But even with this in mind, I was a little disappointed to find that there was no Touch ID fingerprint sensor in the home button, regardless of the fact that I only unlock my iPod about a fraction of the number of times I open my iPhone each day. I often found myself struggling to type without making mistakes, since they keyboard felt small and cramped compared to the phone I'm accustomed to using on a daily basis.īecause the iPod isn't meant to replace your iPhone, it makes sense that it wouldn't have all of the same features and benefits found on Apple's smartphones, like the company's facial recognition technology or a high-resolution camera. If you're an avid iPhone user that owns any model newer than an iPhone 5 or iPhone SE, using the iPod touch is going to take some getting used to, simply because the screen is particularly tiny compared to that of modern smartphones. I didn't notice any stutters or lag when playing games like "Dead Trigger 2" or "Shadowgun Legends." Despite running on an Apple processor that's now a couple of years old, the iPod touch was still able to run graphics-heavy games with ease in my experience. The iPod touch has a 4-inch 1,136 by 640 resolution screen with 326 pixels per inch, meaning its display is the same size and resolution as the one found on the iPhone SE from 2016 and the iPhone 5. It has a 4-inch display and an old-fashioned home button with no fingerprint scanner, just like the iPhone 5, but its back is uniformly coated in aluminum, just like the iPhone 7.Īpple's new music player runs on the company's A10 Fusion chip, the same processor that powers the iPhone 7, making it powerful enough to run augmented reality applications. It looks a lot like its predecessor from 2015, which is to say it resembles a combination of the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 7. The new iPod touch, which Apple released on May 28, feels like a trip down memory lane - and not just because it's an iPod. Read more: Apple is planning to release another iPhone that costs less than $1,000 this year. That begs an important question in 2019: Why launch a new iPod now? Who is the new iPod touch for? Why would anyone choose to use it instead of a smartphone? I spent a couple of weeks using the new iPod touch, and I'm not sure I found those answers.
While iPod sales accounted for 40% of Apple's revenue in 2006, according to the data, that figure steadily dropped starting in 2007 following the original iPhone's launch.īy 2014, the last year Apple broke out iPod sales, the music player had accounted for just 1% of Apple's revenue, says Statista. Sales of iPods peaked in 2008 with 54.8 million units sold, according to data from Statista published in 2017, and began to trend downward in the years following. Smartphones quickly replaced our MP3 players as the primary means of listening to music on-the-go, and that's evidenced by the drop in iPod sales after the iPhone launched. Which is why it's somewhat surprising to see Apple release a new iPod in 2019, a device that rose to popularity in an era when the concept of having your entire music library in your pocket was still novel and new to most people. The idea of carrying around a compact, rectangular device that can do just about everything has been the norm for more than a decade. It was the first modern smartphone, setting the stage for today's mobile devices with which we do everything from listening to music to answering emails and paying the bills - and occasionally talking on the phone, too. When Apple cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007, he famously called it "an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator" all in one device.
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