Let's pause a moment to remember the popular iPod mini. It burst on the scene last January, with bright colors and a stylish new look. The mini was young, slim, and exciting, and it soon became more popular than its plain white sibling.

What goes around comes around, I guess. In spite of the iPod mini's popularity, Apple has dropped it in favor of the new iPod nano -- a replacement that's even younger and slimmer. (How can you compete with "impossibly small"?)

There's a lesson here. It's probably a lesson about drinking less coffee and editing bad analogies out of your posts before you hit the "Publish" button, but it's a lesson nonetheless.

As Apple bids farewell to the popular mini, Engadget has this reminder of all the hard-working iPods that helped prepare the way for the ungrateful iPod nano:
The iPod Family Cemetery