Tag Archives: Consumerism

iPod watch

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I’m done counting. I think we all get the picture: the iPod is popular. Damn near ubiquitous! So how come Apple is still sucking wind?

iPod watch

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I took the Brown Line from Irving Park today, and running into a co-worker just before entering our building made the count 12…again.

iPod watch

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A whopping 12 today.

iPod watch

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I caught brief glimpses of white earbuds blurring by before the train came to a halt at several stations (especially Logan Square and Division — our Green Point and Williamsburg equivalents) but couldn’t keep track of them to make an accurate count. Today’s tally (this is already getting tedious) is 9.

Open to Exploitation

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The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania released a study today that surveys American shoppers. Titled Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline, the study reveals that a majority of shoppers hold wrong notions of what seller practices are legal or not. Here’s a gem from a news article about the [...]

iPod watch

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I am starting a running count of how many iPods I see everyday on the way to work. My commute is from Montrose (Blue Line) to Chicago (Blue Line), and on the Chicago Ave. bus (#66) from Milwaukee to Orleans. I am basing my tabulation on sighting the conspicuous white earbuds, or the iPod itself. [...]

iPod…”shuffle”?

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Want to do the iPod “shuffle”? Has the iPod “shuffled” its way into your life? Want to play some music?: Well, “shuffle-up” and deal! Crap jokes aside, Apple’s ability to microscopically segment a market has just broken another barrier so small no one knew it existed. The iPod shuffle is tinier than the iPod mini, [...]

2005 Ford Mustang

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I saw one of these on a dealer’s lot this weekend. Damn that’s a cool car! Ford brought back the muscle-car-style front, replacing the crappy 90′s rounded version with a grill that looks hungry for asphalt. Henry — we gotta go test drive one!

Gilberto Gil: Open Source is cultural cannibalism…and a good thing

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Brazil’s Gilberto Gil, the granddaddy of tropicalismo music, is also the godfather of a huge shift in that country’s attitude toward open source everything. While Microsoft and other entrenched factions are putting up a fight, Gil and others realize the concept of intellectual property is only as useful as the benefits we all can reap [...]

Apple and Motorola team up on music-playing phones

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Apple and Motorola will team up to bring iTunes to Motorola’s next generation of phones. This will expose a huge audience of consumers to Apple’s MP3 player and online music store.

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