“It all started just a few years ago, with the original model back in 2001. Then came the popular, colorful mini version, which was soon followed by the high-tech photo edition. And most recently introduced was the slim, compact, and inexpensive shuffle. Thus began the I-pod revolution,” Paige Hazzan writes for The Buffalo News. “Since it first came out, the Apple I-pod has launched a new generation of how Americans, along with millions of others around the world, listen to music. Who knew that such a small mp3-playing device could turn into something so huge and help put Macintosh, a company that was constantly being overshadowed by Microsoft products, back on the map as a leading competitor in the business?”
Hazzan writes, “References to this tiny gadget are turning up everywhere in the entertainment industry, from characters in movies who are casually seen listening to them all the way to high fashion models in designer Dooney and Bourke’s 2005 spring catalog toting around the hot item in their ads. New car models from brands like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Nissan even offer special audio integration systems so the I-pod can be easily hooked up to the vehicle’s stereo and sound outlets.”
“The I-pod’s trademark little white headphones appropriately named “earbuds” are often seen worn by teenagers roaming down school hallways, or if they are banned during school hours, quickly donned as students exit the building at the end of the day,” Hazzan writes. “So why all the fuss? What’s the big deal? Sure, the I-pod’s original appeal is obvious: who wouldn’t want a device that can play and store all of your favorite music without you having to lug around hundreds of CDs? Nevertheless, the question remains: How has the I-pod continued to stay on top throughout these past four years despite many new competitors? Moreover, how has it grown into such a huge teenage phenomenon that it has become a status symbol for the young generation?”
Hazzan, who will be a sophomore at Nardin Academy High School this fall, talks to her teenage girlfriends about Apple’s tiny moneymakers, “Almost all the girls interviewed use I-tunes, the companion computer program to the I-pod that helps to organize music into play lists as well as download new songs for 99 cents each… while not everyone is obsessed, it is clear that those teens who have I-pods really love them, and for that reason alone these high-tech music players are going to stay popular for a long time to come.”
Full article here.
Note to T-he B-uffalo N-ews, it’s “iPod” and “iTunes.” Almost everybody can finally manage to get it right in print and online by now. Why not give it a try, too? It makes the article more difficult to read with all of those daft “I-pods” and “I-tunes” references.
Hazzan, who will be a sophomore at Nardin Academy High School this fall, offers a new perspective that makes this article interesting because it shows a glimpse of what’s really going on. It’s much different than the usual routine of reading what some fifty-something Wall Street analysts think as they try to figure out why Apple’s iPod+iTunes is such a hit with teens.
War for oil? If this was a war for oil we wouldn’t be paying $3 per gallon. If all we wanted was oil we could have taken over Venezuela with a lot less effort.
can SOMEONE PLEASE tell the power to be how this is MAC Daily News…if i want to read about the ipod I would read IPOD DAILY NEWS…can we get back to Mac Daily News PLEASE…..
It dosn’t matter who the politician is they are all crooked and all have shady dealings… Just because of some lame one-sided movie everyone thinks they are an expert on politics!!
Lame Fools..
Note to MacDaddy: You haven’t been paying attention. Saddam kept all the other terrorists out of Iraq. That was his turf. We knew that before the war. As soon as we kicked him out all the other rats scurried across the border. So as a result of Bush’s little war, yes, Iraq is now a hotbed of terrorism.
Note to Sid and Bush: Islam is anything but a peaceful religion.
Note to all who would flame me about the Crusades or Israel’s warring nature: Of course the same can be said about Christianity and Judaism.
Note to Hazzan: The company is “Apple Computer,” not “Macintosh.”
Note to everyone else: Have a nice day!
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Talking of Venezuela, I caught a report of this little nugget from the Spanish press the other day. Let’s just say their take was a little more damning than the US press have been.
Going after another region’s oil is NEVER about bringing the price down. It’s simply about . . . well, having more oil to sell and making more money.
“War for oil? If this was a war for oil we wouldn’t be paying $3 per gallon. If all we wanted was oil we could have taken over Venezuela with a lot less effort.”
Well, what do you expect from such a dim-bulb such as Bush?
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you do realize writes: “if Bush had acted intelligently.”
I wonder if Bin Laden has an iPod yet?
Why don’t you all go back to talking about Macs or iPods or bashing M$. You certainly know more about those subjects than you do about foreign policy and the economy. Oh, and Sid, what are you in sixth grade with that response about Markus’s mother?
