Apple has a reputation for not being afraid to move on.
Buy a new iPhone, and you’re lucky if iOS supports your device just four years down the line. Buy a Mac? Apple’s constantly making older models obsolete with every new OS X release. Heck, there’s an entire ocean of old PowerPC apps that were orphaned by Apple when they migrated to Intel.
Yet Apple isn’t without loyalty to the gadgets that once made it great. Case in point: If you plug a first-gen iPod into your modern-day Mac, iTunes 12 will still sync with it.
In this video by YouTube director Matthew Pearce, he plugged in an original iPod from 2001 into a Mac running iTunes 12.1 using a FireWire 400-to-800 adapter.
Surprised? It not only worked, but after connecting the device, iTunes 12.1 showed an icon for the original iPod in the sidebar, indicating that this 14-year-old backward compatibility is by design.
Pretty incredible, don’t you think?
Source: YouTube
Thanks: Josiah O.
