Single-Use Devices Like The Kindle And The iPod? They’re Doomed.

Farhad Manjoo: “I don’t mean the name won’t stick around or that people will stop buying Apple’s devices. Rather, the sun is setting on what the iPod once was – a device you bought to play digital music. Nobody knows when Apple will add Internet connectivity to the Nano, but you’d be a fool to bet against it happening in the next three years. And with that, the floodgates.”