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Yes, the device that helped launch Apple to the top of the consumer market — and changed the entire music industry to boot — may be on its way out. Sure, Apple isn’t likely to stop selling iPods altogether any time soon, but the device’s usefulness is waning in the wake of music streaming services and smartphones becoming the dominant music-listening platform. But the current iPod touch is aging, and unless Apple does something drastic, the device’s influence in the tech world will fade entirely.