Who needs iPod photo?

摘要

Okay. I promisethat I'll start talkingabout the practical pros and cons of the iPod shuffle shortly. But before I get into that stuff, I feel as though I need to explore the possibility that this new iPod represents a turning point for our great collective dream known as Apple. Or even a tipping point that sends it tumbling over an embankment to crash and explode at the bottom of a ravine, like The Young Ones did in the final episode. Steve Jobs revealed the shuffle at Macworld Expo in San Francisco on a Tuesday (again with the Tuesdays!), and by Wednesday, you could spot them all over the convention centre, looking uncannily like the black monoliths of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Except that they were white and the size of packs of gum, and they were dangling from the necks of network consultants from Michigan, who only occasionally resembled the protohumans at the beginning of the movie. By the end of the week, people with iPod shuffles were spread all over the city, No matter where you went, from the desperately nostalgic diner across the street from the convention to the desperate-not-to-look-desperate upscale restaurants in North Beach tothejust-plain-desperate tourist traps at Fisherman's Wharf, you would spot our brothers and sisters, each wearing a mysterious white pendant with a big round button on it.