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More people are snapping up old MP3 players for a break from smartphones.
By the numbers: Search interest for the original iPod and the iPod Nano spiked last year — even though Apple discontinued the product line in 2022, according to Google Trends data.
eBay searches jumped for the iPod Classic (+25%) and iPod Nano (+20%) between January and October 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, per internal data shared with Axios.
Zoom in: Old iPods fill Facebook Marketplace, with iPod Shuffles going for $35 and iPod Classic going for upwards of $100 in the Dallas area.
The bottom line: What goes around comes back around, click wheel and all.
