While catching up on a number of blogs, I discovered that I missed an important birthday last week: the iPod turned six on October 23, as I learned from The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The site includes a video of Steve Jobs introducing the brand new concept. At the end, he pulls the new iPod out of his pocket, and everyone is stunned at how small it is — which is funny, when you consider the new versions are so much smaller.
I have and love the very elegant first-generation black 1G iPod Nano, which holds more than enough to keep me company on 30-60 minute dog walks and the very occasional multi-hour airport waits. (Every wait is multi-hour; it’s just my travel that is occasional.) The Nano replaced my old clunky CD player and bulky case of CDs that I previously had to lug around. Half the time I would pop a CD case in my bag and forget that the CD itself was somewhere else. Meanwhile, my two sons were happily listening to more tunes that I could carry OR forget, because they were the first on the block to own the original iPod, thanks to an eary adopter uncle.
But that’s GenY, always way ahead of us Boomers! I’m working on catching up.
