Man just compare iPods with walkmen and cd players

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I'm old enough to remember when the Walkman was introduced and what a brilliant thing it was. You could record an album on each side of a C90 cassette and although they were a bit bulky to put in your pocket you could carry it in a bag with about 5 cassettes and have ten albums to listen to while you travelled on the bus etc. You should never underestimate how liberating this was.
Nowadays I walk around with 500 albums on my 30gb iPod and am grateful for that, and how easy it is to load with music, and how easy it is to edit the albums loaded, not to mention playlists etc.
Musicassettes were developed in a spirit of cooperation, Philips invented the cassette but Sony introuced the Walkman. I wonder if that spirit will ever be resurrected in the form of universal formats for MP3 players.

fereal, technology has come a long way, the main thing that niggles me is that the smaller things are the more they become jewellery & fashion... i know brand new means price is often pitched to fund R&D in technology, but yeah i feel the fashion element of small pocket goods goes far beyond that... i remember only a few years back an SD card 1gb would cost 400 now it's about 20 (even that's expensive considering what it actually is!) to me that is blatantly scamming people who are dazzled by the latest, which of course is old news very quickly. some people are too impatient.

everyones journey is different, for me it's been the mechanical things which have gone... walkmans, discmans, minidiscs... i eagerly await the high capacity flash player (they've already started coming), simplicity = reliability & those shameful companies (ie: mobile phone mfrs) making short life span goods will only get themselves bad reputations in the long run.

annoyingly the future is already here but manufacturers are still trying to be exclusive & needlessly charge stupid amounts for things that should be common place, like, yesterday. they still won't entertain the thought that cheaper prices = more sales = more cash flow & broader feedback to R&D meaning better products in the near future.

it's funny to think of music on magnetic tape or lazer disc being [man]handled by things with cams springs rollers & screw threads.

i remember when i used my old walkman back in the day, i even remember recording off the radio onto tape, i still have a old panasonic tape player that's hardly used now, CD players are becoming obsolete too, the ipod is very overwhelming it can carry all of your music library in a small hard drive device, it is amazing, gone were the days where you had to carry 10 or so CD in a wallet and if you wanted to change tracks you have to take out the CD and change it for another one, i'm still surprised that CD's are still sold in the high street, i wonder how long it is before CD's will be obsolete?

I had a Walkman. I still do. Only now I don't use it because of my iPod.