I'm late to the iPod revolution. I got my lovely wife an (appropriately) apple green iPod mini for Christmas 2004. She had is for over a year until the iPod nano appeared. I got her one of those, and the mini was handed down to me.
Previous to that I had discovered podcasts. The only way for me to listen during my long commute was to burn the mp3s into a CD, which I would then play on my fortunately mp3-capable car stereos. This was pretty cumbersome, but I kept with it just because the podcast voices were like friends chatting you up on the way home after a long day of hard work.
Anyway, the CD player on my current car stopped reading mp3 CDs a couple of weeks before the mini became mine. I got myself an iTrip (my wife got a RoadTrip) and now I no longer have to burn CDs. I also no longer have to continuously shuffle my CD collection in my car, five discs at a time. The 4GB of my little green friend can only hold a fraction of my music collection (the classical stuff has to be ripped whole CDs at a time, and I can't bring myself to listen to anything below 192kbps...) along with a few podcasts, but now I understand why people take the iPod wherever they go.
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