I never lived early-2000s tech, when products had a soul and quality came first. So I recreated the 2007 iPod as an app, thanks to wabi not for nostalgia, but to explore something I never experienced. The phone is still the right form factor. We just haven’t explored how... much it can morph.show more

Experience the feeling of early 2000s tech: Wabi Pod

@wabi Really appreciate the craft here dude. But questioning why you’d need a separate app on an iPhone to experience an ipod ? 80% of the iPod experience is the tactility, the wired earphones and carrying a single purpose device solely for music. Why not go buy / build one ?

@wabi I already have one, it’s more of an exploration how to make phisical software

@emrekayganaci @wabi “I never got to experience it.” “Oh yea, I have one.”

@emrekayganaci @wabi Experience is also in the process of creation. There is a magic behind the recreation of something physical in to something digital.

@wabi Niceee! Reminds me of @sakofchit's project @retro_mp3

@wabi @sakofchit @retro_mp3 Yes, the need for hardware devices on software is essential in 2025. Skeuomorphic user experience

@wabi nice, very similar to @retro_mp3 and ipod on by @ryolu_

@wabi just buy an ipod and fill it with music dude wtf is this bastardization. sick app 🤣

@wabi Absolute dog shit

@wabi A better version of this has already been done years ago and it has tactile feedback sorry buddy

@wabi It’s has custom click sound made with frequency generation and haptic, Show me the coverflow.

@wabi Same just replied with a screen recording

@wabi this will be fun for like 3 minutes tops

@wabi With Spotify api and apple music it will be more useful, also this are explorations to create new kind of devices so, if you are interested stay tuned. I don’t make apps, I make art.

@wabi ok

@wabi Spotify will acquire this

@wabi I need to get access to this

@wabi Dm me

@wabi If you make a Nokia version it will be a hit

@wabi I hope to live long enough to see it make a resurgence, like vinyl records. It all felt good in your hand.

@wabi How can you say a product, that you never experienced, had soul and quality. This is like nostalgia cosplay.

@wabi every single time somebody makes one of these applications, it never supports local music. I don’t use Apple Music or Spotify, I use local music. Will there be an option to use your local music in this?

@wabi This is brilliant! Can’t wait to see this grow

@wabi wowwwwww amazing

@wabi Best form factor. Music and disconnected

@wabi too bad i no longer waste time putting music i own on my phone.... the apple experience for that has been so painful I quit doing it.... spotify only now

@wabi This is cool but the click of the wheel was everything

@wabi It has click made with a custom sound generator plus haptic feedback I know it’s far from the real one but still I really enjoy it

@wabi So good! 🖤

@wabi Still one of the thinnest Apple products

@wabi Apple should bring the back. No WiFi. No connectivity. These were perfection.

@wabi Wow, looks great!

@wabi That’s why Apple became what it did, nothing else was comparable. Innovation was a necessity

@wabi Those products were never quality first 🤣 But yes, you had to be there for a lot of the fun products we had.

@wabi Have a spare Wabi invite code? (I just DM'd you)

@wabi Wow i need to find a vintage ipod now

@relientkenny @wabi That is sick!!! Covering it in our UI edition

@wabi Can I get on this?

@wabi I remember the days "when products had a soul and quality came first." I sorely miss that era.

@wabi Just go buy one lmao

@wabi Legendary

@wabi find a way to link with Spotify plz

@wabi @dannywhitz this has your name written all over it

@wabi Been on the waitlist for a while, can’t wait to try this out when I get access