Word: ipodding
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Dick Wolf looked skeptically at the shiny new video iPod he had given his 12-year-old son for Christmas, and prepared to watch a downloaded version of 24 for the first time. "Who's going to see anything on this screen?" shrugged the 59-year-old TV producer, whose Law & Order dramas favor gritty, realistic street scenes over high-tech gadgetry and geekspeak. But when Wolf inserted the white earbuds and started watching the 2.5-in. LCD, he had an epiphany. "The screen size became meaningless. I was in the moment. After 30 seconds, I knew it would change...
...Housewives on Apple's iTunes store as $1.99 downloads, giving viewers their first taste of (legal) Internet access to hit shows. "Every new-technology company had been courting us," recalls Disney-ABC TV president Anne Sweeney. "It's one thing to discuss possibilities, but when we saw the video iPod and iTunes store, the consumer experience was so vibrant, it convinced us that this was the right technology." Within a month, CBS and NBC made plans to offer some of their top shows as 99˘ video-on-demand selections through cable company Comcast and satcaster DirecTV, and soon Google...
...could give up that would enhance our spiritual lives, something as meaningful to us as abundant food for hungry Medieval city dwellers. As I saw the symbol of my religious holiday on my forehead, I also noted the myriad other symbols I carried around: an Oakley backpack, signature iPod headphones, a Nike swoosh on my running shoes, designer jeans and sweater, and I did not even dare look in my closet…the list would require an op-ed. Let’s not be hypocritical: one cannot stand in the Yard for over sixty seconds without seeing...
...don’t worry Dad, I root for free markets), but the expression of the undeniable fact that our society makes qualitative judgments based on material possessions. Some years ago, several teenagers committed murder to get hold of Nike Jordan sneakers, just like many have been killed in iPod-related assaults. This is not even about Professor John K. Galbraith’s argument on advertisements creating mirages of brand loyalty, but about our social motto of “you are what you own.” Food obsessions and brand deification are instances of the same materialist...
...consumers to pay for downloadable music. Apple's iTunes online music store - launched in 2003 - was easy to navigate and used a simple pricing structure: 99? per song; around $10 per album. ITunes downloads have now hit 850 million. "I will be eternally grateful for what Apple and the iPod have done," Kennedy admits. There are now 350 legal music sites online, up from 50 two years ago. Levy predicts that 25% of industry revenues will come from digital music by 2010, and many industry analysts and executives think he's right. And then, EMI and the industry just...