| Monday, August 12, 2002 |
11:54 - iRresistible
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I think I just saw another iPod sell itself. And it didn't even have to show its face.
Our IT guy came into the break room where I was toasting a bagel with my iPod earbuds disappearing into my shirt. (He knew, just from the color of the wires evidently, what it was-- even though the iPod was hidden in my shirt pocket.) With a vague smirk and just a hint of a sneer, he asked me if there was any way to use those things with anything other than a Mac yet?
"Well, yeah," I told him. "You always could."
I explained about XPlay and EphPod, which he apparently hadn't heard of. "And anyway, there's now a real native Windows version available."
But, of course, he balked again at the fact that it was FireWire, which means that he'd have to get a FireWire card to use it. "I just haven't had anything yet that needs one," he said.
"What-- not a camcorder, even?"
"Oh, no, nothing like that." (This from a cutting-edge techy-geek type. I always have to remind myself that just because we've had FireWire for like three years now, and been making DV movies for about that long, it's still the realm of the idle rich on the Windows side.)
"But," he continued, "an iPod might just be reason enough for me to get one."
The peer pressure is impossible to withstand...
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