At the moment everyone’s talking about the recently-announced Apple iPhone, which will have iPod functionality on it. One angle I’d like to take is that it represents just how far the iPod has become, and hints at how the iPod will become even more ubiquitous in the future. Most of the people I know now [...]
Euan Semple noted that lots of people seem to have been given iPods for Christmas. My experience certainly backs that up, with my Fiona’s sister receving an iPod nano, and Fiona’s mum getting a Sony ‘Walkman’-branded flash-memory based MP3 player. Both were delighted, but come Boxing Day, their first questions to me were asking whether [...]
My friend Claire recently commented to me that she thought Apple might be running some subtle marketing campaign, as everywhere she looked she saw people walking down the street with the iPod’s distinctive white headphones in their ears. Since then, I’ve noticed it too. The press have been keen to pick up on the iPod’s [...]