Subj : Bye Bye iPod
To   : Ennev
From : Moondog
Date : Wed May 11 2022 00:43:00

  Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Ennev to All on Tue May 10 2022 06:54 pm

 > https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/
 > 
 > We will say what we want, but Apple would have been dead and gone without th
 > product. The translucent iMac brought them back, but iPod ensured the cash f
 > that paved the way for iPhone.
 > 
 > I had an mp3 player before getting an iPod eventually and never looked back.
 > They nailed the coffin on other players with the intuitive interface with th
 > scroll wheel. Just sad that it was also a vanity product. You didn't have wh
 > earphones with the iconic white wires. What was wrong with you?
 > 
 > What do you think?
 > 

I guess because I've always been a bit on the autistic spectrum disorder side,
I never saw a dying need to keep up with the Jones'.  I was hung up on the
concept of what people related to as "normal" behavior.  I was happy with a ch
eap but reliable Taiwanese portable tape player, and didn't care about the
vanity factor of owning the latest version Walkman. I did feel what it was
like to be shamed for not having the popular brand of clothese or latest
gadget.  When I was really young my father worked as an inspector at  a large
manufacturing firm, then after 75 years of being in the same town, they
packed up and went down south to a less union-friendly state.  A few more
yeards that company was bought up and shipped down to South America. 
Anyways, my father went from being paid a generous UAW age and benefits level
to less than a third of what we had.  We had to make several cuts to survive.
 It also taught  us kids to value what we could have, and to be smart with
the money we earned.  Some of the best things in life are not things.

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