Consuming the Apple - iPod Nano

I remember the day when I first saw an iPod. I was on the bus during a field trip to the Boston Science Museum in middle school.

To put it nicely, it was a brick. In addition to its odd configuration, I was so used to buying CDs (usually 'Now #' CDs since, at the time, I couldn't even decide on a genre that I liked) that trying to conceptualize the purpose of having an iPod was beyond me. How could something so small hold so many songs? What was up with the plain white design and dinky white 'ear phones?' And wait, you can SEE what song is playing and SCROLL through a 'playlist'?? Insanity.

Obviously, I was still attached to my CD player, my my cool, sleek head phones and my mix-CDs that summed my life up into a small disc, so it was going to be a while before I even considered buying one of those crazy modern blocks.

But, as my music preferences were developing, Apple was working hard to make the iPod something every teenager needed (incluing myself). They made it smaller, more colorful, more convenient and overall, more cool. Bejeweled, inscribed iPods were a common sight when walking through the halls of my middle and high schools. So eventually the time came when I had to have one.

Can you believe it wasn't until my SENIOR YEAR of HIGH SCHOOL?! I was definitely a part of the late majority when it came to the iPod Nano. Anyway, it was the school trip to Florida in May 2007 that I HAD to have an iPod for -- forget dumb, bulky CD players with big, ugly head phones.

So, come my birthday in September, I had to purchase the iPod Nano: silver, with two, sleek rubber cases. I felt like I was ontop of the world; I was now a member of the Apple consumers.

Needless to say, I barely use my iPod now. I use it at the gym, or on my iHome during parties, but other than that I never use it. Sad but true.