“You can’t roll a joint on an iPod,” the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told the New York Times Magazine early last year. And, OK, I suppose that’s among the iPod’s drawbacks. But it’s hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades that’s brought more pleasure to more people. Should anyone care that in the process, the iPod has all but killed the music industry as we’ve known it?

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