The cancellation of the iPod proves the old adage: size is everything.
And the arrival of the shuffle and playlist functions meant we weren’t limited to hearing the tracks in just one order any more. The Apple iPod wasn’t the first digital player but it was the best-looking, the coolest and by far the easiest to use. Just take a look at the image at the top of this post: the pleasantly tactile clickwheel, the shiny finish, even the onscreen font all have a gorgeous, classic look.
True, you still had to rip CDs or buy digital tracks and then download them to the iPod—and it’s easy to forget how much of a faff that was. But it was worth it. As time went by, iPods got smaller and added color screens so you could even watch movies on them, like Wall-E. Capacities grew so you could store way more than 1,000 songs. DRM went out of the window, which helped. And building an iPod into the iPhone helped, too. It’s fair to say that having an iPod equivalent in every iPhone from the first up until the iPhone 13 Pro Max, made a separate device in your pocket less important.
And now that streaming services have up to 79 million tracks, well, there’s no portable device in the world that can store much more than a fraction of that. So, yes, size is everything. While the iPod touch does most of the things an iPhone can, it’s hard to get away from the idea that came with its launch, that it is all about music. Sure, it’s the most pocketable way to carry your music still, thanks to the four-inch display that was first seen on the iPhone 5, but the smallest iPhone, the iPhone SE third-generation, isn’t that much bigger and we’ve got used to bigger gadgets a long time ago.
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