Not to go all Tyler Durden on you, but we’re all basically consumers. I admit it; I get a kick out of buying new shit and have, on occasion, bought something just to “have” it. One thing I’ve never had – and never really wanted to have – was an iPod. (Although I guess even that’s not true since I did buy one for my trip to Taiwan in 2002. But I don’t count that, seeing as I returned it when I got back.) At any rate, that’s one consumer addiction I never fell prey to.
Why bring this up now? Well, what the fuck is this? Is this even real? A toilet paper roll thingee with a fucking iPod control on it? To quote one of my all-time favorite SNL sketches, “Who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?”
If you’re really interested in listening to your painstakingly crafted iPod mix whilst on the crapper — ooooh, look, you’ve got Maroon 5 in between Joy Division and Jay-Z. How edgy — you can find out more about it here.
I don’t know about you guys, but I think this is a real crappy product. Makes me wonder when Apple will roll out their new iPod line. I mean, you’d think Microsoft would come up with something that’d wipe this out. But I guess I can’t blame the engineers at Apple…they’re just [two] plying their trade.
Okay, I’ll stop now.
4 responses so far ↓
melaina // Jul 30, 2006 at 9:24 pm
i’m not the arbiter of spelling, but wouldn’t Jay-Z come before Joy Division, and Maroon 5 come after both? ;-)
Jeremy Abramson // Jul 30, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Sure.
If it was an alphabetic playlist.
I believe the whole “point” of a playlist it to play the music in a specific (i.e. perhaps something other than alphabetic) order.
But hey, what do I know?
melaina // Jul 31, 2006 at 9:06 pm
yeah. you obviously don’t have an ipod
Jeremy // Jul 31, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Right. Because no one would ever do something like, you know, make a playlist, right? Who’d do something that dumb, to actually put [some of] their music in a specific order!?
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