[SOLIDAge]

Man
i can't imagine not having this little thing. It the love of my life.
i have an original iPod and i love it!

Happy birthday

[G4ME]

it was Nov 11 when they were anounced right

[SOLIDAge]

no, from what i believe it was indeed October 23rd 2001

[oximoron]

Happy Bithday iPod. Don't know how I could live without you.

[ericwass]

Love of your LIFE!?! Wow! That's a little frightening. Nevertheless, I still really dig my original 5 gigger. I remember the howls of disappointment when, after all the press hype about Apple's new, revolutionary "digital device" , it turned out to be the iPod. In the end, of course, we all loved it.

Three requests for Apple though:
1. The ability to edit playlists on the iPod.
2. FM radio!
3. Recording capability

Otherwise, it's perfect!

[slider]

OK, i'll fold with maybe having an FM tuner, but a voice recorder. I would never use it, no thank you. Love my ten touch pad.

[G4ME]

I remember the day I picked up my iPod i made a special trip to the North Shore Mall in mass (3hrs) just for the occasion, I woke up at six so I could get there early and get a good spot in line planing that there would be a ton of people, alas there was only 5 people ahead of me when I got there at 9:30 and I just hung around talking mac **** with the people around. I must have fogged up the windows of the display for the iPod because they had to clean it.

I remember saying to my self "how frigging small it was". They had two lines going when the doors opened with about 100 iPods behind the counter and I was third on the left lane, I also picked up a copy of Alice at the time so my bill was something like 480 bucks, and I had it all in cash. I then watched the demo of how iTunes 2 and the iPod synced, and the EQ affects of iTunes. I made a smart ass comment about how iTunes was now just like Sound Jam (which I paid fifty bucks for a year earlier) the guy that was doing the presentation was silent.

Mean while my dad went over to Cambridge sound works and bought 4 speakers for our home theater system and on the way back we stopped at the New Hampsiher Liquor Store (conveniently located next to the highway with their own exit) to buy some cheap booze. I couldn't resist and I opened up the iPod and viewed it in all its glory, ten minutes later it was covered in finger prints and small scratches.

When I got home I pluged the bad a$$ into my G4 and downloaded most of my songs, not realizing that the MP3s on my USF OS X disk could not be transfered by some strange reason, alas I filled her up with 4.3 gigs have been happy every since.

Whats you iPod story

[Jens Peter]

On the 4 of september, before getting to work, I went to the local reseller to get my iPod. The sun was shining, it was a beatiful morning. I arrived to the store 10 minutes before they opened, just in time to see a truck pulling up in front of the shop, full of all kinds of macs.
When I got inside, the salesperson said that my iPod was somewhere in the truck, but it didn't take long to find the little box.
Then I drowe to work, having the box sitting at my desk for 4 hours - until I had lunchbreak.
I almost didn't have time to eat, and rushed back to my office to open the little thing. A collegue of mine came to ask me if I was all right, since I normally don't finish the lunck in 3 minutes.
I showed him the iPod and he went; aahhhhhh..... The only sad thing was, that at work we only have windows machines, so I could not hook it up with my mac.

But as I came home, it was the first thing I did, and boy, it diden't take long to transfer those 3 GB of music I had.The night before, I had been sitting and ripping all of my CD'es, and my roommate asked me why I was doing that. I told him about the iPod, and he went; Oh, a nother overpriced apple product. (He things win XP is the best thing ever happend to mankind..)
So when I came home, I plugged the iPod in, and started to transfer the songs. He didn't belive the speed in wich the songs were transfered, and he wasen't even interrested in seeing the iPod.
I didn't care, it was mine, and I loved it. The next morning I too it from my desk, and then I could see his fingerprints were all over the back of the iPod. I bet he things it's cool but he won't admitt that
a apple product can be cool...

That's my story..

Jens Peter

[DigitalEl]

I didn't get my iPod the week they were launched. It was more like a late Christmas present to myself.

I lived in Kansas City (Missouri) at the time, in the Northland. The only stores selling Apple products (that I knew about) were on the Kansas side of the border, about 40 minutes away. There was a driving snowstorm on the Saturday morning I decided to make the purchase.

It took me more than an hour to drive to the store, going between 30 and 40 on the slick roads. My GF thought I was nuts to drive that day, but waiting any more was not really an option.

I got all the way to the store and jumped out of the car, but something felt funny. Hand to arse. No wallet! I was so angry, I came home and sulked the rest of the day. I didn't get my iPod 'til about Wednesday of the next week, but it was well worth the wait.

Now that I've squeezed about 900 songs into 4.6 gigs, it may be time for an upgrade.