Apple to discontinue the iPod after 21 years
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I only ever owned a mini and it was the best thing for traveling for a few days as it was much smaller and thinner than a wallet. The case for the (wired) buds or headphones was bigger. That and a small battery powered speaker was all you needed for a hotel room stay in most cases.
Big change from schlepping a portable CD player and a book of CDS or a boom box and cases of cassettes.
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Never owned one
Never owned one
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^ I still have it and use it
^ My wife won it in a contest and I adopted it. I still have it and use it occasionally when exercise walking. Sometimes I like wearing the cheap lightweight headphones with the mini rather than phone /earbuds. I use the buds but not a fan. Probably because I never sprang for a really good pair.
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My car is a 2014, and there
My car is a 2014, and there is an adaptor cable in the glove box for an iPod, it goes right into the car's stereo. I have a Nano plugged in and it works just fine.
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I never had an iPod, and I'm
I never had an iPod, and I'm not a big fan of earbuds. Then there's the issue of compressed audio formats, but I have come around on the MP3 issue for listening in the car. My Subaru audio system has a USB port, but won't play FLACs, so I fill up USB drives with high quality MP3s for mobile listening.
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Boombox > iPod. Winning.
Boombox > iPod.
Winning.