Happy 7th Birthday, iPod!

I've had three, two broke, one was apple's fault, one mine.

Perhaps it would be better to ask: How many iPods have you owned. For me, that would be 7: 1st gen 5GB, 2nd gen 10GB, 4th gen 20GB, 1st gen nano 4GB, 2nd gen nano 8GB, 1st gen iPod touch 16GB, and now 2nd gen iPod touch 32GB. There are also a few other models that I've bought for family members, including a 2nd gen mini 4GB, a 1st gen shuffle 512K and a 2nd gen shuffle 1GB.

well here is a comment to all those that are saying "i dont have an ipod why isnt there a zero on the poll"

THE POLL ISNT FOR YOU THEN

the fact is this is for those celebrating the birthday of the almighty iPod...

we have in the house here, a 30Gig video, 2gig 2G Nano, 4Gb 3G Nano, 8Gb 3G Nano, and an iPhone 3G

and i cant wait till i can get my iPhone 3G

long live the iPod

Here is the thread on macrumors when the first ipod was announced: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500

A majority of the users think it's way too expensive, a bad decision by apple, and a bad product. How wrong they were...

I LOVED the solid-state controls of the original Dock Connector iPod. (Had one, gave it to my mom when I got a video.) I also liked the headphone jack being in the middle and the lock on the right. And I HATE the newest UI, where half of the screen is pictures, arrows don't appear until AFTER you've selected an item, etc. I'll be holding onto my 60GB original video iPod as long as I can.

I have had a few iPods since they came out. Take a look at this picture.

http://www.onefish2.com/2008/08/my-little-ipodiphone-collection.html

And those are the ones I still own. What can i say i am an iPod junkie.

Since 2001, I have owned iPod (10GB, touch wheel), iPod mini (4GB), iPod shuffle (512MB), iPod nano (1st gen and 2nd gen), iPod (5th gen, black), iPod (5.5th gen, white), iPod touch (1st gen, 8GB).

Right now, I have the iPod (10GB, touch wheel) and iPod nano (4GB, 2nd gen, Red); they all still in good condition.

Out of all the iPods I owned, the iPod mini was the I hated the most.

My iPod 5G has been good to me for 2 1/2 years. But a few days ago, my hard drive has been experiencing the click of death (sniff). As soon as I get a job, I'll find a hard drive on the net and upgrade it.

I'm glad for those who have had their iPods (like @Ged, post #7) for a while with no problems.

Your Survey doesn't have an option for Zero. Just a tad biased against those of us who prefer silence to think for ourselves, rather than following the brain-dead herd in having to fill every second of our lives with commercially manufactured sounds to provide a desperate veneer of meaning in our spiritually-empty and personality-free existences. :-)

What might be equally interesting is the average age of all your still-functioning iPods.
Mine is a 10 GB 1st gen that's still going strong.