2. The Fiddly Headphones
And look at the headphones that come with it! My Walkman has a good pair of fat, spongy Sennheisers that encircle my head and direct the music into my ears. These things? Look at the size of them! Earbuds, they call them. To use them you have to insert them right inside your ear. Surely that can't be good. I used to have something like this on my old transistor radio when I was a boy; I thought technology had advanced beyond this. And how are they supposed to stay in your ears? Not only that, but the sound out of such tiny little things surely can't compare to a full set of headphones. And how much of that sound is going to leak out around inputs that aren't fully enclosing your ear? Surely these will become --- should they somehow, against all odds, end up being popular --- the scourge of the tube and the bus! Who wants to hear anyone else's music?