Those were something, weren’t they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.

And in hindsight… Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn’t it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.

While I’m here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.

I guess just in general I don’t like touch screens and it’ll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don’t actually need them. I’m out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I remember when I first got a first gen ipod nano and it was the first ipod I’d ever actually touched, I tried a lot to do linear swipes across the click wheel and thought it wasn’t working right before I figured out that you’re supposed to swipe your finger on the touch surface in circular motions instead.

    Anyway, the sansa fuze was an ipod nano but better in every way.