IPods or CD players?

I grew up in the nineties listening to compact disks. Everywhere you went you would see people with big bulky music players. We all thought it was cool, and it was back then. Then the ipod hit like a marketing bomb. Everyone wanted this sleek new gadget. Slowly at first and gradually speeding up was the decline of compact discs. It quickly went from cool to very uncool to be seen with any music player that wasn’t an ipod. I didn’t give into the trend until years later, nut now I wouldn’t leave home without the device that single-handedly cornered the market on music devises.
When I was growing up I had one of those very bulky CD players that were so unwieldy to carry. Compounded with this was the fact that you had to carry multiple CD’s around. The original compact disc players were mostly grey in color with a tiny display screen and oversized buttons. Many of the functions of the player were too confusing to be used efficiently and if the player was shifted ever so slightly the disc would skip and really perturb you. Many of the people that you would see with a CD player were teenagers or young adults that fell in love with the grunge era of music.
The original ipod was introduced around the turn of the century. They allowed you to store all of your music in one place. They were smaller than a CD player, but they were very far from the ipod I have now. They were about an inch thick, all white, with a touch wheel that was used to navigate the programs. These devices were by no means perfect, many would refuse to work for no other reason than the sun was shining and it was a Thursday. The newer editions that have been released have fixed many of these bugs in the system that irked many music lovers. I have fallen hard for the shiny, sleek, touch screen ipod that I own and would not want to go on without it as I’m sure many others of my generation would not want to do. The people who use ipods vary much more than CD users; school kids to CEOs, farmers to lawyers, the list goes on and on.
I believe that the ipod is much better than the compact disc player because of its functions and design. The ipod allowed music lovers to store their entire music collection in one convenient place. They pioneered touch technology which has led to many electronic devices incorporating this technology. The ipod is the greatest technological advancement in music devices of our time.