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To: Doren who wrote (148020)	1/10/2013 7:06:27 PM
From: Stock Puppy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 213176

It surprises me though that they sell as many iPods as they do. Mostly to kids I think. Kids, perhaps, but also: iPods are less expensive and they don't need a $^@#$@#! plan that sucks money out of your wallet (or purse as the case may be) on a monthly basis. In addition, The iPods are also smaller and being not linked to important things, are somewhat "disposable" - now I know for many here this may be a foreign concept, and if so I hope it remains that way: when you're going to be in certain less desirable places but would still like some semblance of civilization via the music that you like to hear, "loss" of the iPod would be less hurtful than "losing" an iPhone. The iPod makes for a less attractive target for certain things in this world that are not nice. Like big fish that eat cats.

To: Doren who wrote (148020)	1/11/2013 12:37:49 AM
From: JP Sullivan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

Why would one need a watch when one carries a smart phone? Because it's faster and more convenient to look up the time on a wristwatch (I refer, of course, to a conventional, old school model, the kind with two hands). Fishing out the smart phone from the pocket and then pressing a button to turn it on just to tell the time is too clumsy for me. Btw, mobile phones that display the time have been around long before smart phones. And people are still wearing watches ;-)