![]() ![]() There was a time in which iPods ruled the world a time in which a small slab of aluminum that served as a seamless extension to an excellent file-management program like iTunes was an unstoppable force. The problem is that asking regular people to manage their iPod’s music files in 2012 is basically the same as asking them to actually code their own iPhone apps. It’s supposed to make people squeal that it looks like a little iPhone, and it works pretty much every time. Sure, the icons are circles instead of squares, and it’s ridiculous that you only get four color-coordinated wallpaper options plus gray, but it doesn’t really matter. (The nano isn’t running iOS, though - it’s some other thing Apple just calls “nano OS.”) The black one is particularly handsome. Most of the apps are nearly identical to their iOS counterparts, from the now playing screen to the clock app to the settings app. ![]() Apple’s taken lots of cues from the iPhone and iPod touch: there’s a home button on the front, a sleep / wake button at the top, and a volume rocker on the right with a play / pause button in the middle. ![]() ![]() Of course this is Apple’s new iPod nano, you say to yourself. It’s the sort of product that only Apple can make a seamless slice of metal and plastic that feels essentially inevitable once you hold it. If you’re cool with managing files, the new iPod nano is the best dedicated music player on the market. It’s like taking a time machine to 2010, before Apple itself started pushing everyone away from files and towards iCloud. You want to listen to music with an iPod nano? Then you better get ready to open iTunes and plug in a cable and transfer some hot nasty files. Remember files? With file extensions? And sizes and bad metadata and missing cover art and all those weirdo checkboxes in iTunes that make compilation albums either go together or not go together or maybe make tracks appear in seemingly random order throughout your huge list of music files? Using the seventh-generation iPod nano in 2012 involves taking a trip back to a world in which files really matter. ![]()
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