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How many iPods do you see a day? (Campus/work)
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Apr 18, 2002, 06:23 PM
 
today i counted 3 (not counting mine) here at school
i also see alot at Penn Station when i'm there

i think Apple is doing fine w/ reaching out to new people!

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Apr 18, 2002, 06:26 PM
 
What's a capus ?
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 06:28 PM
 
I see one a day, and it's mine. People here aren't that tech savvy, and ask what it is all the time. Everyone has a cell phone though, and they always go off during lecture!
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 06:32 PM
 
Zero at work or anywhere else.

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Apr 18, 2002, 06:32 PM
 
Other than my iPods, I see no iPods. Nobody has them. I see CD players and MP3 players, but nobody seems to know what an iPod is until I show them one.

It must be something with the water in Livermore.
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 06:43 PM
 
3 at work and I think one at school if I don't include mine.
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 07:05 PM
 
I've seen two on my "capus." One, I actually didn't see... I just saw the distintive white earbuds. The other one was at the gym. A friend that I was with had no idea what an iPod was when I made some whimsical remark about that girl's iPod. But he did know the "1,000 songs in your pocket" line...

Then try this one on: one of my flat mates habitually refers to the melon-shaped iMac as "the iPod." I corrected him the first time, but I don't bother anymore. He's just not getting it.

Maybe the dancing guy in the iPod commercial didn't have quite the effect that Apple was hoping it would. People don't seem to be relating the "1,000 songs in your pocket" tag line to the actual device.
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 07:10 PM
 
off-topic, but a friend of mine at school calls my TiBook an iMac. it's funny when he does it though
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 07:17 PM
 
I see mine most days, but haven't met anyone with one since Apple released it last year. Everybody likes mine tough. They usually say: I wish I could afford it!
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 07:46 PM
 
Zero, naught, nada, zilch. We po'folk here on "capus."

I haven't seen a single one and it doesn't really surprise me. To me, that price tag is still too prohibitive.
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Apr 18, 2002, 07:51 PM
 
not a one.
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Apr 18, 2002, 08:06 PM
 
I only see mine at school.
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 08:26 PM
 
including me... 3 on my floor (60 kids total) that is pretty good

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Apr 18, 2002, 08:36 PM
 
Outside of stores, the only iPod I've seen since I bought mine in November ... is mine. I think its the only one for miles around.

I like to show mine off, though, and it always gets a ton of attention -- generally bordering on awe!
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 08:46 PM
 
I *wish* I had one... Off topic, but does anyone know of a car stereo that you can connect an iPod to and export the music?


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Apr 18, 2002, 10:37 PM
 
Besides mine, I haven't seen any around in Santa Rosa, Ca. My iPod accompanies me everywhere I go; at work, to the gym, in my car, ect. As Montanan mentioned, you get a lot of people coming up to you and commenting on how cool your iPod is. A lot of people I talk to really want one but just can't afford it.

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Apr 18, 2002, 10:41 PM
 
wow. well i can honestly say i see 2 a week, not mine.

i can tell by the white headphones, but i see guys on the train...people in elevators, and even on the street, so there

remember...apple doesn't have to sell 10 million to be sucessful
     
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Apr 18, 2002, 10:52 PM
 
Zero on average.

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Apr 18, 2002, 11:41 PM
 
I've *NEVER* seen one... they just aren't around here.

And who wouldn't understand that, with a pricetag of nearly a grand.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 02:49 AM
 
I have seen only one outside of the stores since it was released.. at the airport in Philly
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 03:22 AM
 
Only mine. But I saw a girl on the train yesterday with the ugliest MD player and I had to whip mine out to show her how great it is. My iPod.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 03:37 AM
 
I see people with iPods all the time
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Apr 19, 2002, 03:47 AM
 
Originally posted by Scrod:
<STRONG>I see people with iPods all the time</STRONG>
But they don't know they have iPods. It's your job to make them aware that they have iPods otherwise they will be walking around for eternity haunting the corridors of Cupertino.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 05:11 AM
 
Mine + 1 at work.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 05:29 AM
 
I have never seen an iPod that wasn't mounted to a display case in J&R. (But everytime I go I play Breakout!)
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 07:42 AM
 
have to give this thread some support.
ipods sell out routinely at the mac retailers i know in tokyo,
and i see them on the train (earbuds, like others said)
or in general cityscapes

at least once a week.
since i've changed to smaller earbuds, i'm not as noticable, but i do give them a big gaijin grin.

it's a tiny community of the rich or the easily separated (from their money).
and i'm happy to be one of them...

i also see my buddy's ipod at least a couple times a week...

wish we could link them...
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Apr 19, 2002, 09:23 AM
 
i see mine everyday,
but have seen at least two or three sets of buds on campus.

at the gym some guy came up to me and had a 5 minute conversatoin about my ipod, he wanted to play with it etc.
i can't believe all the people who carry around diskmans and the like to the gym. i also never saw the point in minidiscs. but hey, that's just me.

i just put the pod in my shorts pocket, it is by far the best music device out there. before the pod i had a rio with 64MB that was great for the gym, 1 hour of music, but had to switch songs, batteries all the time.
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Apr 19, 2002, 09:26 AM
 
Zero at work.
Zero at school.
Zero at the gym.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 10:19 AM
 
Although I'm waiting for one with a larger hard drive, I drove three hours to see on at the new apple store in Plano, Texas. There are none in this Peyton's Place I call home.
     
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Apr 19, 2002, 10:24 AM
 
Well let's see...

Looking around here at work...thinking back over the last couple of weeks... adding up all the iPods I've ever seen... the grand total would be...none.
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Apr 19, 2002, 10:29 AM
 
Never seen an iPod anywhere...

More accurately, I've never seen anyone with an Apple product of any description in almost 5 years.
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Apr 19, 2002, 05:16 PM
 
I've seen one iPod outside the stores. hmmm you'd think there would be more in a big City like NY
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