subject: What Ipod Is Really For You? [print this page] They're everywhere, domestic or abroad , 10 million have been sold and 8 million of those were in 2004.
I did not have one yet. My first taste of it came when my colleague got one, and asked if I would set it up for her using my computer. Wearing those now immediately recognizable hip cream colored headphones, I could feel the eyes of every have-not-an-iPod on me with curiosity and maybe a little jealousy. I even started walking differently. Listening to Led Zeppelin, then Radiohead, and then some Bob Marley on my way to work . There was definitely more spring in my step, and I can pay more attention to my usual job.
And why wouldn't an iPod lets you put 10,000 songs inside something the size of a pack of cigarettes. Gone are the heavy, fragile CD cases and the Discman that skips after each step.
Is the iPod changing the way that we listen to music? Undeniably. With an iPod, we can take our music anywhere, and not just one album. Now we can carry our entire collections everywhere we go. It can play mixes at parties. You can bring it on the commute to work or for a jog. You can save Microsoft Word documents on it and photos. If you don't like a particular song on an album , you can delete it. Thanks to the iPod
, music has become an even bigger part of our lives for it's just a click away.
Apart from the possibility of our entire collections ,the iPod's capabilities have done something better. By being able to store over 700 albums, the iPod is encouraging us to try types of music that we did not know before. When burning a CD to an iPod
takes a short few minutes, what's there to lose'
But is it all just a trend. doubtful, especially with people spending on average 100 pounds on iPod accessories. It's difficult to picture something people now say they can't live without vanishing, unless Apple CEO Steve Jobs finds another way to outdo himself yet again. And now Apple has come out with the smaller, cheaper version of the iPod called the iPod shuffle, which give us a big surprise and satisfy our need.
