“Unarguably, the iPod is the most life-altering gadget to arrive in my 37 years on the planet. For people who cherish song, who find it impossible to live without, and need to exercise their musical freewill at the swing of a mood, the iconic, milky white music player has improved life and listening immeasurably,” Shawna Richer writes for The Globe and Mail.
“As the seductive Apple ads promise, iPod puts 10,000 songs in your pocket. But it’s more than an unstoppable machine. It is your personal soundtrack,” Richer writes. “It’s arranged the way you want it — alphabetically by artist or song or in playlists of your own design.”
Richer writes, “My job as The Globe’s Atlantic Canada correspondent demands monotonous car trips to all four corners of all four provinces where the scenery blends trees and Irving stations for hours on end. And the iPod car adapter feels like a gift from God.”
Full article here.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a huge apple fan, 3 powerbooks now, 23 “Cinema, 2 iPods etc……..But it not sound like this writer needs to find herself a boyfriend?
’38 years old and never kissed a boy?!?!”
I’ve bought 4 iPods for kids & self & love them all. But my cel phone is “the most life-altering gadget” of my 52 years
the cell phone? i look at it as a necessary evil… but life altering? no way. the ipod is life altering.
Small things alter small lives …
If listening to an iPod is the highlight of you life Shawna my suggestion is you need to get out more and getting out of Toronto would be a good start, go west young woman, BC beckons.
A cell phone is life altering…intrusions anywhere and everywhere. Unfortunately it is a necessary evil, but evil it is.
I’m right there with you.
I totally agree.
Benn.. you just made that up..
the punch-line is..
Simple minds are easily amused..
My life was altered by birth control, the Internet, the Cell Phone, artificial intelligence, the birth of modern terrorism (Thank you Yasser Arafat), and those bugs over there to the right in that stupid ad.
dzir:
“the cell phone? i look at it as a necessary evil… but life altering? no way. the ipod is life altering.”
The iPod may be life altering to you, but the cell phone has transformed society in far more profound ways. The fact that you call it a “necessary evil” is telling.
Benn:
“Small things alter small lives …”
What an inane comment. Tell that to someone with a pacemaker.
Frank:
“A cell phone is life altering…intrusions anywhere and everywhere. Unfortunately it is a necessary evil, but evil it is.”
*sigh*
Cell phones are not evil, they save peoples lives. People may sometimes be rude in their use of it, but so are they often when they go through a door, as they let it slam in your face instead of holding it open. Are you going to say that doors are evil?
For good or bad, the computer is a far more life altering device. And, without it you wouldn’t have gadgets like the iPod.
I also agree that a cell phone is a vastly superior invention.
ipod, cellphone…nah…it is tv remote control that is the biggest life changer.
imagine if you did not have one.
no channel surfing…unless you sit within arm�s length of the tv so you could manually change channels.
And if you don�t believe me, lose your tv remote control and see how your life changes….
Couch Potato
“And if you don�t believe me, lose your tv remote control and see how your life changes….”
lol… actually I don’t watch a whole bunch of TV so it wouldn’t effect me so badly, but I imagine it’d really hurt some people. Also, some TV’s don’t fully function without the remote. That is funny though.
twilightmoon,
thank you, I love smart people.
YOU LIKE THAT?
He should try a Mac sometime.
My origional Mac 128 altered my life. My external 20 mb hard drive that I got a year later was a close second. I said goodby to floppies in 1985. Talk about life altering.
I’ve had two iPods so far and am on my third, a 40gig 4th gen right now. Freakin love em. To not have to carry around every cd with me everywhere I go…priceless.
AI.. wow.. 1985?!?! wtf?
Couchpotato.. the thing is.. there’s no way the Remote Control wouldn’t have been invented.. it’s just crazy to think that TV would have been mainstream for more than 10 years without something being invented to change the channel.. from a distance.. i mean.. even if it had a cord, a remote would essentially do the same thing..
The thing about the iPod is that.. it doesn’t make music listening EASIER.. it alters what music listening is.. and how people use their music..
Getting people to put all this music, thousands and thousands of songs on their computers is a huge win (Ironic that the illegal p2p guys benefit from things like iTunes ripping.. ne way.. i digress) considering before HD music players (the Creative player was not going to make it popular.. the iPod did..) you never listened to old cd’s.. now you can be on the skytrain and you’ll hear a song you totally forgot you had.. and it just trips you right out.. or you hear a song from the 80’s that makes you think of your college years and it just trips you out..
you get the point.. going from a discman to an ipod is a tectonic shift in how people experience music…
ps. playlists playlists playlists…
the cell phone.. eh, it’s okay.. it’s just that, it doesn’t have the same emotional attachment as the ipod.. i know girls go gaga over their phones.. but really, it’s a tool… the ipod is ..erm.. pleasure node.. lol
I have heard people say that using a Mac is more a lifestyle choice than just a choice in computers. So as far as brands go I would have to say that choosing Apple is the most life altering. That would seem to go along with what this woman is saying.
Shawna Richer “screams for iPod” — sigh. What a waste!
For anyone who thinks the iPod isn’t cooler than a cell phone doesn’t live in reality. It DOES improve your lifestyle. You don’t have to be a geeky shut-in to believe this. You just have to get real. Maybe those popular and trendsetting iPod DJ’s at clubs should replace the iPods with cell phones? Get real. The iPod IS much more life-changing than a phone w/o a cord.
Once someone goes iPod, they won’t know how they got by without it guaranteed. I cannot even fathom using a portable CD player nowadays.
Finally, show me a cell phone that has as many positive reviews as the iPod. Just one please
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Teflon, the iPod IS a computer, with it’s own OS and media.
Colthere you said a cell phone is just a phone without a cord. But, by that reasoning the iPod is just an improved portable radio.
100s of millions of people have cell phones. The iPod is great, but not in that league.
Give Colthere a break; his brain has yet to reach full maturity.
When my son made the winning shot in his basketball game, he called me, even though I was thousands of miles away.
When I need to clarify some last minute details about a business deal, I use my cell phone, not my iPod.
When my wife had a bad fall off her mountain bike, she called for help. The iPod soothed her while she waited for the ambulance to arrive. Wow! Way cool dude. It was a life altering experience, man.
Teflon
“100s of millions of people have cell phones. The iPod is great, but not in that league.”
One thing the iPod does have over the cell phone, better battery life, and it doesn’t have a signal that keeps %#$I#$*&#@ crapping out on you…. ::: grumble :::
…and Colthere, lay off the crack pipe man, “much more life-changing than a phone w/o a cord” indeed.
::: rolls eyes :::