Pod Spotting

[idarknight]

This was on the old board as well, so let's start it here - where are you starting to see iPods popping up and what do you do when you see a fellow podder?

Me?

I've seen them around campus and in the gym. There are three people I see wearing the white buds regularly.

Though at a recent conference I noticed a few delegates with them, using them to truck around presentations and such.

[bluecamel]

I'm a college student in Kansas and I never see any around here, but when I was in Chicago over spring break I saw at least 5 on the downtown buses. I didn't do anything. I just figured that they were enjoying their tunes and didn't want to bother them.

[mongoos150]

A kid at my high school (freshman) has an old-school 20GB. A member of my Church Orchestra has an old-school 10GB. I walk around the U of A (University of Arizona here in Tucson) and there are a huge number of iPod users. About one of every three hip college people listening to music is listening to an iPod.

[Joe]

I've never come across a fellow iPodder in real life. :(

[Marre]

Originally posted by Joe
I've never come across a fellow iPodder in real life. :(

Me neither... :(

[stasyna]

I've scene two people total, downtown.

greetz,
Peter

[Lazurus]

I started dating a girl *gasp* because I noticed her pod.

It was a warm summer day, the sun was high in the sky and the air smelled sweet. She rolled past me, slowly, with two white earbuds and an ipod covered in an aqua blue Jam Jacket. Her eyes met mine as she began to stare at the large headphones resting on my head. She followed the cord below my waist to see none other then a bulge in my pants. Quizzicaly, she asked, "What kind of iPod?"

How did she know what was in my pants? It could have been a Diamond Rio, or a Nomad Zen. No - she knew the exact shape of the lump in my pants, she knew the size of my iPod.

Cheesy enough? ;-)

[Joe]

That's a great story, Lazurus. Cheesy? Definately. But nonetheless, a great story.

[bluecamel]

Another reason to carry your iPod everywhere?

[CanaMacPod]

Boom-chicka-bow-wow...

[ButMrAdams]

Here in NY I see folks with pods daily. Usually the white earbuds are a dead giveaway, and if I have mine in as well, the fellow 'podder and I usually lock eyes for a moment (which, in NY, is a lot!)
The most interesting thing is seeing how NYers carry their pods. Most (like me) have them in well-concealed locations, like a hidden pocket or lockboxed purse. Clearly, this gives us all the false sense of safety from getting our 'pods snatched out of our hands!

[Kirk]

I've seen several bladers, joggers and bicyclists with iPods. They're most prevalent on the beach boardwalks around Los Angeles.

[harry]

I know a couple of people who have iPods (one because I gave it to her) but I never see them with theirs. I haven't run into a stranger who had an iPod, but I can describe how people who don't have them behave. It's usually to tap me on the shoulder and ask what is that? It's fun to explain what the iPod is and how much music/files it can hold. Since I usually have a second set of headphones and the adapter with me I'll give them a listen. It can be a good way to meet someone new... as long as they like what I'm listening to.:D

[gizmo53]

My uncle is one of those guys who always get the newest things. Then I get to play with them. He had an iPod a month after they first came out (woah. talk about scratched. You can barely see some of the laser-engraved stuff on the back).

A kid who works on the ambulance with me (In CT, you can be 16 to be an EMT) has a 10 GB that he got in april. He paraded it around there like he was such a hot-shot (he tried to argue against me for about 10 minutesthat Linksys wireless routers didn't allow mac's to connect. Then I said "screw it" and pulled out my iBook, and showed him what was inside our server room). Wait until I show him my 15 GB w/ Dock...

Also, I saw a kid who also suddenly had white earphones. He just got a new 15 GB one, and he was "oh that sucks" when I told him my defective iPod story. Apparently, several other kids in our school got iPods, but I haven't seen them. I tell you, these things are an excellent upgrade from my Archos 6 GB brick/mp3 player

[kamj12]

i guess not too many chicago-owners....or they are hiding somewhere.... :P i haven't seen one yet!!

[hype]

Originally posted by Lazurus
I started dating a girl *gasp* because I noticed her pod.

It was a warm summer day, the sun was high in the sky and the air smelled sweet. She rolled past me, slowly, with two white earbuds and an ipod covered in an aqua blue Jam Jacket. Her eyes met mine as she began to stare at the large headphones resting on my head. She followed the cord below my waist to see none other then a bulge in my pants. Quizzicaly, she asked, "What kind of iPod?"

How did she know what was in my pants? It could have been a Diamond Rio, or a Nomad Zen. No - she knew the exact shape of the lump in my pants, she knew the size of my iPod.

Cheesy enough? ;-)

I wished that happened to me. But are you sure thats why she was looking below your waist? ;)

I've seen a few around uni, mainly recognise them because of the white earbuds.

[Bob]

Originally posted by Kirk
I've seen several bladers, joggers and bicyclists with iPods. They're most prevalent on the beach boardwalks around Los Angeles.

If my visit to Venice Beach was anything to go by, the last thing I'd be looking for would be iPods;) :D

[Kirk]

Heh, and the viewing gets even better further south of Venice. :D
Hermosa Beach Webcam on top of Hennessey's Tavern - Watch the girls go by on blades (http://www.hermosawave.net/webcam/)
Hermosa Beach Webcam at GoodStuff - Watch the peeps sit outside a local restaurant (http://www.eatgoodstuff.com/strandcam/)
Manhattan Beach Webcam - surfers mostly (http://www.snapnsend.com/strandcam/0008.htm)

[AptMunich]

i guess not too many chicago-owners....or they are hiding somewhere.... :P i haven't seen one yet!!



Billy Corgan has one, so keep your eyes peeled for the big tall freaky great one with white earbuds!

[XiXora]

i've never seen an ipod before EVER until today :D
i looked in the new apple store in birmingham and the old style ipod is TINY... for a hdd walkman and the new g3's are smaller? #### i cant wait for mine to arrive tuesday!
seen a zen tho... huge :p

[Microchips]

Originally posted by AptMunich
Billy Corgan has one, so keep your eyes peeled for the big tall freaky great one with white earbuds!


Billy Corgan? Cool!

Heh, I bet he uses it to listen to Machina II...

[bluecamel]

Originally posted by AptMunich
Billy Corgan has one, so keep your eyes peeled for the big tall freaky great one with white earbuds!

Where'd you hear that?

[destined_wind]

...the reason that I ordered my Ipod was because my friend had a 10 gb gen 2 one... I was truly envious of the sleek exterior and the technical prowess of the little bundle of joy that he held in his hands... the way it glistened as the morning rays gently brushed against the Lucite surface and the....

Oh wait...yeah, thats... too much...

[martini]

Spotted my first iPod on the subway yesterday... it was one of the old ones, but it made me even more excited to get mine!

