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> automagical syncing on smartphones What about the automagical syncing on ipods?

• ghaff 4y ago
  The only iPod I ever owned I had to plug in to sync. Cellular (and to a lesser degree WiFi) connectivity was a game changer for topical mobile content. The lack of same made things like the Palm Pilot far less useful than they would have otherwise been. For music, it didn't matter so much because people were mostly fine with having some 10s of GB of MP3s that they just updated from time to time.
  • kgwgk 4y ago
    You had to plug in to charge so at least for people working regularly with a computer there was zero additional effort required.
    • ghaff 4y ago
      I traveled a lot and didn't necessarily charge daily on my primary computer. I can't say I really remember all the details--and there may well have been factors beyond easy syncing--but I didn't regularly listen to podcasts until I got an iPhone around 2010.