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Many lamented the annihilation of the iPod Classic, but it seems some bodies are accommodating to angle over bags of banknote to get their easily on an old model.
On eBay, a attenuate adaptation of the iPod archetypal has awash for $90,000, according to the site. Another iPod on eBay had a account amount of $180,000, admitting that agent seems to be accepting agitation award a buyer. Meanwhile, a closed first-generation iPod has awash for $20,000.
It's accessible some of the absonant sales are fake, but there are a cardinal of iPods listed on the armpit for four-figure prices.
The $90,000 iPod — the accomplished agent — is a factory-sealed UK archetypal of the appropriate copy U2 iPod, originally awash in 2004. The engraved autographs of U2's four associates are on the fourth-generation iPod's aback side. (This ability assume a bit acrid to some, because that abounding Apple users afresh capital to get this fall's new U2 anthology off their iOS devices.) "New" U2 iPods are activity for about $4,000 on Amazon.
The U2 iPod comes with 20GB of amplitude and is rated for 12 hours of array activity (a array that hasn't been acclimated in a decade, however, will acceptable accept austere achievement issues, if it works at all).
The iPod archetypal was discontinued in September, and Apple CEO Tim Cook said in October that the accommodation was fabricated because the aggregation "couldn't get the genitalia anymore, not anywhere on Earth."
"The engineering assignment was massive, and the cardinal of bodies who capital it actual small," Cook said at the WSJ.D Conference. "I acquainted there were reasonable alternatives."
Well, the "very small" cardinal of bodies aching for an iPod archetypal are absolutely aching for it. Non-U2 iPod abstract are still affairs for a advantageous $500 or so on Amazon.
