I have enjoyed every generation of iPod I have ever owned, and it appears that the new iPod Mini is on its way to a similarly legendary status. The ways you can tell that the iPod has changed how I see music:
1. When I hear the iPod Mini only hold 4 gigs of music, I think it is small. My first computer had 2K expandable to 4K!
2. My last 5 bought "CDs" were all purchases of albums from the iTunes Music Store. The last physical CD I bought was... well... last year, I think.
3. I have seriously thought about upgrading my perfectly good Powerbook, because its hard drive is smaller than my iPod's!
4. When I thought I had lost my iPod, I did not think "Oh, no! $500 down the drain!" I thought, "Well, time to buy a new one."
5. A few months back, there was a special speaker at our church, whom I missed (in the hospital that week). The church sent over tapes of his sessions for me. "Tapes," I stared at the plastic thingies. "Do I even own a tape player anymore?" (I didn't!)
6. I find myself increasingly annoyed by the compilation CDs that the corporations put out. I keep thinking, "I could make a better collection than that with a Playlist on my iPod."
7. I have a friend planning to have an iPod at his wedding in place of a DJ. Cheaper (since the iPod was already purchased) and he gets exactly the songs he wants. The last DJ'd wedding I was at, they actually had to threaten the guy to play the songs the bride and groom had picked out. Apparently, the guy had just spent $$$ on a karaoke machine, and could only charge for it if he induced at least one guest to use it. He never did.
8. When I look back at my last diskman, all I can think of is how poorly it was designed. Who ever thought about how a thing was designed before the iPod?!
9. I now own more audiobooks on MP3 than I ever did on CD.
10. I never bought singles in record stores, but buy single songs almost every week.
Now all we need is someone to put out a decent video iPod. Maybe with video goggles.
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