I have an iPod − 15 March, 2007
I got my Dandelife red iPod nano yesterday, my first. It took a while to get all of the iTunes sorted out and synchronized, but I now have ear buds in, volume cranked and basketball on (the music is better than the color commentary).
I worry about Apple's business model, of course. The intentional obsolescence of devices isn't a sustainable practice, even if is makes for sustainable revenue. However, I also really missed my music. I enjoy having my life soundtracked again.
Music and I have struggled to have a relationship at all. My family invested in 8-Track tapes, so I was off to a bad start as a kid. In getting my first cassette player, I confirmed Santa was a phony. Hurt by Debbie Boone's rise to the top of the charts in 1977, I swore off pop radio for a while, instead falling to sleep with a stack of records my parents gave me (including Barry Manilow and the Hooked On ... series). And since the 8-Track experience soured me on new tech for a while, I didn't pick up a CD player until the mid-1990s. As a result a lot of my music is trapped in cassette form on shelves deep in the bowels of the house. That's the music I really want to listen to right now. That's my soundtrack. (Hmmm, I wonder if the old Panasonic has blue tooth?)
I've had the iPod running more than not for the past 30 hours. With wife and kids away for the week in Florida, there isn't much conversation going on in the house anyway. When classes resume and family evenings return, the buds come out.
BlogSchmog
I worry about Apple's business model, of course. The intentional obsolescence of devices isn't a sustainable practice, even if is makes for sustainable revenue. However, I also really missed my music. I enjoy having my life soundtracked again.
Music and I have struggled to have a relationship at all. My family invested in 8-Track tapes, so I was off to a bad start as a kid. In getting my first cassette player, I confirmed Santa was a phony. Hurt by Debbie Boone's rise to the top of the charts in 1977, I swore off pop radio for a while, instead falling to sleep with a stack of records my parents gave me (including Barry Manilow and the Hooked On ... series). And since the 8-Track experience soured me on new tech for a while, I didn't pick up a CD player until the mid-1990s. As a result a lot of my music is trapped in cassette form on shelves deep in the bowels of the house. That's the music I really want to listen to right now. That's my soundtrack. (Hmmm, I wonder if the old Panasonic has blue tooth?)
I've had the iPod running more than not for the past 30 hours. With wife and kids away for the week in Florida, there isn't much conversation going on in the house anyway. When classes resume and family evenings return, the buds come out.
BlogSchmog
Comments:
pepero (March 16, 2007. 12:17am)
just wait till you get *hooked* on podcasts. ;-)
edunn (March 19, 2007. 08:00pm)
Congrats on the iPod! You deserve it :-)