iPod Addictiveness
Hello, my name is Marco, I’m 22 years old, and I’m an iPod addict.
Have you ever felt that you were connected to your iPod more than most gadgets? Well, with the exception of your personal computer, of course.
Today, just a I finished grabbing my backpack to head to college, I noticed I was missing my iPod. So I went to look at it at the places where I usually place things (at an arm’s distance from where I sit). When, to my despair, I couldn’t find it, I began looking for it at a more frantic pace.
And when I still couldn’t find it, I started looking for it in places that weren’t average, like the kitchen and living room, and I even ran to my car to see if I had left it connected to the iTrip I recently bought.
Eventually, I ran out of time, so I headed to college in my car listening to one of the CDs I burned quite a while ago, with a feeling of emptiness. I was once again reduced to a technology that was available 2 years before I was born (thanks Wikipedia).
I felt a little more irritated than usually, because I felt stripped of my daily routine of choosing which album, which artist or which playlist I felt like hearing. And instead, I was reduced to a single CD from a single artist.
At college, I couldn’t concentrate correctly in classes, the thought of where I could have misplaced my iPod kept coming back to me, regardless of how hard I tried to pay attention to all the nice numbers and calculations on the white board.
After what seemed like forever, I rushed home, not even bothering to put any music on, and restarted my search for the iPod.
Ironically, I found it exactly where I usually place it, underneath a DVD.
I guess the lesson here is: don’t misplace your DVDs.
But what I learned today was much more than that. Now I know why people have such a fondness for the iPod over all other music players, and why it continues to increase it’s sales more and more. In short, it’s because you grow attached to it. After you’ve bought a couple of accessories, or even if you haven’t, the iPod becomes the center of your digital live.
When you turn on your PC, you plug it on the dock/cable. When you get to your car, you plug it to the radio or broadcast to some radio frequency, when you’re studying, you plug it on the dock and use it as a mini stereo with the aid of the Apple Remote.
The iPod is involved with various little things of my life, because I chose to. Because I feel comfortable, and confident enough to. Sure, I know I sound like a fanboy right now, but the iPod isn’t just a music player, at least not for me.
It’s as if you don’t get used to the iPod, but the iPod get’s used to you. And now that I think about it, I wonder why the old Sony flash player I had didn’t have the same effect to me, although I found it a great gadget.
