Tech writers went bananas over the Mighty, and more 9,000 people dropped $70 or so to pre-order one.īut then. Mendelson raised a bit more than $595,000 from Kickstarter and Indiegogo 1. Mendelson envisioned it as a workout companion, a way of letting people run and hike and Soulcycle without lugging their phone around. ![]() At its most basic, Mighty is an iPod Shuffle for Spotify. So you can understand why Anthony Mendelson, a Google engineer turned winemaker, felt nervous launching the Kickstarter for Mighty last year. But when was the last time you ripped a CD, or dropped 15 bucks on an album? Even the idea of choosing 5,000 songs to carry with you and plugging something into a computer to load them seems like an ancient ritual. OK, maybe you have some Baby Driver-induced nostalgia for an iPod. Just up and drove a stake through its silicon heart as listeners traded 99-cent song downloads for $10 monthly subscriptions to all-you-can-listen services. Songs from the Apple Music catalog cannot be burned to a CD.Streaming killed the music gadget years ago.
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