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Was this the sickest iPod?

The iPod Mini didn’t last forever – but it got almost everything right.

I wanted the most storage possible for the flourishing music collection that I’d amassed through years of painfully slow downloads over Napster, LimeWire, and Usenet groups. But the company was eager to carve out a much bigger portion of the pie, and doing so meant taking on significantly cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Rio, Dell, iRiver, Creative, and other brands — all of which are faint memories today. The Mini ran the same software as Apple’s flagship player and offered full compatibility with a massive spread of accessories that worked with its 30-pin dock connector.

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