September 6, 2007
Good bye iPod Hi-Fi
Posted Sep. 6, ’07, 6:23 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | iPod » iPod Accessories
With all the fanfare, it’s easy to have been distracted from the fact that the iPod Hi-Fi seems to have been discontinued. If you visit the product’s web page (which still exists, oddly enough), you’ll find a link supposedly pointing to it in the online store which leads to nothing. Further, searching for “Hi-Fi” at the store yields two third-party products, but not the iPod Hi-Fi.
It’s gone. Truth be told, it was about time. So many Apple observers are jumping on the “Apple TV is a failure” bandwagon that they’re missing the really big failure, the iPod Hi-Fi. It was released last year during an event that announced the first Intel-based Mac mini and… overpriced leather iPod cases. I remember at the time thinking that both the Hi-Fi and those cases were doomed for failure. Turns out, I was right.
In particular, the Hi-Fi was a bit overpriced and didn’t have the customer demand to back it up. For some reason, Apple’s never had good luck with creating iPod accessories, save the socks, the socks. Anyway, iPod Hi-Fi, it was real, it was nice, but it wasn’t real nice. Bon voyage.
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