![]() ![]() It was so much lighter and smaller, yet it had a bigger screen and video playback capability, a pleasing, slightly curved, rectangular body, and, of course, a click wheel. Mine was a 2008 16 GB 4th generation, blue, with color display. I stuck with that Mini until it stopped holding a charge, and moved onto the model that had replaced it, the Nano. Holding the Mini now, it seems like it weighs a ton, but compared to the Walkman and Discman, it was light as a feather. I hooked it onto my waistband, hit “shuffle” and listened to my own freeform radio station when I was cooking dinner (still my favorite use for the iPod). I had a 2004 1st generation iPod Mini, green, with the tiny screen and the big click wheel, and I used that baby everywhere. What a ridiculous invention.īut my first iPod … sweet liberation! Light, palm-sized, skip-proof, no physical media to carry, yet you could take your entire music collection with you - it was the best of all worlds. I still have a Discman in the junk drawer. The discs skipped and I hated the stupid foam fanny pack-type belt holder accessory. But, unlike the Walkman, it was practically impossible to be mobile while using one. Yes, CD’s sounded better and were more convenient to search than cassettes. Discman: Man, I really disliked the Discman. Walkman: On the bus, on my way to work, earphones in, listening to mix tapes. Boombox: Road trip to Asbury Park, Springsteen cassettes blasting out the windows. Transistor: On the front porch, in the summer, 10-years-old, AM Top 40 countdown. Just typing the names of those devices conjures flashes of memory. Ever since I was a kid, I carried my music with me, consuming it in my head, on a succession of ’60s transistor radios and ’70s boomboxes, followed by an ’80s Walkman and a ’90s Discman. ![]() Tech moves fast, and I made my choice to not move with it.īut it pisses me off that the most perfect portable music delivery system I’ve ever known is now - like a string of forerunners - over. Look, I know that, as an old lady who doesn’t see the point of replacing a perfectly good working gadget every five seconds with a shinier iteration of the same, I am not Apple’s target consumer. But Apple’s announcement still makes me angry. You bought an iPod, you loaded your music onto it, The End. I see the business logic to it: Unlike the iPhone, the iPod wasn’t a robust revenue stream. Apple all but abandoned iPod fans like myself when it shifted its focus to the iPhone. As the owner of a 2008 4th generation iPod Nano, which I still use every day, I’ve seen the writing on the wall for a long time now. ![]() For younger people, the iPod is as attractive as a gramophone. As music players, they were eclipsed years ago by the iPhone, and, to a lesser-degree, the iPod Touch (basically, the phone without the calling capability). Most people might have been surprised to learn that those two lower-end iPod models had been, in fact, still alive in 2017. ![]() Last week, Apple announced the death of the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle, its last two stand-alone MP3 players. Or just contact us and we’ll get you pointed in the right direction.My precious. To find out who your local MPP is, go to .ca and type in your postal code. And ask them to stop the Student Choice Initiative before it’s too late. So if you’re reading this, we’re asking you to contact your local Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) as soon as possible. Instead of choices, students will be forced to gamble with their money – not knowing which organizations will last the school year.Ĭampus life, student resources, volunteer opportunities, independent media, thousands of jobs – all are on the line now. Soon, their collective voice will be silenced, while the campus organizations that advocate for their rights will be simultaneously destabilized. Through the process of democratic referendums, students already voted to support each of these services – making sure the resources stayed available to everyone on campus, and making sure that students have the choice to access them. And those things do sound great – freedom, choices, money…all great!īut it robs students of their democracy. Supporters of the new rule say this is a good thing – that it gives each student freedom to choose the services they support, treats them like adults, and maybe saves them a bit of cash along the way. In fact, it threatens to defund campus radio stations and newspapers, student governments, campus resource centers, and so many more valuable student organizations across the province. The Ontario government is introducing an unprecedented new rule it calls the Student Choice Initiative, and it jeopardizes the future of our radio station. CFRU has an urgent message for our listeners ![]()
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