CAN I USE iPOD IN 2022?

**CAN I USE iPOD IN 2022?** is the 2nd installment in the Old Tech in the Current Year series.

## Synopsis

King documents his attempt to use the first and last iPods.

## Description

Old tech in the current year?! DO NOT ATTEMPT. APPLE WILL SUE.

## Summary

The video begins with King showing off his scribbled iPad and his scratched up iPod. King tells the viewers about the news that Apple decided to stop producing the 7th Generation iPod Touch, which this is currently the latest one model. King begins questioning why people stopped using them and why they moved on. King had an idea to use the old legacy iPod touch in 2022. King doesn’t know which iPod he wants to use, but since he wants a full-range experience of using an iPod in 2022, he used the 1st (2001) and 7th (2019) Generation iPods for this video. Before starting off with the video, he tells the new viewers to drop a like, subscribe, and don’t watch any of his videos except for USING AN OLD MACBOOK IN 2018.

At the start, King receives a 1st Generation iPod Classic from his uncle. Since he lives in China, working for Foxconn, he snuck one of the iPods home, and sent it to him, so he can get rid of the evidence and not be investigated. King carefully tried to unbox the iPod, but he accidentally tore a side of the box, causing him to get angry and crush the entire box on the floor.

Next, he reviews the *2019 iPod Touch 7th Generation* that he bought at *Best Buy*. King unboxes the iPod 7th Generation by hitting it with his hammer. After removing both iPods from the boxes, he tested them to see if they’re still useable in 2022.

First, King takes a look at the 1st Generation iPod Classic, noticing the design for the iPod is heavy and unwieldy, causing him to drop it on the floor (Even with the *hold* switch in the on position). He decides to remove the *hold* switch off the iPod. People who own an iPhone still drop them in present times, in which he sarcastically threw the iPod into the air. The back of the iPod can easily scratch, so King uses sandpaper to give the iPod a better look. King boots up the iPod, but he was disgusted because the device's monochrome display reminds him of a graphing calculator. After throwing the graphing calculator at the ground, he convinces the viewers that he stopped going to school years after. Since the iPod doesn't have a touchscreen, he drew a happy face, a star, a dollar sign, and a heart on the scroll wheel of the iPod. The scroll wheel and the buttons stopped working, so uses some WD-40 to see if it will fix the functionality, but it didn’t. Only the center and play buttons work fine, and there is only one song owners can listen to (*Lamborghini* by *KSI*). While King was listening to the song, King tested to see if any of his favorite songs can load to the iPod, but it can’t. King noticed the 1st generation iPod has only a FireWire port, causing him to complain and he throws the iPod. King uses Gorilla Glue to solve his problem, but he forgets that FireWire is for charging too. King stated a positive feature that the battery life can last a long time. While listening to his one song, King accidentally dropped the iPod into his bathroom’s sink, King couldn’t handle listening to his song, causing his ears to bleed, so he cuts the wires off, and he is relieved from listening to the song he couldn’t handle. As a result, the 1st generation iPod can still be useable in 2022, for those who are fans of KSI, and likes to listen to that one specific song.

Next, King takes a look at the 2019 7th generation iPod touch, to see if it’s still useable in 2022. He was able to restore his saved data from his current iPhone to the iPod touch. Everything seems to work well on the iPod touch, except for calling, but King doesn’t care about anyway. King’s mom fell down the stairs and yells at her phone for King not answering her call, and failed to dial 911. The iPod touch reminds him of a modern iPhone, but until he used Gorilla Glue to cover up the headphone port, and used his AirPods Pro, he turned it into a modern iPhone. King decides to take his iPod Touch everywhere he go, but once he goes outside, he loses his Wi-Fi connection, and angrily slammed the iPod touch on the ground. As a result, after saving his iPhone 13 from the trash bin and giving kisses to it, the iPod touch is still useable, in which he stomped the iPod, and plays dirty with his iPhone.

King almost forgot to show comparisons between the two iPods. Since the 2019 7th generation iPod touch were sold out on the Apple Website, he was still able to purchase an identical iPod at Best Buy. King wants to keep the iPod touch in mint condition, and puts it in his Apple collection. About the 1st generation iPod touch, King searched for one on ebay, but they were very expensive. King wanted to ask his uncle for another classic iPod from him, but he tells the viewers a bad news that his uncle took over his life, quit his job, and got rid of everything he stole. King had an idea to clean off the blood off the iPod, remove the scroll wheel, and smashes the screen, to reference the movie *Baby Driver*. Once King sells it on ebay for $20,000, a buyer offers to pay $10,000 for it, but he declines it.

Before King trying to conclude his video, the crowd were booing at him, so he did another segment to send the iPods for a repair. First, he tries to repair them himself, but he failed. He takes his 1st generation iPod classic at a local Apple Store at a mall, but it cannot be repaired, due to its ages, and the Apple employer suggests him to buy or replace a new one. The Apple employer offers King to trade it in, but he wants to keep it. Next, King takes his 7th generation iPod touch to another Apple Store, and it cannot be repair due to its retirement. Before concluding the video, King was unable to get the iPods repaired, so King places the iPods underwater in the sink to see if they’re waterproof. However, they weren’t.

## Characters

* King Liang
* King's Mom
* Apple Employer #1
* Apple Employer #2
* IPhone 13 Mini
* Siri (mentioned)
* KSI (debut)

## Trivia

* The scene where King’s mom fell down the stairs was filmed at a different house, not at his previous house.
* The drawings that King drew on the 1st generation iPod classic are references to Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation controller button’s design.
* On (1:13) where King have a big smile is similar to the MOVING ON... (10th Anniversary Special) thumbnail.
* When King couldn’t handle to the song he was listening to, the blood was actually red paint.
* This is the second time King's Mom appeared on his videos in 2022.
* On the 7th generation iPod Touch, the Pizza Hut application’s icon that was seen was the Porn Hub logo.
* This video was formerly called "USING iPOD IN 2022" before changing it to the current one.
* The opening is a reference to DankPods, a YouTuber who makes iPod videos.

## Goofs

* When King sells and listed his destroyed 1st generation iPod classic on ebay, the item’s location shows *Los Angeles, California* below the screen, when King is currently located at Flagstaff, Arizona.
	+ However, this could just be King trying not to reveal the city he's in.
* King’s mom could’ve used Siri to assist her to dial the emergency service rather than dialing the phone number.
* While King claimed that his uncle, who lived in China, made the 1st generation iPod classic. the 1st generation iPod classic was actually assembled in Taiwan.