It is also interesting how the accompanying picture tries to show how current mobile music listening experience is so complicated. I don't think it is. I just have wireless headphones (good ones) and my cell phone (that I would carry around anyway). No mess, no extra device to carry around and mess with.
But of course there might be something in pressing the buttons, feeling different and special.
I thought the pic was impressioning the old way. And obviously not literally and probably not only. Ie it may be also just about "stuff" or getting cought up in caring about physical things. And/or about complication. The new way certainly has as much or even more complication.
But of course there might be something in pressing the buttons, feeling different and special.