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Play it again, iPod

Apple's music player may have become a dinosaur, but it will always have a place in my heart

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I must be one of the few people left in the world who regularly listen to an iPod.
My iPod is the 160GB classic model that was released in September 2009, which makes it older than a primary school child. It has an honest-to-goodness click wheel. Unlike its sleeker successor, the iPod touch, it is a brick of a device: Larger than my palm, thicker than most poetry collections.
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