This may make you rethink your iPod

Doug
Doug
Jul 28, 2017 · 3 min read
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There are times in modern life when you don’t need to give your full attention; travelling by train, watching The One Show, having a conversation with the wife …

Listening to music is not so important to me as it may be to other people, so I do not have music on my phone or tablet. What I do find more enjoyable is listening to talk radio, however live radio does not always provide the programming I want to hear. This is why I sometimes enjoy podcasts when travelling or in a hotel.

I do find it cumbersome to listen to podcasts on a laptop or even on a tablet. I don’t have much room on my phone and that tends to get used for other important things.

This is why I am disappointed to see the demise of the iPod nano and shuffle. You can no longer buy an iPod shuffle or an iPod nano.
I guess it was almost inevitable that these devices would disappear, they have not been updated in, like, decades! so it was clearly evident that they were becoming end of life products.

Which seems a shame.

Almost everything these devices could do, you can now do with an iPhone or an iPad or, even, on a MacBook Pro. So you may think that these devices were pretty much obsolete anyway.

Looking at the Shuffle or the Nano, these were small, some might say minuscule, devices and, as such, were swimming against the tide of larger bloated devices we seem to have all around us nowadays. Look at the iPhone plus range, the 10.5 and the 12 inch iPads and you can see how these old little devices seemed out of place in today’s range of Apple technology.

You may also wonder in these days of multi-functional and interconnected technologies, whether there is a place for the small, almost unifunction device such as the iPod shuffle or Nano.

Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash

Then look again and the re-surgence of interest in podcasts and consider how clumsy it can sometimes be listen to these on your laptop when all you want is to just have it playing in your ear. Consider how awkward it can be to get your iPhone setup to take a quick snapshot and, somehow, you end up with a video or a dozen burst shots of your feet.

Here I am, or have recently been, considering the advantages of getting an ipod nano or an iPod touch (which is still available BTW) just to listen to podcasts and then Apple go and pull them.

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