Editing IPod (section)

== Industry impact ==
iPods often received favorable reviews; scoring high on looks, clean design, and ease of use. ''[[PC World]]'' wrote that iPod line has "altered the landscape for portable audio players".<ref name="pcworld25">{{cite magazine |author=((PC World Editors)) |date=August 3, 2007 |title=The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/id,123942-page,2/article.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070129142217/https://www.pcworld.com/article/id%2C123942-page%2C2/article.html |archive-date=January 29, 2007 |access-date=February 17, 2007 |magazine=[[PC World]]}}</ref> 

The iPod has also been credited with accelerating shifts within the [[music industry]]. The iPod's popularization of digital music storage allows users to abandon listening to entire albums and instead be able to choose specific singles which [[Album era#2000s: Decline in the digital age, shift to pop and urban|hastened]] the end of the [[album era]] in popular music.<ref name=Morey>Tejas Morey. [https://www.mensxp.com/technology/internet/8798-how-itunes-changed-the-music-industry-forever.html "How iTunes Changed The Music Industry Forever."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325042623/https://www.mensxp.com/technology/internet/8798-how-itunes-changed-the-music-industry-forever.html |date=March 25, 2021 }} ''MensXP ([[Times of India]])''. Retrieved January 5, 2014.</ref>