The iPod recently celebrated another anniversary. The device was first introduced on October 23rd, 2001 and the very last iPod device,, a vintage tech retailer named Retrospekt brought the fifth-generation iPod back to life by offering"refurbished and restored" units on the website of
The refurbished iPod units received a new battery and 128GB of flash storage. The listing on the retailer's website pointed out that this particular iPod model was from 2007 and each buyer got an original Apple sync cable and earphones. When this iPod first went on sale in 2007, it was priced at $249. Urban Outfitters was selling the refurbished unit for $349 and the retailer's entire inventory was sold out.
When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it was selling approximately 40 million iPods a year. At the unveiling of the handset in January 2007, the latereferred to the iPhone as being a"widescreen iPod with touch controls." The first iPod touch was introduced in September 2007 and the device ran on the same operating system as the iPhone. Jobs once referred to the product as"training wheels for the iPhone.
It isn't known whether Retrospekt plans on refurbishing and restoring more 5th-gen iPods or whether it will turn its attention to other iPod models. But seeing as all of the available units on Urban Outfitters were bought, it would seem silly for the company and the retailer not to keep taking advantage of the nostalgia craze that gave consumers the incentive to shell out the money to buy them.