At the time of launch, some Apple products had almost double the selling price on the black market, and that's because of limited availability, but around Christmas it's not iPhones that are the focus of true fans of the company. releasing iPhone 6 the Apple company decided to remove the iPod Classic, one of its oldest products, from sale, it silently disappearing from the company's online store without any official statement being published afterwards for the withdrawal.
One of this year's hottest Christmas presents is no longer available in the shops. Two months after Apple announced the demise of its iPod Classic MP3 player, the model is being sold secondhand for up to four times its original price as aficionados clamor to get their hands on one. With a storage capacity double the size of any current iPods still being made, versions of the 160GB Classic – which can hold around 40,000 songs – are being sold as new via Amazon for up to £670.
Tim Cook would confirm a few weeks later that the production of the iPod Classic was not profitable and rethinking the product would have cost far too much to justify the development process, so the device has permanently disappeared from the stores. Although the iPod Classic cannot be bought by users around the world directly from Apple, on auction websites he can cost with up to 4 times more due to the extremely limited number of existing units.
iPod Classic is more expensive than iPhone 6 on auction websites
Some Apple fans are willing to pay up to $1000 for a new or used iPod Classic and the amount is almost 4 times higher than what is charged for the product that is technologically surpassed by the current iDevices. An iPod Classic can store up to 40.000 songs without any major problem and the cheapest models have double the available storage space compared to the rest of the iPods now sold by Apple.
Although no one will give up an iPhone 6 this year, the iPod Classic will still attract enough Apple fans interested in a product that will be worth much more in a few years.
