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To: LindyBill who wrote (18072)	11/29/2003 4:28:16 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794464

But the iPod is making an even bigger impression. Bruce Claxton, who is the current president of the Industrial Designers Society of America and a senior designer at Motorola, calls the device emblematic of a shift toward products that are ''an antidote to the hyper lifestyle,'' which might be symbolized by hand-held devices that bristle with buttons and controls that seem to promise a million functions if you only had time to figure them all out. ''People are seeking out products that are not just simple to use but a joy to use.'' Moby, the recording artist, has been a high-profile iPod booster since the product's debut. ''The kind of insidious revolutionary quality of the iPod,'' he says, ''is that it's so elegant and logical, it becomes part of your life so quickly that you can't remember what it was like beforehand.'' My sons and I each have an iPod. The two quotes above are true, IMO. Everywhere we go, people flip over this amazing little creation. Our Mac AND PC using friends are merrily buying iPods and using the free Apple iTunes music library program to access the Apple iMusic store and organize their tunes. We use simple patch cords to play through our home stereo systems while an inexpensive cassette adapter works great in the car or with a portable Boom Box. My unit now contains 3,300 songs -- about 250 full CDs. I have my entire personal audio library in my shirt pocket, I have, at my fingertips, all of the Beethoven symphonies, the Goldberg variations, many works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner, a dozen complete operas, two hundred Jazz works, the complete Hot Fives and Sevens, 100 tracks of Cuban and Brazilian music, hundreds of tracks of Rock and Roll from the 50's through today, hundreds of folk music tracks, several film soundtracks, and about a dozen CD's of audiobook Proust. It is a revolutionary, and oft imitated, product. Try it, you'll like it. :o) --fl@earbuds.com