Ars Technica Editor at Large, Jacqui Cheng offered up an opinion on Thursday on "Why the days are numbered for the legacy iPod." The original iPod with scroll wheel was introduced in October, 2001. The currently selling iPod classic was introduced in September, 2008 (the earlier version introduced in 2007 was discontinued with the introduction of the newer model).
Ms. Cheng offers the continuous decline since 2009 in sales of the whole iPod category as evidence that it's time to retire the product line or at the very least some of the iPod models. She notes that in the 3rd quarter over the past five years alone the sales drop is signifiant: Apple "sold
