News: 2022-05-10_19-45-00_apple-arrete-de-produire-lipod~ad7f20da

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Apple arrête de produire l’iPod

(2022-05-10_19-45-00 (Belga))


Après 20 ans, Apple arrête de produire l'iPod. Le lecteur de musique restera en vente jusqu'à épuisement des stocks, annonce mardi la société américaine.

L'ancien CEO d'Apple Steve Jobs, décédé en 2011, avait introduit l'iPod en octobre 2001. Différentes versions ont ensuite été développées au fil des ans.

En 2014, Apple avait déjà arrêté la production du modèle classique. En 2017, les plus petits iPod Nano et iPod Shuffle avaient également été abandonnés. L'iPod Touch, qui ressemble davantage à un iPhone avec son écran tactile, a été mis à jour en 2019 pour la dernière fois.


On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale
is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright,
non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do
several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works
best, write it down and make that the standard.
The OSI view is entirely opposite. You take written contributions
from a much larger community, you put the contributions in a room of
committee people with, quite honestly, vast political differences and all
with their own political axes to grind, and four years later you get
something out, usually without it ever having been implemented once.
So the Internet perspective is implement it, make it work well,
then write it down, whereas the OSI perspective is to agree on it, write
it down, circulate it a lot and now we'll see if anyone can implement it
after it's an international standard and every vendor in the world is
committed to it. One of those processes is backwards, and I don't think
it takes a Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford to figure out which.
-- Marshall Rose, "The Pied Piper of OSI"