The iPod - What's next?

Picture the scene. The year 1980, a young girl gets her tenth birthday present, desperately hoping that the document is the most wanted object imaginable. You're over the moon to discover that, yes, is the proud owner of a shiny red Walkman. Imagine going to the thrill of the novelty of the situation in his favorite cassette plonk in fact, while listening to music.

Fast forward. The year is 2008, mid-thirties (do the math), the woman grabs her birthdaytoday. She is on the moon to discover that, yes, the iPod is the proud owner of a bright pink. He sits down and plays with the toy again with the same charm that the 10-year-old Walkman for years many years ago, however.

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It 's true that our birthday boy was late for iPod to purchase. According to Wikipedia, in 2007 150 million had been sold worldwide since the iPod first came onto the market in 2001. It would be an understatement, that in this time claiming to haverevolutionized the way people buy, listen and feel the music though.

In the years following are videos and CDs to come (almost) over. The records are the only area of ​​the DJ and those with a love of charity shop chic. Betamax is now a "in" joke, told by those born in the 1970s, a subtle point that they are cool enough to know the words, "Cool for Cats" when they were born in the 80s, still in diapers do. Boxes? They come from the music scene has long since disappeared from the TopThe Pops faded from our television screens.

Live in times of All Things Digital, it's no surprise that music is a concept 'virtual'. But in an age of downloading music continues to decline as the iPod?

Before the acquisition of the CD is used, record stores, "hang around" somewhere - they were full of young people every Saturday. If you wanted to meet up with friends, they knew they would be there. Heading home to listen to your new LP with friends was cool. E 'was onlyto be as exciting a copy of their cassette LP, the transfer of the Walkman ®. All you had to do with music "feely sensitive" - ​​the idea that you maybe one day listening to an album, never thought it was unthinkable.

This is not just nostalgia. There is no doubt that what we lost in terms of sociability, when it comes to music, we have more than made up for in convenience did.

But what is interesting is that some 'ironic, he thought that perhaps we are finally able towhere a music format that will stick for a while '. There is no doubt that the same hardware will continue to shrink. But, it is as a pioneer in that each new innovation in the digital world faster thinking that the residence iPod revolution have created something that really?

Then again, in 1980, it was difficult to imagine that small or "modern" to come along, like the Walkman ...

The iPod - What's next?