We review the predecessors of the iPod in crossover

Marty McFly appears on stage with an anti -the -active suit. The goal, terrorizing his father in the past. He puts some headphones, puts a Van Halen tape on his Walkman, and puts it at full volume. That mythical scene of ‘Return to the future‘I had that technological product as a singular cast actor, and what if it deserved it.

And it is that the Walkman was defining a whole generation of users who had never been able to hear their music easily when they went down the street. To be able to hear the songs that you liked the most? That was miraculous. Sony revolutionized the world with Walkman, but that product was only the beginning of a paradigm shift in the world of music.

Then the Discman would arrive, and with the massive adoption of MP3 we discovered that music in digital format offered even more comforts. There, the first MP3 players based on flash memories, Discman MP3 and something after the first MP3 players based on small hard drives.

Until Apple raised its first disruption with the iPod, of course. That product did nothing especially different, but it did better and in a spectacular design. Then the smartphones and the iPhone would arrive, and the iPod became irrelevant. In that review we escaped other great products such as the Minidisc, but we did not want the list to become too long and we prefer to review the ones we consider more relevant.

In any case everyone had their own magic, and In the fourth crossover episodein which Xataka collaborates with range caps, we do A review of all those devices. And by the way we order them from better to worse because we love to order things from better to worse, although you already know, each one has their own ranking and that is the fun of these of these Tier Lists of crossover.

The episode, as always, It covers much more. The polarizing section ‘A Popular Opinion’ is released, there is an interview with an expert from the world of formula 1 and the formula-e, and to the review of the most important news of the week is added the cherry cherry: a look at the scrambled Lamborghini and Urus se. Enjoy Crossover!

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