Word: ipodding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...iPhone sure isn't revolutionary. It is not an innovation in technology, just packaging. How can a company make more money? Combine more things into one product and charge more. And accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If I bought all the stuff that Apple makes for the iPod, I would be broke. I guess Jobs is a genius-a marketing genius. Jeff Simon New Haven, Connecticut...
...disagree with Lev Grossman's hesitation to call the iPhone revolutionary because "it won't create a new market or change the entertainment industry the way the iPod did." The iPod wasn't the first portable MP3 player, and iTunes wasn't the first MP3 computer jukebox program. They were simply the best. I didn't buy an MP3 player until the iPod, and I didn't use an MP3 jukebox before iTunes. Guess what? I don't own a cell phone, but as soon as I can almost afford an iPhone, I'll buy one. It isn't just...
Baby, you can drive my iPod. The 20-year trademark battle between Steve Jobs' Apple Inc. and the Beatles' Apple Corps is finally over. Analysts predict Beatles songs will be on iTunes...
...disclosure: I have two young sons, and if anything, Pollack gets my experience unsettlingly right. I live in Brooklyn, which along with the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles is the apparent epicenter of the hipster-parent movement. When one of my kids requests the Magnetic Fields on the iPod, I swell with pride as fathers of another era did when their sons completed touchdown passes. And if it's easy to criticize Pollack's preciousness, it's because, like a good, self-aware Gen Xer, he does it for you. "I wonder," he writes, "what Ariel Dorfman, Primo Levi...
...Life used to be tough, you muse while gazing affectionately at your new best friend and faithful tagalong: the iPhone. A chic mobile, a widescreen mp3 player, a two-megapixel camera and an Internet browser all in one, the $500 iPhone is just slightly larger than a current-generation iPod. Even more than the BlackBerrys popping up throughout the Yard, it can satisfy any Harvard student’s technological needs. Finally, the hours you devote to e-mail, Facebook.com, Google, YouTube, phone convos, text messaging, drunken party photos, and the sonorous beat of “SexyBack?...