I am not and never have been a fan of the MAC operating system. I don't like MAC computers, either because they can only be repaired with Apple products instead of the universality of a PC which can use anything out there. That is why I have been a PC user from the get-go. I just don't like or understand MACs, never have, never will. But one thing I do ADORE is the iPod. Seriously. Best thing ever invented. My first one was a Christmas present from my family, a first generation iPod Shuffle. Unfortunately at the time I got it, I was still using my ancient Gateway desktop computer that ran Windows 98 and iPods were not set up to interface with that operating system, so I pretty much could not use it no matter how many times I tried to find programs that said they would work to allow the iPod to work with Windows 98. It was just no use trying to get it to work. So I didn't use it until I bought this laptop that runs Windows XP Pro, and suddenly I was off and running with my trusty little iPod. It only had 512MB of storage. but hey, it was a way to carry around my music with me to work and elsewhere. So it became an indispensible companion....until I was seduced by more advanced technology. A few years ago I bought my mom a 5th generation iPod Nano for Christmas. I thought it was the coolest and prettiest little gizmo I had ever seen. Bright green and filled with amazing features, I began coveting one myself. So one day I got on eBay and typed in iPod Nano and found an auction ending in 30 seconds for a 4th generation iPod Nano, in blue, my favorite color choice. I took a longshot and bid and to my surprise and shock, I won the iPod! It arrived and I immediately set to work filling it up with as much music as I could put on it. After all, it came with a nice big 8G
capacity, meaning I could load it up with multiple playlists. It has since become my almost constant companion. I use it daily at work, charging it up at night as I sleep so that it will be ready for me the next morning. I've got a mixture of classical, early music and folk on it and it's so nice to turn it on and decide what my mood for the day will be and then choose the appropriate music for it. I can change around my playlists as need be and my Christmas music will soon be on it as the holidays approach. I just love this little gizmo so much and I cannot imagine life without it anymore, and this is exactly what Steve Jobs imagined when he engineered the iPod and other Apple products. He knew what products we wanted even before we knew we wanted them, so when he would introduce them, people would run out and buy them in droves despite the expense. His products have revolutionized the way we do things in the past decade, from the iPod to iTunes to the iPhone and iPad. It's so awful that at the relatively youthful age of 56, cancer has taken Mr. Jobs from us because he has no peer who can step in and move things forward. So this may well be the end of the line for all of the revolutionary products put out by Apple, but certainly he has made history and will probably be right up there with people like Thomas Edison and other innovators who changed our lives forever. It's thanks to Mr. Jobs that the personal computer became more than just the purvue of the geeky few. He had a vision of it being something for everyone and it certainly has become just that. Thanks to him, we have so much outstanding technology that has shrunk our world and revolutionized the way we communicate with each other and how we listen to music, just to name a few things that have changed in the past decade. I know that my iPod is an extension of who I am, my primary musical tool that I use to listen to music. My CD player is, well, so 1990s. It sits on top of my boom box, another ancient relic, that one of the 80s, and both collect a hell of a lot of dust. They remind me of just how far things have come in the past 10, 15, 20 years. It seems like technology now moves at the speed of light anymore and the minute you buy any techno-gizmo, it becomes obsolete almost the minute you get it home from the store. My cell phone, iPod and laptop are so 2006! Ancient by technological standards. Dinosaurs, practically. Musuem pieces. Today, the iPad and iPod Touch are the "It" objects to own. Sure, I'd love to have one or both, but....on my budget, it's not going to happen. So I content myself with my lovely little blue 8G 4th generation iPod Nano. Thank you, Steve Jobs, for creating all this amazing technology that is moving our world forward at lightspeed. Your name will go down in history alongside those of Edison, Galileo and others whose discoveries changed our world forever.
I am not and never have been a fan of the MAC operating system. I don't like MAC computers, either because they can only be repaired with Apple products instead of the universality of a PC which can use anything out there. That is why I have been a PC user from the get-go. I just don't like or understand MACs, never have, never will. But one thing I do ADORE is the iPod. Seriously. Best thing ever invented. My first one was a Christmas present from my family, a first generation iPod Shuffle. Unfortunately at the time I got it, I was still using my ancient Gateway desktop computer that ran Windows 98 and iPods were not set up to interface with that operating system, so I pretty much could not use it no matter how many times I tried to find programs that said they would work to allow the iPod to work with Windows 98. It was just no use trying to get it to work. So I didn't use it until I bought this laptop that runs Windows XP Pro, and suddenly I was off and running with my trusty little iPod. It only had 512MB of storage. but hey, it was a way to carry around my music with me to work and elsewhere. So it became an indispensible companion....until I was seduced by more advanced technology. A few years ago I bought my mom a 5th generation iPod Nano for Christmas. I thought it was the coolest and prettiest little gizmo I had ever seen. Bright green and filled with amazing features, I began coveting one myself. So one day I got on eBay and typed in iPod Nano and found an auction ending in 30 seconds for a 4th generation iPod Nano, in blue, my favorite color choice. I took a longshot and bid and to my surprise and shock, I won the iPod! It arrived and I immediately set to work filling it up with as much music as I could put on it. After all, it came with a nice big 8G 
capacity, meaning I could load it up with multiple playlists. It has since become my almost constant companion. I use it daily at work, charging it up at night as I sleep so that it will be ready for me the next morning. I've got a mixture of classical, early music and folk on it and it's so nice to turn it on and decide what my mood for the day will be and then choose the appropriate music for it. I can change around my playlists as need be and my Christmas music will soon be on it as the holidays approach. I just love this little gizmo so much and I cannot imagine life without it anymore, and this is exactly what Steve Jobs imagined when he engineered the iPod and other Apple products. He knew what products we wanted even before we knew we wanted them, so when he would introduce them, people would run out and buy them in droves despite the expense. His products have revolutionized the way we do things in the past decade, from the iPod to iTunes to the iPhone and iPad. It's so awful that at the relatively youthful age of 56, cancer has taken Mr. Jobs from us because he has no peer who can step in and move things forward. So this may well be the end of the line for all of the revolutionary products put out by Apple, but certainly he has made history and will probably be right up there with people like Thomas Edison and other innovators who changed our lives forever. It's thanks to Mr. Jobs that the personal computer became more than just the purvue of the geeky few. He had a vision of it being something for everyone and it certainly has become just that. Thanks to him, we have so much outstanding technology that has shrunk our world and revolutionized the way we communicate with each other and how we listen to music, just to name a few things that have changed in the past decade. I know that my iPod is an extension of who I am, my primary musical tool that I use to listen to music. My CD player is, well, so 1990s. It sits on top of my boom box, another ancient relic, that one of the 80s, and both collect a hell of a lot of dust. They remind me of just how far things have come in the past 10, 15, 20 years. It seems like technology now moves at the speed of light anymore and the minute you buy any techno-gizmo, it becomes obsolete almost the minute you get it home from the store. My cell phone, iPod and laptop are so 2006! Ancient by technological standards. Dinosaurs, practically. Musuem pieces. Today, the iPad and iPod Touch are the "It" objects to own. Sure, I'd love to have one or both, but....on my budget, it's not going to happen. So I content myself with my lovely little blue 8G 4th generation iPod Nano. Thank you, Steve Jobs, for creating all this amazing technology that is moving our world forward at lightspeed. Your name will go down in history alongside those of Edison, Galileo and others whose discoveries changed our world forever.
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