Is any one else besides me hoping that Apple...

"Job's contrails" is an apt description of Apple's continued existence. I've never understood the premium that people are willing to pay for the Apple name and a few month's jump on their neighbors with the "latest and greatest." It's one of the finest examples of mass marketing, consumerism, and planned obsolescence ever executed, fueled in part by "exploitive" labor rates in third-world countries.

Not to mention the amazing irony of putting that act over on a demographic that prides itself on its resistance to mass marketing and consumerism, and regards income inequality and environmentalism as a near-religions.

W.T.F. ?? It's an amazing piece of legerdemain, I have to give them that.

I'm one of those rare birds who's never bought into the Apple mystique. They've always seemed overpriced for the feature set to me. Yeah, they're trendsetters, and some people are willing to pay for that privilege, but at the rate of tech progress, you can always get the same feature set at half the price within a few months somewhere else. We do have an iPad we bought for compatibility with others, but it was certainly overpriced for what I got compared to a comparable Android device.

I'm really sad they aren't still making the old kind of ipods -- the ones that were for nothing but music, and had enough space to put your entire music collection on them. I have a 32gb ipod touch, and that just isn't large enough. I'd love to be able to load all my CDs onto one. As it is, I have to pick and choose.

Is anyone making that kind of music player?

Huh. I might have to consider that. But damn, they are not cheap.

good lord. I don't need all of that!

My new phone has a micro SD slot that will take the largest cappacity cards they make. I could put all my music on a 128gb card and use my phone as a music player. That's a cheaper option if I want to carry my all music around. I may have to consider it.

Still amazing to me that those wee little flakes of cards can hold so much.