[jcroft]

Originally posted by bluecamel
I'm a college student in Kansas and I never see any around here, but when I was in Chicago over spring break I saw at least 5 on the downtown buses. I didn't do anything. I just figured that they were enjoying their tunes and didn't want to bother them.

Since you're a college student in Topeka, KS, I'll assume you go to Washburn University. If my assumption is correct, then you can rest assured that there is at least one fellow iPodder on your campus. I work at WU in ITS and have mine with me every day. :D

Jeff

[blehbrian]

I attend UCLA as an undergrad and so far I've seen four other iPod's on campus. Ranging from people in my classes, people on the bus, people walking around campus, and people working front desks. Throw me in the mix and that's five so far, out of a good 45k+ students. I'm sure there are plenty more.

[Varekai2]

Originally posted by kamj12
i guess not too many chicago-owners....or they are hiding somewhere.... :P i haven't seen one yet!!

I see them frequently on the Metra trains and the CTA trains. I never ride the busses, but when I travel the lines so I don't have to bother with traffic, thats where I requently spot them.

It's funny, cause whenever I do see them with it on... they usually give you a nod while shaking the unit when I pull mine out. (Don't have a guttermind... :p)

[twlutz]

I was traveling up the grapevine (north of LA) two nights ago and a Jeep drove by me--I probably wouldn't have paid attention except I noticed a glowing screen from the passanger side and four red lights underneath it. First ipod I've seen out and about. I tried to catch up to the person to turn my ipod on and let them know I'm another fellow ipodder, but they were flying along the freeway and I couldn't catch up (within reasonable speed ;) ).

[Impulse29]

Well I live in Canada, and there is only 1 person (well 2 now) that have iPod's at my school... The first is a good friend of mine... he bought one because he saw mine... the other one was mine, but someone stole it... :( I've never seen anyone with an iPod, but I think I'd just nod my head to them.

[iamaustin]

Just saw one in the Italian Job

[CanaMacPod]

There's an iPod in The Italian Job? Sweet, gotta see that one. BTW, who in the movie had it? Charlize?

[JVOBIKER]

Yea...when she is practicing opening a vault she is listening to it.

[Endoscient]

someone in my art class has a 1/2 gen one

thats all ive seen

[Timmy Yak]

I had someone at the gym ask me where I got my Marware case a couple weeks ago.

[AptMunich]

Originally posted by AptMunich
Billy Corgan has one, so keep your eyes peeled for the big tall freaky great one with white earbuds!



Where'd you hear that?



Billy posted it sometime on the official smashing pumpkins website message board, which is now unfortunatly closed...


it was soooo cool, he had this whole mystery thing going about the machina story and websites such as


www.smashthesystem.org

and a couple of others with really bizarre stuff!!


Now www.smashingpumpkins.com only takes you to the zwan website! :(

[ginalee]

well I've never seen anyone with an iPod in Austria and they've only just started selling them at a nationwide electronics store chain. So I will definitely be one of the chosen few this side of the Danube when I get mine TOMORROW!!!!!!!

[madricka]

I saw one girl on the TTC (transit system in Toronto) with one -- actually, just the remote peeking out of her jacket (Warden Station, if you Torontonians are curious ;)). This was WAY before getting mine so naturally I was insane with jealousy. *lol*

As for tv stuff... well, JLo is dancing with one in the video for "Jenny on the Block"... did ya ever notice? Not really a fan of hers, but it's pretty obvious if you look. Nothing like dancing around in your underpants with an iPod in hand!

[circadian]

I guess you just see them more once you start looking for them, but I normally see two or three different people with them every day when I'm on the Underground here in London. I'm going by how many people have the white earbuds, it's pretty rare to see the pod itself, although I have seen a couple of the 3rd gen ones.

I can't believe how many different people I've seen over the last two weeks with them!

[salmonjunkie]

I know at least 5 people who own one. I've seen them around. Most recently I saw a student who goes to the tech school downstairs from my office holding one.

Last winter, I was snowboarding at Mammoth and the guy next to me on the ski lift had an iPod with him, too. He had battery issues, though. Go fig. I took a picture of mine and put it up on the Pods around the world section. The one with the red snowboard with the Z-Trip sticker on it. Oh, wait, we can't view it right now. :(

[ipodmom]

I see my son using his 20 gigger all the time!

Simon Baker of The Guardian TV Show has one (as reported by one of his fans who visited the show's set and talked about it on a fansite).

I work at a university in Chicago and haven't seen one yet on campus but have seen two college students with iPods waiting for the "el" at the university stop. Now that I own a 30 gb I'm always on the lookout for fellow ipoders.

[salmonjunkie]

I'm sure most of you already know, but Moby wrote a blurb about the iPod on Rolling Stone a few months ago. The American Icons issue. Yes, the iPod is an American Icon according to Moby and Rolling Stone magazine.

[JVOBIKER]

ipodmom, which university?

[idarknight]

Strong Sad has one in the new Strong Bad email - http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail76.html -

[armless]

Well I live in a small white town and quite a few people have their small white ipods at my school.

[IlIlIlIlIl]

I attend Cornell University, and I occassionally spot people with the iPod. like one time, someone was at the dining hall eating and he had an iPod lying right next to him...and a friend of mine got his 2nd gen iPod around March and that's when I realized that I MUST GET ONE...so i got a 3rd gen

[CanaMacPod]

My sister saw a close neighbour with an iPod the other day. Two iPods living on the same block, go figure.

[MFCdriver]

Pod Spotting - Pearl Jam's Front of House Sound Engineer

I went to a string of Pearl Jam concerts last week and their FOH sound engineer uses an older-style iPod for the pre and post-concert music. He has it wired into a Midas soundboard, which sends it to the PA.

[XiXora]

Someone spotted me with an ipod but i havent spotted anyone else... i've sent my ipod back thought waiting for a usb2 cable to come out :/

[bsodmike]

Originally posted by Lazurus
I started dating a girl *gasp* because I noticed her pod.

It was a warm summer day, the sun was high in the sky and the air smelled sweet. She rolled past me, slowly, with two white earbuds and an ipod covered in an aqua blue Jam Jacket. Her eyes met mine as she began to stare at the large headphones resting on my head. She followed the cord below my waist to see none other then a bulge in my pants. Quizzicaly, she asked, "What kind of iPod?"

How did she know what was in my pants? It could have been a Diamond Rio, or a Nomad Zen. No - she knew the exact shape of the lump in my pants, she knew the size of my iPod.

Cheesy enough? ;-)

If it is true...WOW. A really cool story, well told and love the twist at the end hehe....Luckily you had the iPod in a pocket, not somewhere else.......she might have confused it with something else - lmao!

hehe :D :D :D

[bsodmike]

I only know of a really close friend that got a second gen iPod (20gig) and saw one guy in leeds with an iPod...thats it. Got some amazing reactions from some people in McDonalds but most think it is a phone lol!

