"look at me, I've got an iPOD"
"look at me, I've got an iPOD MINI"
"look at me, I've got an iPOD Shuffle!"
"look at me, I've got an iPOD Nano!!!!!"
God, it pisses me off. Our society has turned into a bunch of people off in their own god damned fantasy world. Why actually look people in the eye and say 'hi' or strike casual conversation with someone on the train when you can just lower your eyes to the ground and listen to Coldplay. It's especially disturbing when you see teenagers wearing them in the mall, or some other place where they should be talking to friends or something.
What I really want to know is, who really...
1. has time to listen to their iPOD more than a half hour a day?
2. has time to download/rip songs off cd's on a consistant basis?
3. has hundreds of dollars to spend on an item that they hardly use?
4. needs to constantly be listening to music and avoiding interaction with others?
5. can afford this shit?!!?
Me, baby. Me! Of course, I don't own one but would do all of the above if I did.
ReplyDeleteI remember when IPOD came out and I had (and still have) an mp3 player that played mp3s (which is all the ipod does), has a built in radio, mic, and pretty much does the fucking dishes too all for about $300 less than the original ipod.
ReplyDeleteThe point is this- good marketing and the economic bandwagon effect will make flocks of humans look like idiots as they run out to purchase something that can barely wipe its own ass but is popular.
UHS should operate this way in order for its directors/officers i.e. us to be able to purchase yachts and crash em into steve jobs yacht.
I concur. I saw someone on the el who had the new nano last week. Mostly because she was tacitly flaunting it all over the place. I was thinking about how the damn thing had been out for 2 days and about what a pretentious biyotch she must be.
ReplyDeletePlus, you have to spend a lot of time DL'ing th music and then transferring it into the device.
Another reason I don't have one also is because the first song I would put on there would be REAL AMERICAN and I'd be stuck out in public, Hulking Up.
I just found out the other day what the iPOD Shuffle is, and it pissed me off. It's literally just a crippled version of a regular iPOD which purposely does not have a LCD screen. From what I understand, the criminally idiotic justification for the existence of this product is that, "you never know what song you'll get".
ReplyDeleteUhhh, what? First of all, why would I want to do that ON PURPOSE, ALL THE TIME? Second, doesn't the regular iPOD have a "shuffle" option? It's stupid if it doesn't, but it's even stupider if it DOES have that option, and Apple still pushed this slimy, mongoloid stepchild out into the market. This is like bricking up all the windows in your house because you want to be "surprised" by the weather when you go outside. It's such a thin, trite gimmick that I can't believe it actually made it all the way to production.
This is further proof that people who buy these things don't actually like music, they just like things.
And furthur proof that we can make profit off the stupidity of the public.
ReplyDeleteThe Shuffle is purely retarded, even retarded people think so.
ReplyDeleteI bought the Sandisk 512mb a while ago. Not only can I shuffle, I can play anything I want, when I want, AND I can use it as a storage device.
All for $25 CHEAPER than Shuffle.
Not to mention, when I did my research, many many people complained about the Shuffle's headphones. So not only is it a crippled MP3 player, but the headphones suck too, and it's more expensive.
But hey, I can't say I wouldn't give Steve Jobs a BJ if I saw him. The dudes a genius and the reason he is successful is because he knows how to milk the masses (New album by JackEdge).
Oh, and as a follow up. I RARELY use the goddamned MP3 player. Mostly because I don't have much spare time to rip music or even bittorrent it. I've used it many more times as a flash device so I can recover files off bad hard drives because they were stupid and didn't heed our warnings about not storing important information on their C: drive.
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