Music accompanies everyone through life, all over the world, always, forever.
Music opens up the largest imaginable target group.
That's what Steve Jobs said when he introduced the first iPod 20 years ago.
But these days, the iPod is history and relegated to remaining stock.
The sad thing is that with it, a certain mode of listening to music is lost.
Because the first iPod didn't have its own speaker, just like the first Walkman or the last Discman.
The music only went into one's own ears, or at most into those of one's best friend with ear studs.
In the meantime, and thus back to Job's words, music still accompanies us through life, but in a different way: there is no longer any escape, i.e. from the music of others.
In summer, a walk along the banks of the Main turns into an acoustic gauntlet.
Every few meters there is a new Bluetooth speaker, every few meters a different track blares.
Autotune Around The Clock.
It's unbearable.
When did people stop being able to endure their usual background noise?
If you want to celebrate a bit outside to the music, you'll be understood at this point, go ahead!
But most of them don't even listen to what they're pushing into everyone else's ears.
Didn't we agree that irrelevant background music is only allowed in elevators?
But now even the forest hike seems without the best of the eighties,
Unfortunately, the fact that the playback quality of the handy speakers has become so good doesn't make things any better.
Technical progress does not regulate everything.