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After selling iPods for almost 22 years, Apple has decided to stop making them. The iPod changed the way people bought music and listened to music. It was a music player like the Sony Walkman, which played cassettes, but unlike the original Walkman, it played digital music. An iPod could hold 1,000 songs, and Apple starting selling digital music cheaply, only 99 cents (about 100 yen) for each song. People made regular talking programs called podcasts (iPod + broadcast) which, unlike radio, you could listen to at any time. These days, people don’t need an iPod. Instead of buying and keeping music on their devices, they use music streaming services. Besides, iPhones and other cell phones can do everything that an iPod can do. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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