“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.
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