“So far bombings have been reduced substancially [sic]”
Try telling that to the people of London…
You liberal Bush-hating tools are all alike. So fsckin predictable.
Please, please tell us how the “terrorists are now mad at us because we went into Iraq”. Come on, please, I really wanna hear it! Dipshits. As if the “terrorists” needed us going into Iraq in order to hate us(!). Gimme a fsckin’ break.
They hate us no matter what. That’s why they’re called TERRORISTS! T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T-S!!! They hate our way of life. They hate our style of dress. They hate our capitalist economy. They hate our wealth. They hate our standard of living. They hate our influence. They hate our uppity womenfolk. They hate our system of government. They hate too much flesh being exposed. They hate it alllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!
But they especially hate our freedom. Our F-R-E-E-D-O-M!!!!!!!!!!!
Going into Iraq and forcing Hussein and his scumbag cronies into submission was spelled out in the U.N. mandate. Bush’s only mistake was that his administration cherry-picked the WMD issue as the cause celeb. He should’ve put even MORE emphasis on the fact that the pusillanimous, ineffectual, bankrupt, corrupt U.N. wouldn’t act — EVEN THOUGH THEY PASSED A RESOLUTION COMPELLING THEM TO!!!!
[Belushi] But nooooooooooooo!!!!!!! [/Belushi]. The U.N was making far too much MONEY from the oil-for-food scandal and from shady dealings with the Hussein “government” to want to act. And who in the hell gives a shit about the fscking terrorists and what they think??? They’re going to hate us NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!
Pull your heads out of your asses. Sid, you assclown, there’s nothing wrong with thinking of the “calssic [sic] selfish American who thinks of the good ol’ U S of A before anything else”. Nothing wrong with it, that is . . . are you ready . . . ’cause here it comes . . . nothing wrong with it IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!!!!! It is, in fact, our governments mandate. It’s ANY governments mandate, loser!
Tell me, if you dare, from what country you hail. I’ll bet it’s one that — if the United States suddenly adopted a policy of retrenchment tomorrow — would be shit-scared that they’d no longer enjoy the protection of our strategic might. It’s funny, I mean — I don’t hear the recently-liberated eastern European nations chewing out the “good ol’ U S of A”‘s ass. Hmmmm. I wonder why that is? Let’s see — could it probably have something to do with our role in helping them get to where they are today? As in, no longer under the thumb of communist oppression? Could they see Americans for what they really are — just people who want to live their lives like everyone else (except the TERRORISTS) — and not send billions of our dollars to all of you pukes who live under the security of our nuclear umbrella just so you can criticize every move we make???????
You Bush-bashers are blind fools. Criticize a man for doing a tough job and making the tough decisions — decisions which are USUALLY unpopular in their own time. You hate the man so much you let it cloud your view of the world. Try handing a “peace flower” to a terrorist when you get the chance. Let me know what happens. Assclowns.
My biggest regret of the last sevral years? Because we routed the “misunderstood Taliban” so quickly, I had no opportunity to book my vacation to Lake Afghanistan.
Pat Robertson seems to be a nazi.
Petrol will top at $100 at the end of 2005.
Muslim terrorists come from Saudi Arabia which is friend of G Bush.
People of USA will have to learn Spanish because Spanish will be the first spoken language in the US in middle of XXIth century.
i don’t understand why this tread denegrated to name calling and politics. the news story is about a highschooler explaining why the ipod is such a hit with her peer group. hello, people. this is neither lame or has any thing to do with the war in iraq. it has everything to do with what apple does best: capturing a market. i grew up using apple iie’s in school, it’s what made me into an apple user today. this highschooler should be congratulated for writing a analytical piece for what’s probably the only newspaper in her city. it’s really a shame to see adult (presuming most poster on this tread are adults) focus on their own selfish opinion about liberalism and a war. i hope you’re not like this with your own kids, and their interest and pursuits.
T.B.W.
Blah, blah, blah.
To all of you in the Blue States, come and claim refugee status in Canada, and wait for the T.B.W.’s to have an aneurysm. The U.S. represents 5% of the world’s population, “consider” that!
MW= consider
T.B.W.
I could argue all day with you, and I would win, because it is YOU who is blind to the truth.
Get out more, visit the library, read some books and open your mind. Americans believe the world revolves around them, your bullshit media feed you propaganda and you all soak it up like Kool-Aid.
I’m from England, a country that I am afraid to say is far too close to yours. We need to break away from your idiotic Country and start to stand up to little George and his War Buddies.