Still crazy after all these years
By glazou on Friday 17 September 2004, 18:07 - Computing - Permalink
I am back in 1983. I am still a teenager, and I love my iPod. Some other (real) teenagers look at me with dark eyes when they see the white earphones. And I like to see their dark eyes; yes you chose the tiny cellphone, I have the iPod! I feel I could even kiss their pretty girlfriends just to make them upset a bit more. The music invades me, I am invincible.
I now understand why iPod owners are so crazy about it, why they think other MP3 players are pure crap, why they can't travel without it. It does not look like a toy, it's not low quality plastic, the UI is amazing and so simple my friends could understand it in less than a minute. Who needs a User's manual with such a product quality. iPod is to MP3 players what MacWrite was to WordProcessors. So simple you wonder how you did before. Despite of the Majors that keep telling us that digital music and the piracy around it kills music, I think that I found the first real incentive in ten years to buy new CDs or online music. We already knew what letting the Flim and/or Music industry design a format is the best way to kill the format, design a security scheme is the best way to make films and music copyable. I know now that Music industry does not even understand its own market. They are lightyears from the customers.
I love my iPod. Contaminated, yes
Go Apple, go!

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Talking about music and copyrights, R. Stallman was in Oslo and I went to listen to him twice this week.
It's nice to hear people with such dedication for good causes.
He was at JavaZone 2004 on Wednesday, and yesterday at a local Unix User Group were he made a talk on copyrights and community. I will make a summary of the most important points next week and try to get (a pointer to) a digital version of the video made during this talk. Feel free to visit my blog or send me an email if you want to get notified when I manage to get all these documents together.
Pas mal de lecteurs sont tres moyens niveau UI, mais il n'est pas sur que l'iPod soit le mieux. Niveau qualite sonore, pareil. Maintenant, l'argument principal pro-iPod c'est "faire raler le voisin qui n'a pas d'iPod".
J'ai prefere la qualite musicale, et prefere mon oreillette transparente au casque blanc de l'iPod
The only thing I needed to look in the manual for was how to turn it "off" right now - hold the play/pause button for a few seconds.
I totally agree with you, Daniel. I've had my iPod Mini (green) for a week now and it's utterly awesome.
I like my iRiver H140 :P
Maybe the body doesn't look as sleek as the iPod's, but the remote is way cool! I have never seen an iPod with a remote... if it's really as bad as what it looks like on the apple website, I can understand why ^^
Are you sure you want to expend all that love on a product/brand?
If MS designed a cool product (eventually they will, won't they?) then would you love them too?
I'm not anti-brand. I don't agree with much of what Naomi Klein wrote in her book (can't remember the name). But a good product is still just a good product.
Tom> Naomi Klein's book you're talking about is certainly "No Logo"
Daniel> I agree with you, although I have no iPod. Since I bougth my Archos mp3 player with a radio / remote control, my way of listening to music has changed in good. I even discover some of my old albums that I had no time to listen to anymore, and as soon as I buy a new album I rip it to put it on the mp3 player and take everywhere with me (well I don't have my whole records collection on the Archos because it's more than 1000 CDs and it does not fit on the 20 Gb hard drive, even ripped with a low rate, lol). When I won't be able to rip my new CDs, well I won't buy new CDs anymore... you know, I'm not that much at home with a CD player available, people from EMI and BMG...
Ca fait un peu bobo de se plaindre des retraites pour aller ensuite s'acheter un gadget de luxe chez Apple, je trouve. Enfin, moi je dis ca..
Adolphos: je trouve ton commentaire non seulement déplacé mais également assez ridicule au vu ce que je paye (ou plutôt ai payé) mensuellement en cotisations pour la retraite des autres et dont je risque de ne pouvoir jamais profiter vraiment...
Eh hem.
Apple's iPod is by far the world's most innovative personal media player.
And heck, it's simply amazing. Why would anyone want anything else?