This was a great device! The first iPod, and indeed Apple product of any form that I owned. I got it was back in 2007 and have moved right through the Apple ecosystem since. It's amazing to see how far we've come. This is a very important device for a number of reasons. In many ways the iPod touch influenced iPad even more than iPhone did, so it's a really big deal. Although the first generation had very limited hardware and software by todays standards, at it's time it really was the best portable media player you could get, other than iPhone, of course.