Irish Examiner view: iPod shuffles off this mortal coil

It was outlived by countless analogue inventions, but music fans have fond memories of the sound revolution it ushered in

The iPod — as well as the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle and its other siblings — 

Fountain pens have been with us since 1827; the Qwerty keyboard came on the scene in 1874; pneumatic tyres first made life more comfortable in 1887; the ballpoint pen, hit the mass market in 1946.

All of which underlines that old-fashioned, analogue products, to which many of us are still attached, have a considerably longer shelf life than their hi-tech, digital counterparts.