Poddies take control
Unlike Walkman-style cassette and CD players, Apple’s iPod and its imitators are changing fundamentally how we use music
It is easy to dismiss Apple's iPod music player as a fad—and its tribe of fanatical users as members of a technological cult. Yet though there are fewer than 3m of them worldwide, “Poddies” are a small but informative minority. For iPod-like music players that use internal hard disks to store large numbers of tracks are the future of portable music.
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