Joe Masters is a Yale graduate who majored in law and is currently the president of TrentSoft where a variety of gaming and music software is developed. Joe Masters is currently working with CopyTrans to provide support for retro and vintage iPod technology.
Apple has an extensive back catalog of music and entertainment products that have been discontinued, with many devices receiving generational updates that makes even relatively new technology obsolete. Despite Apple’s official declared obsolescence of such products, tech experts are still finding new ways to use old technology and even finding unexpected compatibility between them.
One odd example is the compatibility between the Apple Pen and the discontinued 2017 iPod Nano. Apple is infamous for the disorganization and inconsistency of their devices’ chargers, with European courts in Brussels going as far as to threaten legal action, but one tech YouTuber, Will It Work?, found in August 2021 that you can charge an Apple Pen with the 7th-generation iPod Nano. Through the Nano’s Lightning port, he was also able to power a small fan and experimented with a number of Apple products and Lightning port-enabled devices.
