What's wrong with the iPod

January 4, 2006 1:48 PM | Permalink

Good UI analysis. I know there are many iPod fans out there. I never had an iPod or any other portable music player for a long time. (I had a cassette player like 10 years ago, but since switching to CD-s and digitals, I found I simply don’t listen to music when on the move.)

I’d add about the headphones and wires: in early- and mid-90s, there were people with corded mobile headsets (I had one too…) which ran a wire from your mobile to your mics and earphones. And people who were wearing them looked like total dorks. But now that the wires are white, Apple-branded and connected to an iPod, walking about like a dork has suddenly become cool? I guess heavy marketing can turn even the greatest dorkness into cool.