The iPod turns 14

14 years ago Steve Jobs announced the iPod, and this is how people reacted: https://t.co/uPimSbiC6j (via reddit) pic.twitter.com/8WuBYps6Mh

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 25, 2015

I love the idea that just possibly Steve Jobs read the post and went "hey, a glorified consumer gimmicks firm... that could just work..."

But that's not all. There's also this tweet in reply to that tweet:

@MaxCRoser Providing people with the ability to listen to music all day was one of the most socially idiotic things anyone has done.

— Dick Winchester (@DickWinchester) October 25, 2015

We already had the ability to listen to music all day before the iPod, didn't we? Unless there was some limit to how long you were allowed to have a radio switched on for, or the unspooling of a tape wasn't just a mechanical fault but a government-mandated event designed to cause a gap in music consumption.

I presume that Dick's real beef is that people listen to music with earphones - similar to one of Joe Elliott's moans. But, again, that's not exactly an invention of Apple (although you wouldn't put it past them to try and snaffle a patent on it).