Why do people buy iPODS? Why do so many people spend several hundred dollars on a tiny box that is designed, simply, to encourage you to spend lots more money?
It's not that I'm against clever little gadgets, mind you. I love clever gadgets large and small, to the extent that our house has so many gadgets that an iPOD is just about the only gadget we don't have.
I can see the benefit of downloading music from the internet. If I could be bothered I'd do it on my PC and listen to it there, or "burn" a disc.
I don't want to work, or walk down the street with little plugs in ears (my heading aids actually make that impossible), and so I'm happy with the home radio and car radio I already own.
In truth, I'm sorry for people who buy these mini music players. Not only do they have to buy or otherwise download music, but they have to keep spending.
This particular burst of passion was inspired by a department store brochure inserted in this mornings paper. They were offering as Mum's day gifts, iPODs at up to $380, plus nearly two pages of iPOD accessories. F'rinstance: Four kinds of iPOD docks (to add decent speakers and things like clocks and radios), power packs so you can plug your pod in, pod-holding arm bands for joggers, hi-fi earphones to replace the standard issue, plus a number of items whose purpose I couldn't understand.
Message to my family : My birthday's coming up, I know - Chocolate would be nice.
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Yes Michael - Chocolate WOULD be nice - but remember your sugar levels! Oh what does it matter? You have to enjoy yourself sometime, so eat the chocolates and walk it off at a later stage!
As for iPods - I am still trying to understand them. I enjoy the radio in the car, or a nice cd (note the word 'nice') and wonder if the young will all end up deaf at an early age from those contraptions stuck in their ears blasting out loud and awful stuff they call music. Think I must be getting old too!
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