[CanaMacPod]

It's a pretty funky phone.:)

[michaelbeno]

Originally posted by AptMunich
Billy posted it sometime on the official smashing pumpkins website message board, which is now unfortunatly closed...


it was soooo cool, he had this whole mystery thing going about the machina story and websites such as


www.smashthesystem.org

and a couple of others with really bizarre stuff!!


Now www.smashingpumpkins.com only takes you to the zwan website! :(

i've seen billy around town several times and he's always toting the pod. i heard he has a 20GB 2G. next time i see him, i'll have to brag by showing him my 30.

[Impulse29]

you have to go hunting for iPod's where I live... they are a rare find.

[trix]

i've never seen anyone with an iPod here, except for my brother, he has a 2nd generation 20 gig iPod. I've seen people take pics (on this site) of people and their iPods infront of the Kuwait Towers (i live in Kuwait) but I havent seen them in person.

[madricka]

Recently reading the Barenaked Ladies' Blog (http://www.bnlblog.com/) & they talk about loving their iPods (and Apple computers). Of course, cool people have cool toys.

[CanaMacPod]

I see myself with iPod.

[iamaustin]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail76.html Theres an ipod in there :-D

[Pocketmind]

I've seen a couple people around campus with them on and once I really embarassed myself in psych class when I saw a white "ipod" looking object strapped onto my profs belt, and I asked out of the blue. "Sir, is that an ipod?" he replied, "a what?" "the white thing on your belt, is that an ipod sir?"
"son, one, i'm a diabetic and this is an insulen pump, and two, you need to mind your own business. Now, if we don't have any more questions lets get back to Freud." The next day I showed him my ipod and he clearly saw how i could make the mistake, I may have even convinced him to purchase one for himself.

[ZoidbergD]

Originally posted by Pocketmind
I've seen a couple people around campus with them on and once I really embarassed myself in psych class when I saw a white "ipod" looking object strapped onto my profs belt, and I asked out of the blue. "Sir, is that an ipod?" he replied, "a what?" "the white thing on your belt, is that an ipod sir?"
"son, one, i'm a diabetic and this is an insulen pump, and two, you need to mind your own business. Now, if we don't have any more questions lets get back to Freud." The next day I showed him my ipod and he clearly saw how i could make the mistake, I may have even convinced him to purchase one for himself.

Oh my. :D That is very funny, but I feel bad for laughing...

[torchedlh]

i see a tall handsome man with an ipod walking by in my mirror every so often....o wait, that's me!:D

[ZoidbergD]

I'm afraid you deserve a :rolleyes:. :D

[Wu_Tang]

lets put it this way

I had never seen an iPod in real life until mine arrived today (I saw the box, but never actually seen/held an actual iPod)

[mongoos150]

Originally posted by Wu_Tang
lets put it this way

I had never seen an iPod in real life until mine arrived today (I saw the box, but never actually seen/held an actual iPod)

Wow...don't get out much, do ya?! I wouldn't say I see them all the time, but I do see a fair amount (Tucson, AZ)

[iamaustin]

But its just not the same as having your own

[loki102]

i still haven't seen one at my university (besides mine)

[mongoos150]

Originally posted by loki102
i still haven't seen one at my university (besides mine)

Really? I see tons at my university - The University of Arizona.

[loki102]

Originally posted by mongoos150
Really? I see tons at my university - The University of Arizona.

yeah, i kind of wonder about the lack of them:confused:, its not like its a really small university or anything, we have about 40,000 students (University of Central Florida in Orlando)

[SunByrne]

I'm university faculty at Rice and, besides mine, I've seen several around campus, including on my own graduate students. :)

[anenli]

I have never seen anyone else with an iPod. I wear my iPod shirt that I got from the release party at the Apple store and people ask me what an iPod is. Sad really. But then again, I do live in a town full of hicks who probably don't know better. A friend of mine claims that she has one, but doesn't know how to use it... hmmm...

[CanaMacPod]

She doesn't know how to use it? Talk about hick!

[ZoidbergD]

Originally posted by CanaWinPod
She doesn't know how to use it? Talk about hick!

That was kind of mean, even though a 5-year can figure out an iPod...

[red_420]

I haven't seen anyone else with an iPod so far, but I get a lot of attention over mine, especially at work. I just bought my 3G 15GB unit 2 weeks ago. One person quite a bit younger than I said she "felt old" after seeing my iPod because she was totally out of touch with current technology and "had no idea they could make something like that".

My company's IT person cornered me the other day just so I would show it to him, and commented "hey you're an Apple user now... did you also by a VW bus or a tie-die shirt or something?"

[ATCer]

Ive seen a few up here at UND... Just usualy give the "iPod Nod" and go on my way.

[bsodmike]

I've yet to see an iPod user in Sri Lanka. I'm pretty much sure I'm the 1st Gen 3 user here LOL. Still if others have it, whoooooo!....but I highly doubt it. I've also gotten a lot of attension over it. People think its a mobile phone. The bank manager at the NatWest branch in Leeds, UK thought it was a 'new mobile' and I was like 'um its an iPod, I can store like 13.9gigs of songs and thats close to 2000+' and he was like 'woah...'

The first iPod I've ever seen it real life is my m8's (www.clanltd.net - drtom/elizadusku) and one other person in Leeds who did not 'love' their pod enuff to buy a decent case for it!!

[ZoidbergD]

Originally posted by red_420
"hey you're an Apple user now... did you also by a VW bus or a tie-die shirt or something?"

Wow...your IT guy is beyond ignorant. He is just stupid. Idiot.:rolleyes:

[jasperstory]

i say some kid at the airport with a 1st gen or something... so i decided to kinda flash my 3rd gen in his face which he wasnt very impressed with////

he he he he :)

[AptMunich]

I was forced to watch the mind-numbing film legally blonde 2 yesterday...


The best bit:

She's talking to her friend the doorman when he sheepishly hands over her pink, diamond-covered 1st generation ipod...


Very cool..,. ;)

[madricka]

Last night I was working backstage at the Iron Maiden concert here in TO... one of the production guys had a 30GB iPod which he claimed he "couldn't live without". We raved at eachother about how incredible iPods were. It was a bonding moment. :)

I also saw an iPod in the dressing room of David Gahan's band a few days ago.

They're everywhere! :)

-- tina

[lilteyang]

you'd think we have a lot of Ipods around here, what with my town being the location of the headquarter of Apple.... but I've only seen ONE ipod outside of Apple stores ever, and that was a first gen... when my 15gb arrive it'll be the first one among my friends, who all say they'd feel a lot of pressure walking around with something so expensive everyday.... I can imagine their drooling face filled with jealousy, especially the one with the jukebox Zen....

