Subj : Bye Bye iPod
To   : Ennev
From : Arelor
Date : Wed May 11 2022 15:12:52

  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?
 > 

Even cheap feature phones can double as an mp3 and radio player these days.
There is not much of a reason for having a vanity portable music player
anymore.

I never understood the iPod fever. A Sansa Clip would get you about the same
service without making you dependent of the Apple ecosystem. Everybody who used
an iPod around me needed a different sort of wire and a specific software suite
for it. Meanwhile normal people using commodity players got the same service
without having to suffer.

I still have my old players and use them every now and then :-)

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