You know how a band’s first album is almost always their best? That’s how I feel about the first iPod. Sure, it’s got a muddy, colorless LCD screen, measly 5GB storage, mechanical scroll wheel, only ...

The iPod Classic line was the heart of Apple’s digital music revolution, defining an era of portable media players in the early 2000s. First introduced in 2001 as simply the “iPod,” it featured a ...