Miami Herald Looks at Four iPod Nuts
Miami Herald Looks at Four iPod Nuts
by , 12:20 PM EST, March 28th, 2005
iPod owners, like Mac owners, often name and in other ways anthropomorphize their music players, and the Miami Herald looked at the phenomenon by profiling four such iPod owners. Part of the newspaper's cultural series "Tropical Life," the article shows a glimpse of the iPod culture to its mainstream readers.
"And he shall be called BoBo," wrote Knight-Ridder New Service reporter Heather Svokos. "With many iPod owners, this is how it starts. The anthropomorphizing sets in early. You cradle it -- for a piece of technology, perhaps a bit too lovingly.
"You show it off to your friends. You brag about all the songs it can play, all the tricks it can do, and you extol it and all its wondrous, bliss-filled, digital music-playing glory. Then you discover that you can give your iPod a name. And so you do. Hence the 'BoBo.'"
Bobob's owner is a dance instructor who once swore he would never own an iPod, and that they were a waste of time and money. Ms. Svokos also looked at Mac and iPod nut Paul Blight, who thinks of Apple products the same way he thinks about his religion, Kenneth Robinson, whose girlfriend knits iPod holders, and Susan Wade, whose 12-year old son told her she was happier after she got her iPod.
Entirely a fun piece, the full article has nothing in the way of "news," but does offer the iPod yet more exposure.
Observer Comments
Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:42 pm Subject: iPods To Carry Health Warning
Troll n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, “Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll.â€
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/troll.html
Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:49 pm Subject: Re: iPods To Carry Health Warning
QuoteRealityCheck wrote:
iPodders can become sociopathic misfits, new warning label may be required on all iPods. Check the facts:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/27/ipod_health_warnings/
Wow, you found an article that says posting stuff on the internet causes people to not get laid.
Are you trying to be ironic?
That sounds like a joke, I know, but it really says that!
QuoteGuest wrote:
Why does there always have to be an "-er", or a "head", or a "zoid" or "droid" at the end of the name of any Apple product when trolls describe its users? For that matter, what's up with "Windrones"? Is this really effective flamebait, or just a trite cliche?
I completely agree. I am not a "Maccer" or "Maccie" or "iPodder" or "Mac Fanatic" or "Mac Zealot" or "iPod Freak" or any other permutation of said stupid terms. I am a "Mac User" and an "iPod User." Nothing more, nothing less.
"iPodders can become sociopathic misfits, new warning label may be required on all iPods. Check the facts:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/27/ipod_health_warnings/"
Check the facts:
Kerrie Murphy banned iPods from the school on the basis that they're something one uses alone. And if using something alone turns people into sociopathic misfits, then consider yourself one, because you've made 280 posts while all alone at your computer. Ain't logic a bitch?
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