Wrong.
An iPod is a playback/recording/storage medium.
You are making the wrong comparos here.
Huh?
Sure, it's not really cost effective to cut your own records. However, both tapes and CD's are inexpensive playback/recording/storage medium.
I was making the point the iPod is hardware, software and storage "all in one" - very different from a turntable, cd player or cassette deck. Not a deep thought.
Not really.
An iPod, like a walkman, is pretty much just a playback device. With an iPod, a hard drive holds the music, just like cassette tape holds the music in a walkman. What has changed is the amount of music that you can carry with you. With a package 1/3 the size of a walkman, you have at least 1000 times the storage space of a cassette tape.
I give up.