Plus: An interview with Steve Jobs, keeping up with early MIT hackers, and a relatable collapse.
What does Apple, and the world, lose by no longer having an iPod? The question is anticlimactic, because it was a stretch to call the Touch an iPod in the first place. Its iPodness came by way of its iPhone parentage, and as all Apple nerds know, Jobs introduced the iPhone as three devices in one—a phone, an internet communicator, and an iPod. But the iPhone’s secret weapon was actually how its operating system worked with sensors and connectivity to deliver new kinds of apps.
pocket and revealed that 1,000 songs were inside. Having a record collection in a pocket changed how we listened to music. Jobs also recognized that the best way to fill those iPods would be through digital sales. “It’s like the internet wasfor the delivery of music,” he told me in 2003, when the iTunes store debuted. But Jobs was adamant for some time that people always wanted totheir music.
In the post-iPod age, we don’t own songs—we access them. I actually can’t tell you what happened to all the songs I bought digitally or ripped from CDs to fill my various iPods. Sure, I like the idea of listening to anything at any time, but Jobs was right when he said that people like to feel ownership of the music they love. These days, I cling to one island of certainty—a still-working iPod Classic with about 14,000 songs, each of which I personally put there.
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