@ethanschoonover If Apple designed an iPod today, it would be the equivalent of a portable radio from the ‘80s blaring random, algorithmically selected top-40 music interspersed with increasing levels of advertising. The playlists would be driven more by deals with record labels than by the user's tastes or preferences. In other words, the opposite of everything that made digital music players—and the iPod in particular—hugely popular.