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Nikita Achanta

I ditched my smartphone to listen to music on my decade-old iPod — 3 things I liked and 2 I didn't

A space gray iPod Touch 6th Gen.

MP3 players and retro audio tech has experienced a resurgence in recent years, with brands such as We Are Rewind making cassette players. I, myself, am no stranger to the popularity of MP3 players. The early years of my life were spent with a Sony Discman, one I was obsessed with, and I'd spend days burning CDs.

As I grew older, Apple's iPods, came into existence, and boy were they fantastic. I went from having an iPod Shuffle to an iPod nano — and the last iPod I owned was an iPod touch 6th Gen. My parents gifted me a space gray iPod touch for my 18th birthday, and it was my old means of listening to music when I was in boarding school and we weren't allowed any phones or laptops or any other tech — and I adored my iPod.

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