January 26, 2006 (vol. 116, iss. 62) • Page Image 5
… by Apple, a computer company whose enduring hip- ness could only be dreamt of by the likes of IBM or Dell. At first, iPods were the domain of music geeks and those with sufficient cash to shop out of…
… recorded music with their computers, could organize their illegally-downloaded MP3s alongside the content of every CD they had painstak- ingly uploaded. Not only that, the iPod was tiny, portable and created…
… ultra-useful idea behind Apple's plastic albino wonder had been eclipsed by its functionality as an aes- thetic status symbol. Marketed correctly, the device's design proved to be just as magnetic to…