smartphones<\/a>, often driven by mental health and well-being concerns,\u201d says Ben Wood, chief analyst at market research company CCS Insight.<\/p>\n\u201cHaving a dedicated music device, such as an iPod, is a good way to reduce your dependence on a smartphone and avoid being drawn into other activities, like doomscrolling through social media feeds, when you only really want to listen to music.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you are interested in joining the iPod revival, here are some pointers.<\/p>\n
How to get an iPod<\/p>\n
You cannot buy a new iPod any more, but it is not too hard to get your hands on a used one. There are still a lot of them around because Apple sold 450 million over two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember the iPod? It is making a quiet comeback. Four years after Apple killed off its digital music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[351,22160,195419,195406,195415,156353,91433,772,34956,195412,195408,195409,195404,195410,22159,195413,195411,12444,195418,111,139,69,195405,195414,195416,145,195417,195407],"class_list":["post-374518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-music","tag-back-market","tag-buy-an-ipod","tag-ccs-insight","tag-ebay","tag-facebook-marketplace","tag-ios","tag-ipod","tag-ipod-firmware","tag-ipod-mini","tag-ipod-nano","tag-ipod-revival","tag-ipod-touch","tag-itunes","tag-last-fm","tag-lightning-cable","tag-mac","tag-mercari","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-refurbished-ipod","tag-rockbox","tag-second-hand-ipod","tag-technology","tag-used-ipod","tag-where-can-i-buy-an-ipod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}