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IPod was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
December 22, 2004	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 11, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 22, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
January 9, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
January 31, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 24, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 28, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 23, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 23, 2011, and October 23, 2014.
Current status: Delisted good article

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Semi-protected edit request on 27 August 2022[edit]

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Change/Add X: "In 2006, Apple with Irish rock band U2 presented a special edition of the 5th-generation iPod. Like its predecessor, this iPod has the signatures of the four members of the band engraved on its back, but this one was the first time the company changed the color of the stainless steel back from a silver chrome to black. This iPod was only available with 30 GB of storage capacity."

Y: "The U2 Edition Ipod was first available in 2004 in a 4th gen Ipod Classic 20GB model M9787LL/A - A1059 with a silver chrome back with the signatures of the band members. It included a firewire cable." NavinboobJohnson (talk) 15:55, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: the current version feels easier to read. Madeline (part of me) 21:10, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"IPod idog" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect IPod idog and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 11#IPod idog until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 07:21, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The information on Wikipedia is false[edit]

Darren Haslett was the inventor of ipod and after talking to apple in 1997 about his ideas was ripped off by apple they never named their products they just obtained the patents and done the development and gave no credit to him also made false claims that someone else was the inventor and bore false witness in court a spokesman for apple claimed anything discussed with Apple automatically becomes there intellectual property and while on the phone Darren Haslett was supposed to speak with there legal team but instead the line went dead Fact ! 78.150.217.161 (talk) 09:18, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 18 December 2022[edit]

Please replace:

Connectivity[edit]

with:

Connectivity[edit]

FranCatt (talk) 09:50, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merged[edit]

List of iPod models was merged here, but some of its contents don't appear to be mentioned here. It wasn't very well sourced so I won't copy it, but others might be interested in rescuing it. DFlhb (talk) 12:54, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

final iterations[edit]

the article lists the final iteration of each ipod model, but conspicuously does not include the ipod mini. any reason why? 173.49.61.70 (talk) 03:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]