[armless]

Originally posted by lilteyang
I can imagine their drooling face filled with jealousy, especially the one with the jukebox Zen....

amen

[dfg59]

At my office where I'm interning this summer, I know that at least 2 other people have iPods. One 2nd gen and one 3rd gen. It's a software company, so that doesn't surprise me. Back at school, I had a kid in one of my classes who came in with the earbuds on every day. I was so jelous...but now I have a 3rd gen, ehehehe...

[DJ Hyp3rion]

I spotted one...it was about 2 feet from me, in a box-- No wait, that's mine! Thanks mom!
lol...
:D

[WOPR]

I always think 'why not wear a t-shirt saying "steal my ipod now!"', or 'why don't you buy some decent headphones?'

[spksmom]

I have yet to see any iPod but my own. (It was hearing about my big brother's iPod that set me to drooling, leading him to buy me one for a present, but I never actually *saw* his.) I suspect it's the circles I travel in. Makes me think I should look for some new circles.

Meanwhile, I show *my* Ipod to anyone who will look. And the other day my dentist saw me sitting with it in the waiting room and said, "Is that an iPod? I was looking at those the other day." I keep waiting for some cool guy to spot mine and say, "cool, an iPod" but that has yet to happen.

By the way: DJ Hyp3rion, you have a cool Mom!

[spksmom]

So, the day after that last post I saw my first iPod, carried by a young man in a used book store. I got all excited and said to my son, "that's the first other one I've seen!" I think the guy thought I was nuts.

[ginalee]

spksmom I know the feeling of seeing only your own pod.

I have really never seen anyone else with one (even though all my friends think it's cool) and I am embarassed to think how I would react if I did cos once I got excited when I unexpectedly saw iPod boxes in a storefront.

Can you believe this?

[spksmom]

ginalee, yes, I can believe it. I feel kind of silly with how excited I've gotten over this little device. I would think that anyone who loves music and can afford one would have one. But then we wouldn't feel like part of some elite, huh?

[loki102]

i've only seen one other but it did make me all excited and inspired me to go strike up a conversation with the person, she looked at me kind of funny at first but we ended up having about a 15 min. conversation about stuff and ipod's, unfortunately i've never seen her again.... sigh

[DJ Hyp3rion]

spksmom, it was my birthday that day. :D Oh yeah, I saw quite a few when I went to the Apple Store today. About 3 employees all had iPods. I dunno if it was for kind of some pseudo-advertisement for them, or they actually owned it, but they had them clipped to their belts.

spksmom, you feel silly? I was running around jumping on the 3rd street promenade right after I got my iPod. My friends must've thought I was crazy for that reaction to 'just an mp3 player'...lol. The ride home was one of the longest waits in my life. Seriously.

[jstn4102]

I've had my 15 gb 3rd gen ipod for about a little over a month now. I have a beagle named aki, and like all beagles she needs to be walked once a ngiht. SO i usually go out around 10 pm and start jogging with my ipod. One night, when i was joggig with aki, i see an extremely hot, nicely shaped female figure also with a beagle jogging towards my direction. As we jogged nearer, our dogs gained sight of each other and they stopped to ..ahem... "sniff" each other lol. While we were entagled with our leashes, she looked into my eyes, then at my ears which had little white earbuds embedded in them. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out a 3rg gen ipod as well! She pressed pause and the four red buttons and the whitish/blue lcd came on. Man deos it look cool at night. She asked what my dog's name was, then she told me her name was jessica. And tonight i am meeting her at a Japanese Restaraunt for our 5th date!

[vanillamike]

Wow that is an iPod love connection, what a cool story, good luck with it.

Mike

[DJ Hyp3rion]

I gotta try that sometime. Wait, let me get a dog, first. :D LOL

[jstn4102]

Thats why i love my dog! cause if i owned a cat, i wuoldnt be able to walk it and pick up girls!

[sammybaby]

Originally posted by red_420
My company's IT person cornered me the other day just so I would show it to him, and commented "hey you're an Apple user now... did you also by a VW bus or a tie-die shirt or something?"

I think the only possible response to that question is, "No, I haven't had time, what with all the chicks I've had to fend off."

[jstn4102]

exactly, I think that is the only downside to the ipod. Somehow apple has managed to use some voodoo magic which attracts hot women to it. I admit that at first i loved this, but now i feel like i need more protection than the mace a carry around in my pocket to drive off these possessed beauties.

Oh here is another one of my ipod stories:

I was on at Goldengate Park in San Francisco and there was a local comedian performing on stage. I was standing next to a really hot girl on one side, and on the other side of her was some ignorant middle-aged fool. To impress the hot girl next to me, he pulled out his dinky rio mp3 player and started "teaching" her about today's latest technology ad about the future of portable music. I couldnt help but stare with a sense of pity for this fool and he looked at me and said "hey buddy what are u listening to? a portable tape player?" (at the time i had on cheap street style headphones cause i was running in the park earlier that day) and to answer his question, i pulled out my sleek 15 Gb ipod out of the perfect black case. I then turned on the white/blue backlight and said, "no, i'm listening to my 15 GB ipod." Normally, even the most a dim-witted fool knows when he's been told up, but this fool was an exception. He said sometign that really ####ed me off. he looked at the ipod, shrugged, and said "wouldn't buy anyof that apple crap if you paid me." I then shrugged and said, " wouldn't want you white trash owning one anyway, taints the image" The hot girl, who i later found out was named wendy, pulled out an old school 20 gb and said "i couldnt agree with you more" smiled at me, and we walked away together.

[CanaMacPod]

That's a great story jstn, have you seen that girl again? ;)

[jstn4102]

yeah, wendy is pretty cool and we hit it off. The other girl i met with my dog aki however, did not turn out to be quite so cool.

[blupixelz]

:) I go to Cal Poly Pomona, and I haven't seen any iPods around here.

[jstn4102]

then you're not lookng in the right places! ipods are everywhere, yet they are enough of a rarity that i still find people staring in awe lol. You wont see them if you go to a bar or areas like that. I find that i spot the most "podders" in trains, BART, and i saw a lot in the Sony's San Francisco Metrion. I see a lot of people jogging out in parks with the white earbuds on and i've even seen a few on planes.

[rextrade]

I see about ten a day on the NY subways and streets. BTW, the ipod was the only thing that kept me sane during the blackout.

[jstn4102]

yeah i can imagine, i can't live without my music much less my ipod lol. I am an ipoholic. It took me awhile to admit that to myself though. At first i would deny my addiction saying "i can live without the ipod". But as my addiction got worse, i saw the people who loved me start to worry. I am now recovering, slowly but surely. I dont turn on the backlight at night and stare at my ipod for hours anymore, but i still put the ipod in the lock position and spin my thumb around the touchpad. Sometimes, i'll see my mother crying when she sees me polish my ipod with my custom-made cleaning solution. My psychiatrist started to worry after i punched a guy for sneezing in the direction of my ipod. I know that I ipoholism is a disease, and that i am not alone. Though it is easy to lose hope, i can find sanity and security when i talk to my fellow ipodders in this forum ;)

[CanaMacPod]

10 a day? Wow!

