![]() ![]() The iPod was cheeky tech bravado, a bold statement for the new Millennium, an extraordinary melding of design and function. Introduced in 2001, apparently dubbed iPod because it looked a bit like the pod door that cranky computer Hal refused to open for increasingly alarmed astronaut Dave in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, iPod was quickly a hit for a still-beleaguered Apple gradually stepping back from the brink of collapse. Alas, I am now of the discontinued iconic Apple product demographic. ![]() Yet the announcement from Apple last week that the iPod was officially a “discontinued product” still came as a little kick to the gut, a reminder that I was old enough to have lived through so many generations of iPods and to qualify as a tech Methuselah. The writing was on the wall for ages and it should have come as no surprise.
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