On its 10-year anniversary, Bernard Zuel looks at how the iPod changed the consumption of music.
LET'S not get completely carried away with the iPod. It's not like portable music was new. The transistor radio helped create the go-anywhere teen of the 1960s and confirmed the single as the dominant way to bring music to young record buyers. In the early '80s the Walkman brought rhythm, if not necessarily dignity, to the gym nuts and amplified the idea of music as something that could be part of every aspect of your life. The Discman a few years later meant you could have that for a whopping 74 minutes of uninterrupted - as long as you didn't move - music.
However, the story of the iPod is how it took everything we already knew and multiplied it, for both good and bad. More Read
LET'S not get completely carried away with the iPod. It's not like portable music was new. The transistor radio helped create the go-anywhere teen of the 1960s and confirmed the single as the dominant way to bring music to young record buyers. In the early '80s the Walkman brought rhythm, if not necessarily dignity, to the gym nuts and amplified the idea of music as something that could be part of every aspect of your life. The Discman a few years later meant you could have that for a whopping 74 minutes of uninterrupted - as long as you didn't move - music.
However, the story of the iPod is how it took everything we already knew and multiplied it, for both good and bad. More Read
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