[jstn4102]

AFI
This Celluoid Dream ; Dancing Through Sunday
Audioslave
Like a Rock; Cochise
Audiovent
Beautiful Addiction; The Energy
Chevelle
Send THe Pain Below; The Red; Closure
Coldplay
The Scientist; In My Place
Disturbed
Meaning of Life
Dynamite Hack
Boys in the Hood; Anyway
Filter
Where Do We Go From Here?
Finch
What It Is To Burn; Letters To You; Three Simple Words
Foo Fighters
Learn To Fly; All My Life; My Hero
Fountains of wayne
Stacy's Mom; Radiation Vibe
Fuel
Bad Day; Shimmer
Goo Goo Dolls
Come On; Here Is Gone; Name
Green Day
Good Riddance; Macy's Day Parade; Church On Sunday
Incubus
Warning
Injected
Faithless
Jane's Addiction
Just Beacause
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American; Praise Chorus; Sweetness; Your House
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I Am A Rock; I Belive I Can Fly
Midtown
Easy Way Out; Like A Movie
MXPX
GSF; Doing Time; My Life Story
Nine Days
Story Of A Girl
No use For A Name
Chasing Rainbows; Dumb Reminders; Redemption Song
Rooney
The Blue Side
Saves The Day
At Your Funeral; Hold; Third Engine
Seether
Fine Again; Broken
Staind
Fray; Layne; So Far Away; Zoe Jane
Starting Line
Best Of Me; Left Coast Envy; Greg's Last Day
Sublime
Caress Me Down; Date Rape; What I Got; Badfish; Gin and Juice
Sugarcult
You're The One; Hate Every Beautiful Day; Pretty Girl; I Changed My Name
Taking Back Sunday
Cute Without THe "E"; Timberwolves In New Jersey
Taproot
Poem
The Alkaline Trio
Radio; We've Had Enough
The All-American Rejects
Don't Leave Me; Drive Away; Last Song; Your Star
The Ataris
My So Called Life; Boys Of Summer; In This Diary
The Hives
Hate To Say I Told You So
The Offspring
A Million Miles Away; Bad Habit; Heaven's So Far Away; Nitro; Original Prankster; Pretty Fly; Staring At The Sun; The Kids Aren't Alright
The Red Hot Chile Peppers
Aeroplane; By The Way; Californication; Can't Stop; Dosed; My Friends; Otherside; The Zephyr Song; Under The Bridge
The Transplants
Diamonds And Guns
The Used
A Boc Full of Sharp Objects; Blue and Yellow; Buried Myself Alive; Poetic Tragedy; The Taste of Ink
The Vines
Get Free
The White Stripes
Hardest Button To Button; Seven Naton Army
Thrice
All Eyes; Send Me An Angel; Trust
Thursday
Autobiography of A Nation; The Dream; Understanding In a Car Crash
Tonic
If You Could Only See
Trapt
Echo; Enigma; Made of Glass; New Beginning; Still Frame; Stories; These Walls; When All Is Said and Done
Vendetta Red
Shatterday
Weezer
Holiday; Island In The Sun; Smile; The Good Life; Undon(The Sweater Song)

[jstn4102]

lol just a few song suggestions lol

[CanaMacPod]

Thanks for that man, but you probably should have put that post somewhere else. Just a friendly suggestion.

[jstn4102]

lol your welcome. I notice that your the proud owner of "justipod" is your name justin as well?

A guy walks into a bar...and it hurt!

A man is scuba diving in austrailia. He has all the equipment to keep him safe underwater: the airtank, mask, wetsuit the whole 9 yards. Hes about 10 feet underwater and he sees another man without any equipment at all, just in plain clothes. The scuba diver goes down about 20 feet and a few second later he is joined by the same man. "this guy must be a proffesional if he can stay under this long," he thought to himself. The diver goes down even further and is about 40 feet underwater. About a minute later, the same man joins him at the same depth. "amazing!" the diver thiks to himself. He then pulls out a water-proof chalkboard and writes "how the hell do u stay down here so long?!?" the man grabs the piece of chalk, erases teh board and writes "i'm drowning you moron".

[CanaMacPod]

Yes, I am the great Justinian!
Just kidding, but it is the best name there is.

[jstn4102]

Its funny that you mention the name justinian, because that is where the name "justin" originates. As a fellow justin, i must admit that i am happy to see another justin owning an ipod. The right kind of people will always have the right kind of taste and style. What kind of ipod do you own justin?

[CanaMacPod]

Same as you, Justin. ;)

Check out justin.com

[jstn4102]

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[jstn4102]

hmmm lol it doesnt look right after i posted... oh well

[Kenner]

the first day I brought my ipod to school I saw another student with the ipod buds, guess he just got the 10GB.

[vanillamike]

Hey not a traditional in person iPod sighting but I just saw one in a Zellers advertisment for a clothing designer, Mossimo. It's right near the start, funny how I actually look forward to that ad now heh. The Digable Planets tune in the background is a throw back as well. I'm cool like dat!!

Mike

[slystad810]

The new Mary J Blige video has her playing the song on a new iPod in the beginning.

[CanaMacPod]

Can i find that vid online?

[aswimmer94563]

i see them at swim meets all the time. they're perfect for long waits with the ipod's long battery and thousands of songs

[jogloran]

I spotted my first iPod yesterday in the city (Sydney): a guy walked past with the white buds in his ears. At first I thought... "Nah, probably just someone with white earphones." Then I saw the uncomfortable looking cheap black foam thingies that come with them: of course!

[bluejameso]

I often see people on the tube with the white earphones. Obviously I don't give them the time of day as the Apple 'phones are total parp. Why compromise such a great machine? Furthermore, why make yourself an obvious target for the ubiquitous smackheads prevalent in central London?

Peas out.

[jogloran]

Said smackheads probably wouldn't place too much emphasis on the colour of your earphones ;)
And surely you've got to agree that compared to some of the included earphones with other similar products, they're not that bad...

[Chodite]

i saw a dude on the bus here in Philly yesterday with the white buds in his ears... i just kinda gave him 'the nod' and a smile.

[kelvin38]

first time bringing out my 2nd gen ipod. Saw a guy on the TTC (Toronto Transit system) with a 3rd gen ipod. :D

[jeremyim]

i live in chicago and i see them everywhere...all over school, all over downtown, on public transportation, people sporting the white ear buds just walking down the street, people fidgeting with the silver wired remote, and when all else fails i'll pick up a magazine or turn on the tv and there is either an add or an article about them...EVERYWHERE

[Becca]

I'm in the Detroit area...and (sad to say) I've not seen another podder. I'm sure they're around somehwere, but haven't seen 'em.

