{"id":140705,"date":"2025-11-15T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140705\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:45:11","slug":"adrian-weckler-the-ipod-has-sucked-the-life-out-of-one-of-lifes-great-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140705\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: The iPod has sucked the life out of one of life\u2019s great pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIt\u2019s 24 years since Apple changed the face of music and helped spawn the age of unlimited everything. Here\u2019s why that\u2019s a bad thing\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The first iPod, launched 24 years ago, was the beginning of the end of limits. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0fc6b840-c86a-4645-a8c1-ff9ffcca9549.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The first iPod, launched 24 years ago, was the beginning of the end of limits. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This week, the iPod celebrated its 24th birthday. I remember how exciting it was. A pocketable digital device that could store hundreds, or even thousands, of songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was a triumph in tech. Life would be better! But it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 24 years since Apple changed the face of music and helped spawn the age of unlimited everything.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8819,32880,61,60,279,80],"class_list":["post-140705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-apple-company","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}