“I don’t want an iPod. I need an iPod. Here’s how I feel about it: Mia Farrow’s character in Radio Days is cutting a radio ad and the director instructs her, ‘You don’t want a laxative, you crave one.’ That guy gets it exactly,” Bill Goodykoontz writes for The Arizona Republic. “If this were just me wanting a gizmo because it showed up on the cover of a recent Newsweek, that’d be one thing. But no, I’ve wanted an iPod for a couple of years now.”
“There are, to be sure, other portable music players with huge storage capacity. But Apple has always had a certain snotty cachet, the smart crowd in high school whose members got good grades and good girls without trying; PC users are the slugs who got what they got only by slogging harder. The iPod is the quickest and easiest entree into the hip gang, the invitation, finally, to the party when someone in the cooler-than-thou crowd’s parents are out of town,” Goodykoontz writes.
Full article here.
Spoken like a true wannabe.
Huh?
Everybody knows that the iPod isn’t the really holy of holys…
It’s the 12 inch PowerBook!
Ok, I have the iPod and the TiBook…now where’s this ‘cool crowd’ I’m hearing about? Where’s my invitation?
Party at Steve’s house
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Yeah, i have the 15″ alBook, and an iPod, but I’m stuck in rural New England, so all the cool toys are 4-wheelah’s, lift kits, snowmobiles, and a hearty collection of flannel jackets. The cool chicks drink coffee brandy by the barrell, waddling around after all their mullett-kids and not really caring if they keep their tooth clean.
I used to be cool back in the city, now I just hide in my basement and hope I don’t get invited to the AC/DC Bonfire party down the street.
Not kidding. Time to move. At least I have broadband:)
I’ve got an iPod, does that make me cool?
Paul, you are the exception that makes the rule. The iPod works for most people but certainly not everybody.
But I must be cool. I’ve got 4 PDA’s. Surely I must be cool. Somebody say I’m cool, please.
“Snotty” or “Snooty”?????
I resent that bullshit.. it’s always been an image fostered in the PC camp that, if anyone was crazy enough to choose ease of use and style over the clunky, sketchy, virus-ridden PC world.. they must be a snob or have some wacky priorities.
I’m a fuckin bummy student and I love my mac.
There’s my switch ad.
Nice one, mike. I almost sprayed my wife with breakfast.
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well said, mike. agree with you totally, not just because of your name.
what’s up with the PC crowd? even though iTunes, iPod, Apple is easier to use, so easy that my grandma uses it, they think it’s overpriced, artsy, or snobbish?
get over it already. it’s just electronics. if Apple makes it better, and it’s not that much more expensive – if at all, then what’s the big deal? it’s like this guy has run out of reasons to reject Apple and iPod, so he has to invent new ones. remember the articles on how iPods anti-socialize? give up already! the more they try, the worse they appear.
Paul Thurrott – you’re cool.
The only time Thurrott will be cool will be when he’s dead and his head’s been preserved cryogenically in liquid nitrogen � and even then I’d monitor the nitrogen.
or we could ship him off to siberia…
moo.
Snooty iPod owner? Hey, I resemble that remark!
Paul: iPod makes you cool, however, your Dell DJ is double uncool. Sum of two makes you uncool…
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Geeks will be geeks, boys (and to all you geeky girls out there – you are sooo sexy – and I mean that… jocks wouldn’t know a real girl if they came up and bit them.)
But, I still suspect the only way for a geek to get to the “parents out of town party” is to bring a keg and leave.
An iPod is not gonna get you in.
The Crunge, you seriously need to get out more… the country is not evil. The city sucks the life out of most people and gives them a pseudo-city identity.
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There something to be said about simplicity… that’s what makes a mac so great.
The iPod was meant to be a PDA. Want local movie showtimes on your iPod?
Check out http://homepage.mac.com/mrcurley/mindsafe
It takes showtimes for the next ten days for your zip code and puts them in your notes folder on your iPod.
Thanks, MindSafe. Might give MoviesToGo a try on my wife’s iPod mini.
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