I use mine regularly - in the car, at home (actually in place of my stereo in my bedroom) and at the office and can't see how any true music lover could do without something this great. :-P

[mongoos150]

Update-
Here in Tucson, AZ everyone has an iPod. Many people at my church have one, a whole bunch of kids at my high school have one, and everyone at the U (University of Arizona) has one. It's crazy...

[yinyang]

Originally posted by jogloran
I spotted my first iPod yesterday in the city (Sydney): a guy walked past with the white buds in his ears. At first I thought... "Nah, probably just someone with white earphones." Then I saw the uncomfortable looking cheap black foam thingies that come with them: of course!

well over in the western suburbs there are none bar mine LOL! but i would be very surprised to see any over this side of town :)

i look forward to the day i 'meet' another iPodder, wherever it ends up being...!

[slystad810]

Hey Becca, I'm in Warren... I haven't seen any other iPodders except at the Apple Store. A lot of people ask me about it at college though.

[Roadkill]

Hey slystad810 and Becca, I'm in white lake. I've only seen an Ipod ONCE in person, it was a skate shop in farmington, I was telling my friends about them and the shop owner pulls his 2nd gen out and lets me hold it. I was in awe! I hope to soon be able to hold my very OWN Ipod.

[jaclyn]

I've spotted a kid in my art history class (Art Institute of Phonix) listening to white earbuds. That's the only sighting I've had in real life, though.

But, I do know that those three kids that act as the main characters in the Harry Potter movies all have iPods. :) I was reading some interview with all of them, and the interview asked their favorite gadget, and they all said iPod.

[yinyang]

agent bristow aka jennifer garner (in alias) listens to one as she jogs to see her mum in a high security CIA location - wonder what she listens to, and why she doesn't have a case for it - she just holds it in her hand!?

[Kenner]

Hey jaclyn, I go to AiPX too. Probably not the guy from your art class, but I wander around with my iPod around too.
There's a lot of people at school that has iPods, i know about 4 other people in class with them.

[KariChelle]

I only know of one other person here who has one, but there *must* be some others because Circuit City just can't seem to keep them on the shelves. I've never seen anyone else with one, but I've gotten quite a few, "Cool, is that an iPod?" and "Hey, that's that thing 50 Cent had in his video!" LOL

[almond]

I've only seen one ipod around here and it wasn't a new one. The owner was like "dude is that the new one?" and i was like "yeah" and then there was some awkward silence as he stared at mine.


yay my first post. hi

[almond]

I saw one on the OC last night if anyone watches that show. The main character was listening to it. I couldn't tell which gen it was tho.

[RaoulDuke]

I have seen a few guys using iPods in my city in Germany. For example I saw one guy walking with his iPod downtown when I didn't have my Pod with me.
Another time I saw a guy from a neighboring school who owned an iPod, I saw his white headphones *g*.

I knew lots of people who use iPods, for example a teacher of mine, who uses a 30gig iPod, a friend of mine who uses a 2nd Gen 10GB iPod and another friend of mine who recently got my good old 5gig iPod, and not to forget: Me :D

When I was in London a few months ago I saw a guy with a Creative Zen in the Underground... that player looks crappy imho :rolleyes: ...

[KariChelle]

Maybe the reason why I don't see any is because I live in an area that is basically dead to Apple...everybody here is either all-PC or knows absolutely nothing about computers and either can't afford or is afraid to own one.

The only other person I know of here that owns one is a fellow member of the Mac User Group.

But there has to be SOMEBODY who's buying everything at Circuit City...

[jamester]

The only other non-family sighting of an iPod in the wild (ie: not at the Apple Store) I've had is at church - one of the kids that goes there has one, as she just got an iBook and an iPod. I ran into her and her family at the Apple Store a week or two ago, and last Sunday she proudly showed me her new iPod. :) I love it when others catch the fever. :)

[kampy1971]

There are two other people in my office who have older iPods (I work in an architecture firm) and I've seen a few on the Strand (bike/skate path) along the beach, and a few up on the ski slopes - especially in the terrain parks.

I'm sure there are a lot more iPodders around than any of us realize... most people (like myself) keep them securely tucked away when they're out and about

[Carrot]

keep them securely tucked away when they're out and about
it all depends on where you live, i guess. i wouldn't dare walking around the city showing of the my ipott in some areas!!!

i mostly see iPods with the younger crowd on airplanes, jammed in the tourist class. ;)

[MrCheese]

Never seen anyone with an iPod here. That's because the iPod is sold here (IsraHell) in only one store and it's sold at 70% more than it's real price. (dollars converted to israeli money) Although some people (around 10, LOL) should have it.

[braves_01]

Today, for the first time outside my own home or the local Apple store, I saw a fellow iPodder. He had a 10 GB, 2nd Gen iPod. Everyone around was checking it out, asking questions about it, etc. when someone started going on and on about his Archos which he claimed to be "superior" to the iPod. I almost died laughing.

[Lemmiwinks]

I've never seen one in real life, only on MTV in 50-Cent's Video. I usually don't buy anything I haven't seen before but I made an exception when I ordered mine (last night!)

[XiXora]

right i've seen ipod headphones in college!!!
a guy in my music tech lesson has them. i spotted the earbuds then the odd way it splits the 2 wires into one. so i'm sure he has an ipod... just need to see what ipod he has.

I have 2 ipods atm. a 30 and 40 gig. ( sending the 30gb back to john lewis now though )
with 7068 tracks on it finally ( media center is great ) xplay had some prob lems ( would let me put one album and see it but when i synched all my tracks itd show nothing on the ipod but it is there. and it was also constantly freezing. so 2 formats later i'm synchingit with media center 9.1 and hopefully it'll be ok. ( just finishing syncing ( on 1600 track going at 25mb/s ) so all tracks on woo

[Carrot]

bwuahahaha!

i just recieved a "ipod, huh?!" in target from some youth working there.
the poor guy had bought his 15gb 2 days before the 30gb came out...

and that in a town of 12000 ppl. who'd have thought?!

[jstn4102]

15gb 2 days before the 30 came out....what are you talking about dude.

[ToddW]

i saw some wierd guy in the grocery store the other day with one. he was looking pretty wierd! i saw this one chick with an awesome bod with a pod.

[SpideyPod]

In NYC where you can see just about anything anyway you won't have a tough time finding a fellow Podder. Easiest way is looking for the white earbuds. But there are just as many attahced to belt clips.
I would give them a nod but in NY sometimes that can be taken the wrong way.........................

