuing production of the iPod classic, the company quietly removed the device from its website and online store shortly after September's iPhone event. The iPod classic was a design carryover from the music player's heyday and was most recently modified in 2009. Aside from a few aesthetic tweaks, however, the functional bits remained untouched for more than 6 years. With the iPod classic's demise, Apple now fields a total of three iPod models. iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod touch, all flash based devices with storage capacities maxing out at 64GB.

Apple Takes iPod Classic Off Of Store

In the midst of all the announcements this morning, Apple took the opportunity to kill off the iPod Classic. The iPod section on Apple.com now shows just the shuffle, nano, and touch, officially marking the end of era for the click wheel iPod