iPod Nano 6G: An ancestor to the Apple Watch?
(7 May 2025) We all know the Apple Watch, and the iPod. Why do I bring both up in the same sentence? What if the Apple Watch had an iPod-based ancestor? That's exactly what the 6th generation iPod Nano was, in hindsight. So, IS it a ancestor to the Apple Watch?
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Music (in chronological order)
- "Cued For Liftoff" by Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz, Tone Seeker
- "Where We Wanna Go" by Patrick Patrikios
- "New Year" by Bad Snacks
- "Lost World" by White Hex
- "It Devours" by Chasms
- "Time Parade" by Geographer
Works Cited
- "Apple iPod nano 6th gen review: Apple iPod nano 6th gen", Jason Jenkins, CNET. 2010 Sep. 16, accessed 2025 Apr. 22 and 23. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/apple-ipod-nano-6th-gen-review/
- "Apple Watch, meet your iPod ancestor", Scott Stein, CNET. 2015 Apr. 9, accessed 2025 Apr. 22 and 23. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/2015-apple-watch-vs-the-2011-ipod-nano-watch/
- "Apple's Watch-Sized iPod Nano is Officially Obsolete", Joe Rossingol, MacRumors. 2017 Sep. 3, accessed 2025 Apr. 22 and 23. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/03/ipod-nano-sixth-gen-now-obsolete/
- "Apple iPod Nano 6G", Stephen Dean, The Register. 2010 Sep. 15, accessed 2025 Apr. 22 and 23. https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/15/review_media_player_apple_ipod_nano_6g/
- "Inside the iPod nano, 6th generation", Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNET. 2010 Sep. 9, accessed 2025 Apr. 22 and 23. https://www.zdnet.com/article/inside-the-ipod-nano-6th-generation/
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- IPod-Nano-5G-front-back.png by Lubyanka, CC BY-SA 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- IPod_nano_7G_pink_front.jpg by Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- IPod_Nano_-_LunaTik_and_TikTok.jpg by Aaron Muszalski from San Francisco, United States, CC BY 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
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