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I don't think the vinyl analogy holds up here, because even though I don't use vinyl, I recognize it's a very different way to experience music. Vinyls you have to physically go out and buy, physically retrieve, physically place into your player, and then listen to in one static location. The iPod, meanwhile, is damn-near the same thing: you have 1) a portable electronic device 2) of a similar size and form factor 3) holding the mathematically exact same digital recordings of songs 4) which you listen back to through nearly the same medium (same speakers; different DAC) and 5) can see displayed on a screen. Navigating through the music is very slightly, near-meaninglessly different. As noted: the ClickWheel(TM). Nevertheless, even under the premise that it's highly analogous to vinyl, this would be like if you had a comparison of vinyl versus digital audio and spent half of it ranting about streaming services while basically ignoring local digital playback. That'd be fine if you set out with "vinyl versus streaming", but you started on the premise "vinyl versus digital". "Here's my comparison of CRTs and OLEDs. But first, a rant about Netflix."