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iPods are taking over New York. Everyone has one, not just rich hippies. Everyone’s bobbing their head and has white earbuds stuck in their ears. And why not? iPods are fashionable, trendy and in spite of stories of poor battery life, Apple has a huge percentage of the portable digital audio player market. The white wires and the white iPod means white is the new black I guess.
I began to succumb to that “everybody else’s got one” mentality and decided to look at getting one for myself. iPods are expensive, but the idea of stuffing Johnny Cash, Starflyer 59, the Ramones, Ozzy Osbourne, Joy Electric, George Gershwin, Percy Grainger, the Beatles, CCR, Neil Diamond, Doc Watson, The Echoing Green, the Stones, Tom Petty, Radiohead, Arlo Guthrie, Frank Sinatra, Robert Johnson and all the rest of them into a little white box the size of a deck of cards is just plain hilarious.
Apple released their new iPod shuffle a little while ago to grab those few percentage points like me that are still holding out. 99 bucks for 512 megabytes isn’t that bad. And it’s a slick design too. The only other 512mb $99 player is the SanDisk one. I’m not too thrilled with that design. I’m still up in the air about getting one. Not having a job, that’s 99 bucks I can’t spend on ice cream if I do.
Some of the new friends I’ve met here in the city are total Mac fanatics. I’m happy to say I’m not one. But if Apple called the iPod Shuffle the “iPod Granny Smith.” I’d probably buy it just because of the name.