On the flight to Germany, my sister and I sat next to a guy heading back to Poland after a month in San Francisco. He said that he'd been busy working in the States and didn't get much of a chance to have the quintessential American experience, but he bought an iPod and now he "feels just like an American." I thought that was pretty cute -- are iPods the new Coke? -- but I didn't think too much about it.
Turns out, maybe iPods are an American thing. On a public bus, near a university, the rate of iPod/headphone use that I've observed is much, much lower than in the States. As a naive American, I'm honestly puzzled how it is possible that not everyone in the world has an iPod.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
My iPod, your iPod, we all ...
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2 comments:
Maybe euro-pop just isn't an iPod sort of thing ;)
Takemi -
Euro-pop isn't cool enough for the iPod? Will my iPod spontaneously destruct if I put Euro-pop on it? It already has a bunch of stuff I think it embarrassing.
Also, the lack of headphones doesn't seem to be limited to kids on the street. I feel like not so many people here are listening to music while they work. But maybe I'm just imagining that.
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