Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Ennev
From : Arelor
Date : Thu May 12 2022 07:36:22

  Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Ennev to Arelor on Thu May 12 2022 07:48 am

 >  > Even cheap feature phones can double as an mp3 and radio players these days. There is not much of a reason for having a vanity portable music player anymore.
 > 
 > I think that vanity played a lot. A kid wouldn't want to be seen with something else; it was a status thing.
 > 
 > But the other aspect was simplicity, I guess. Where we are all a bunch of geeks familiar with tech, we can rip, recode, format, and copy stuff in our sleep. But for most people, it's not the
 > case. I guess that close-up platform brought simplicity and a clear path to do things; it's the only path but a path that will work.
 > 
 > How many of you set up players for relatives and friends? I think they were loading it up at purchase for a lot of users, and then the player never got any new files into them.
 > 

I think I have only met one person IRL who had an iPod. Everybody else was using something else.

It is not like ripping CDs or downloading from The Pirate Bay is harder than setting up iTunes on Windows. I don't think managing an iPod was simpler.

On the other hand, with modern music players, it is quite common for my mother to ask me to fill hers up with Heavy Metal and then she never bothers to add or remove any music :-)

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