IPod or MP-3 /4 Player
Enhances
Information and music digitization
Obsoletes
Walkman/tape player
Retrieves/Rekindles
Music interest, audio information
Reverses
Cloud player technology
The IPod was originally developed by the military for information storage. This device trickled down into the public as a device to play music wave files or MP-3 files. Before this device existed the industrialize countries had the walkman. Since the early eighties the Sony Walkman dominated the music industry. The IPod or MP-3 player rekindled the music and education industry through portability. The ability to listen to lectures and music anywhere is the advantage of this device. The demise of this device is the limited capacity, along with its size. With the advances of the Cloud the MP-3 player will become the go the way of the Walkman. Size, storage, and technology will make this device antiquated in the next few years.