Top 5 Reasons Not To Buy An iPod
While it sometimes seems the whole world has rushed out to buy iPods, including President Bush, I will wait quite a while (and maybe forever) before buying one. Why, you ask? What could possess me to turn my back on this fashion statement, this technology revolution, this “iPod Oblivion” as a New York Senator recently called it?
5. Everyone and their mother has one. With iPods being sold at a rate of upwards of 40 million players per year (and growing!), pretty soon there won’t be anyone out there who doesn’t own one. You aren’t “cool” for using one, since by definition not everyone can be cool, but everyone has an iPod. The price of used iPods will keep dropping due to this, and you will be able to buy a used one for much cheaper.
4. Bad things happen to iPod people. There are dozens of instances of people walking into traffic and getting hurt or killed because they were distracted while crossing the street. One of our most important abilities as humans is hearing, since it can alert us to danger before we come into contact with it. You are lowering your survival chances by making use of an iPod.
3. It’s not music to my ears. There is sufficient evidence that wearing any sort of headphones, earphones, or other speaker that is placed close to your ear will take a toll on your hearing after continued use. As time goes on you will need to turn the volume up more and more, and meanwhile the real world that is occurring around you isn’t getting any louder.
2. You can’t marry it. The more people use iPods, the less opportunity they have to meet other people in places like the street, the gym, the supermarket and so on. Few people will interrupt your listening to strike up a conversation. Your odds of finding someone to date and subsequently get married will therefore be hurt.
1. It’s expensive entertainment. My mother always used to tell me that when she spent larger amounts of money she would think of it in terms of how many shoes that money could buy. When I asked her why she followed this strange routine, she said that the only way to measure the true cost of something is to compare it to what else (generally useful things like shoes) you can purchase with it.
Paying $200-$350, depending on the model of iPod
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February 9th, 2007 at 10:54 am
This post is idiotic. The title should be: “Top 5 reasons not to buy any MP3 player”. Everything you listed here doesn’t apply to just the iPod but to every MP3 player. And some of your reasons I feel you’re just really stetching and digging for reasons.
Jeremy,
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy the post.
I’m curious, which reasons did you not agree with?
February 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Maybe it’s in the name…
Aside from #5, all of these points are about MP3 players, not iPods. You can’t even see that basic fact and at least 3 of the points are stupid.
The empty can rattles the most…
Jeremy,
Since most people these days are buying iPods, and not other MP3 Players, it is indeed a good title in my opinion. What is important here isn’t the fact that it’s an iPod - it’s the fact that it is a fad which can have some big downsides. Not to mention, it’s a much easier title to recall, no?
February 27th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Pinny,
I have to agree with Jeremy. Besides for number #5, this is not specific to an iPod. I wonder if you have something against Apple or iPods specifically? Did you have one that broke or a bad customer experience?
Josh,
Well, since so many people have bought iPods specifically, these “effects” are worst when you look at the iPod. For instance, not “everyone” has anyone other type of MP3 player…they have iPods, the best selling MP3 player.
I don’t have anything against them personally, nor have I owned one in the past.
I specifically wrote about iPods because they ARE so successful. My main point is that right now it is more worth it to wait on buying an iPod. In a year or two, when the market is thoroughly saturated, and the competitors have caught up, we’ll get better pricing and quality…it’s the natural way a market works.
March 13th, 2007 at 2:16 am
#5 is not true.
if you buy an ipod then sure you have to pay for it just to listen to your music, but to listen to your music on a computer or laptop you still have to pay more than twice the amount of an ipod. so if an ipod is expencive just to listen to music, then a computer or laptop isn’t free is it, you have to pay more to listen to your music.
and can you just carry your computer around any where?
no you can’t
can you carry an ipod around any where?
just about any where.