[spksmom]

I've still only see 2 iPods "in the wild", but an Apple store just opened near me. It was so weird to see a dozen iPods sitting in their docks scattered around the store! It was the most I'd ever seen.

[SpideyPod]

Just spotted a 'Pod on NBC's half hour comedy 'Scrubs'.

[jstn4102]

seth from the FOX show "The O.C." Owns an oldschool ipod.

[bigman606]

John Carter owns an iPod on tonights 10/2/03 episode of E.R. Explains that it's his 'digital music player'.

[CanaMacPod]

I saw my first 'Pod a couple days ago. I noticed the white earplugs on my Dad's friend. I'd heard he had an iPod before, but that was the first time I'd actually seen it. Pretty cool.

[EnderWiggin]

i've only seen two other peeps with ipods, but one wasn't a fellow ipodder since i didn't have one at the time, but that helped me get more interested in one. i talked to him for a few minutes about it, looked into it some more myself and now an ipodder myself.

the only other person i saw with one i paused and smiled. i won't disturb someone enjoy their ipod so i continued on my way.

[iPodTallica]

For anyone who knows who Jhonen Vasquez is (popular underground comic book artist), he's got an iPod. I saw him with the white earbuds in at a convention.

[willxx]

Hello all My first post in the lounge,

Did anyone notice on the opening night of the NFL season "Jets V Redskins" one of the Jet players was wearing an iPod at the midfield
area while warming up pre game?

[iPodTallica]

on homestarrunner.com, the strongbad email called "sibbie" has a character wearing an iPod

[kaeso_7]

Maybe there aren't any other iPods in south-west missouri, but I've never seen another in real life.

(As opposed to fake life.)

[jstn4102]

cool

[jogloran]

I've seen a lot more iPods in Sydney now: I saw two, two days in a row a few days ago actually... One with it sitting there on the aisle seat on a CityRail train :D Not recommended...

[yinyang]

i'm still waiting to see another iPod in sydney outside an apple shop. think i need to catch public transport a bit more often lol : )

[willc]

A picture of Will Greenwood (England rugby player) returning from the rugby world cup in Oz to see his pregnant wife on the back of the Evening Standard (Londons local paper) withy pod in hand. Can't believe he's got no case on it!
Will

[franson14]

I've seen one at Noahs Ark (a waterpark) in WI. It was about a year ago when I didn't have mine. I thought it was really really cool, although I probably wouldn't bring my iPod INTO a water park...

[jiggles]

are there any ipoders out there in the rest of the himalayas? am i the only one in nepal? it's so cold and lonely here at night. and my hot red exo skin lays lonely in the laliguras. btw, i'm m, s, 37, and like all kinds of music and have room in my ipod for one more.
contact me here.
jiggy

[CanaMacPod]

I saw the white earbud cords dangling from some guys ears at a grocery store.

[monkedsel]

I've seen a few at school (Art Institute of Pittsburgh). This girl in my Packaging Design class had a new 15GB 3G and was showing it off. I couldn't believe how nice it was, I didn't want to hand it back to her. Then this guy pulled out his larger 1G and the girl exclaimed "Oh my God it's huge!" His had a broken (as in missing) scroll wheel, he just kept it to use as a portable hard drive. Where else... a girl in my English class had one (she kept it in a leather case, but I'm pretty sure it was 1 or 2G), a dude in my Biology class had one (1G, which he would leave sitting on his desk while he went down to the lounge for hours at a time, unbelieveable), and once I saw one while someone was plugging it in to the firewire port on the back of a Mac in a lab. The only one I've seen outside of school is mine, a 20GB 3G which I got last Monday. When I got off the bus the other day, I was holding it in my hand at eye level to someone who was sitting near the door, and as he looked at it you could just *feel* the envy, he knew exactly what it was. Fabulous. Petty, but fabulous. :P

[jonmon]

I see a few people walking around with white earbuds on my campus (U of T downtown Toronto). You would never know if I have an iPod since I don't use the white earphone and keep the pod in my pocket. The earbuds are so recognizable that I would get robbed in my neighbourhood or on the TTC! :eek:

[altcountryman]

I see a few around downtown Madison, WI. Mostly students. Saw several of them on all types of people on a recent trip to NYC. In fact, my wife & I were chatting with a guy at the hotel who had one (an old school model), told him we were thinking about getting one, and his friend pulled her brand new Pod out of her purse and said "Stop thinking about it! Just get one!"

[MonkeyMan9700]

lol nocomment (jk) i dont see them all over the place

[DJ Hyp3rion]

Thought I was the only one at my school. Was walking around campus when I got another one of the "WOW is that an iPod?!?!" questions.
"Yeah."
"Hey, I got one too! Here check it out!"
Turns out he was a 2Gen iPodder.

And, awhile back, I was getting my iPod for my birthday. I'm all excited and everything, because I'm like...first of my friends to get one. So one of my friends I invited to my party decides to show off something to me...his brand new 3G iPod he got a week ago. And I thought I was gonna be the first. Ack! lol

So yeah...that's 3 ppl in my school I counted. And one of my friends (A PC -> Mac convert...saw my iBook and was switched, lol) is setting his sights on one too.

[ROMZ]

dude how f***ing cool is this whole iPod ownership 733T thing

emphasis on f***ing cool

btw heya all Sydney-sider iPodders

hope i get a chance to give the iPod nod to ya sum day

iPodders are f**ing 733T yo

[saqib]

Originally posted by jonmon
I see a few people walking around with white earbuds on my campus (U of T downtown Toronto). You would never know if I have an iPod since I don't use the white earphone and keep the pod in my pocket. The earbuds are so recognizable that I would get robbed in my neighbourhood or on the TTC! :eek:

this probably the main reason i keep my ipod hidden away, and dont use white ear buds.

In london if you own anything over ?100 and it can easily be stolen from your person its fair game to the guys out on the streets.

BUT the iPod in particular is very attractive, compared to mobile phones etc, its:
A. Worth More.
B. Can't be blacklisted like a mobile phone.
C. is VERY desireable amongst "ghetto" kids since its been featuerd in many music videos; i.e P.I.M.P by 50 cents.

[deftdrummer1]

yeah and pdiddy i think used one recently

[kikzen]

Originally posted by saqib
In london if you own anything over ?100 and it can easily be stolen from your person its fair game to the guys out on the streets.

if you go into The City, though, you'll see lots of business folk with the white earphones and the remote hanging out.

[Nicholas]

Originally posted by saqib
C. is VERY desireable amongst "ghetto" kids since its been featuerd in many music videos; i.e P.I.M.P by 50 cents.

Ya thats very true. This guy at my school saw mine and asked if he could see it. I wouldnt let him so after school he almost jumped me but my friends stopped him. lol

[saqib]

Originally posted by kikzen
if you go into The City, though, you'll see lots of business folk with the white earphones and the remote hanging out.


