Apple’s USB SuperDrive might be gone for good

Apple’s USB SuperDrive is showing up successful Apple’s online stores arsenic “sold retired aliases unavailable successful each countries,” MacRumors reports, which could bespeak that Apple has discontinued the CD / DVD player.

It’s not a immense astonishment that Apple mightiness beryllium done pinch the SuperDrive. The merchandise first launched pinch the original MacBook Air, which didn’t person an optical drive, successful 2008, truthful it’s rather old. The SuperDrive was shown arsenic “sold out” online connected Apple’s US online shop earlier this year. And beingness media conscionable isn’t arsenic wide utilized arsenic it erstwhile was, moreover though location person been aggregate caller reminders of why integer ownership sucks.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. The company’s listing for the SuperDrive is still connected Apple’s online store, truthful you tin return a look if you want to reminisce astir really it would thief you “watch a DVD movie, instal software, create backup discs, and more.” Good times.

(Of course, if you do request an outer optical drive, you tin ever bargain 1 that’s not made by Apple.)