Portable music ____. If you change ‘players’ to ‘devices’. Transistor radios [1] had equal or greater cultural impact, as the _transistor_ is literally a techn

Portable music ____. If you change ‘players’ to ‘devices’. Transistor radios [1] had equal or greater cultural impact, as the _transistor_ is literally a technology leap forward—portable electronics. I grew up in the age of the Walkman. What do you put in your Walkman? You made one of those great mix tapes. Radio was great. You could buy an album on tape and with a dual-drive boom box you could mix a tape (wow. mix tapes from radio were a cherished possession). You see. The Walkman did not succeed on its own. You could listen to radio on a Walkman, but that’s 20+ year old tech. Not the revolution. That’s an in the weeds argument. But the iPhone? Not as a music player. Not as a phone. Not by any one feature alone was a ‘game changer’. Funny note. My Nokia N900 had a radio tuner! Not that I could ever get it to pick anything up. That’s where Apple shines, by creating forward-looking products which break from the past. [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+transistor+radio https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+transistor+radio