The "City of London" is a black hole when it comes to the "common or garden" street hoodlem. Its full of businessman in suits and contractors in hard hats, so they'd stick out like a sore thumb. Plus the "City of London" is probably the most policed area in the metropol. They EVEN have they're own police force.

Street hoodlums are much more likely to find easier pickings amongst the rich school kids and the west end full of rich tourists and media type ### holes.

[kikzen]

precisely my point

[CanaMacPod]

I saw a guy with the white earphones in line at the grocery store where I work.

[tariq]

Spotted my first iPod (other than mine) today. About time too, I'm suprised I haven't seen more on the TTC or GO here in Toronto. The guy was exiting the downtown office buiilding I work at and I was about to nod or somethin, but then decided not too heh.

[iMal]

well I've never seen anyone with an iPod in Austria and they've only just started selling them at a nationwide electronics store chain. So I will definitely be one of the chosen few this side of the Danube when I get mine TOMORROW!!!!!!!



Danube? Doesn't that run through Graz? Forgive me if I'm wrong, I havn't been to Austria since I visited with a friend for a month two years ago in graz. also saw salzburg and wien though.

[LightsOn]

Spotted one today getting off the train wearing an asphalt exo.

[Doug Gilmour]

Theres around 9 or 10 people in my school with an iPod. Tariq where in Toronto are you from? Downtown near Union or King?

[CanaMacPod]

I saw an iPod at Future Shop.

[Mr94Supra]

Originally posted by Marre
Me neither... :(

I second that! Until I get mine Tuesday!!! That is if CC gets a shipment of the 40 Giggers in. I'll be the first at my job and will retain my title as top geek at work!!:D

[Bethany]

The only time I saw an iPod other than my own was when my boss came in with a 20 gb last summer. Another co-worker of mine has one, too. I've never seen anyone around school with one, though.

It wouldn't be easy to spot me with an iPod--I don't use the apple headphones and I keep it in my purse.

[evaD715]

I'm in school in Philly, PA...my sub college of the university is a college of media arts and design so most of the fields are using macs in and out of the classroom. We get a deal with the UPenn computer store where if we buy a printer and an 10GB iPod with our mac laptop/desktop they give us a refund for 300 dollars which is the equivalent of a free iPod. Soooo most kids in my college have them...I felt like a minority not having one...I'll be buying myself a Powerbook this summer coming up and I'll already be equipped with an iPod! I see kids with the distinctive iPod "buds" on in my Design and Drawing classes while working on projects...I will be joining them now. :)

[archerychick88]

i'm a freshman in high school.... and there's 3 ppl with iPods (not including myself). all of em are 3rd gen. one 10gb, and two 20gb ones. awsome.

[alecteefer]

I have never seen someone with one at FSU or in Tallahassee at all. That's why I am excited to have mine. I'll be the coolest kid in school.

It's all about image ...

JK. It's all about music all the time. I have big plans for me and my iPod. Big plans ...

[huxleyp]

Originally posted by torchedlh
i see a tall handsome man with an ipod walking by in my mirror every so often....o wait, that's me!:D

Ha ha very funny, and extremely modest!

[Blank]

I have never seen anyone with an iPod. :confused: I have only seen it in real life at a store, and it was just a display model that was not powered (it was engraved on the back with "For Display Only"). :( However, I still fell in love with its style, and I have used it in animations, proving it's ease of use. :D

When I go to New York City (50 miles south of here), I plan to see LOTS of white earbuds pumpin' some good music. :)

[oleg11]

I have never seen one at my skool. but one time when i was at the mall and me and my friends went to see a movie i saw a guy with white earbuds on so i followed him(this was before i got mine) and he thought i was stalking him so he ran away.

[steviep831]

The other night I was watching a show called Rides. Pretty cool show about cars being modified. Of course these people have lots of money, but a guy (probably an NFL footballer) came into a show with a Hummer H2 and wanted a sound system put in that would accomodate his iPod! I was like, holy cow! That's awesome! So anyways, that was the only iPodding I've seen and it wasn't even in realy life. Oh well. I thought it was cool.

[enjoilax]

Apparently my sister saw a Mini already, but i call BS on that.

I see em all around my campus

[Ipodic20]

Few people including me at the institute wear the white buds, some times when I am bored I start talking about the ipod with them while people go by with that: i don?t know what am I seeing, brain cannot process but that white thingy sure looks cool!!! wonder what it is!: lol yeah just picture the look. Any way to be exact there are about 4 including me, one is my friend! Tnx

[bognormike]

I was in London last weekend a i saw about 15 people with ipods during the day

[Sypher]

Considering what a small place Cambridge is, there's a suprising amount of people with iPods. I always see the white ear buds when I'm in town. At my school, there are about.. 6 people (that I know of) who also have iPods.

[podster]

I usually see them around the metro, but lately (after Christmas) there has been a rash of wanna-bes with their rip off pale/silvery headphones and cheesy USB mp3 stick players. :mad:

[SftballShorty22]

Ever since Christmas I have seen at least 30 people listening to their iPods or talking about them at school and in my town. Before Christmas I saw only maybe 5 people with them.

[Calculus]

Xmas has brought with it many iPoders. Is this a good or bad thing?
For the posers, it's bad.
For the music lovers, it's good.

Sadly, i think there are more pose-factor iPod owners than music loving iPod owners.

[podster]

Disney have recently started their spring campaign and plastered this billboard all over the metros of Paris. You can't see too well but the guy in the left hand corner with the cap on has those tell tale white earbuds in. Wonder what he's listening to...

[divine_nanny]

Here in Holland I have only seen one so far, in the train from Eindhoven to Utrecht. It was owned by a business man. I looked VERY jealous, kept standing up to get a good look.
In fact, I have only seen one other person with an iBook. I bring mine to school every day, so I get the looks too. The students here are more geared towards partying than gadgets it seems, and it seems to me that Holland (at least the south) is not a very Apple minded country.

Sara

[KidK]

i've seen 3 other then mine....1 2g one which i laughed at becuase mine was 3g and the guy with it was a total geek.....and 2 3g's which were both 10 gigs..also laughed at as mine is 20 :D

i saw em around school...for like a week i was the only one with an i pod (or so it would seem) and then they started springing up after christmas...it's pretty annoying...it's like somone driving up to school with the exact same car as you thats the exact same colour and parking right beside you and it turns out to be the biggest loser at school...and it's not a pontiac or anything like that which you'd expect to see other people with ..it's like a porsche 9-11 turbo ..that you thought you'd be the only person with one...

i've had this thing for over a month and some how people still come up to me and assk the how much , how much does it hold crap..and it's always the same people too ...it's getting to be extremely annoying...like sure driving a porsche would be wicked...but imagine all the people coming uup to you and asking stupid questions..and then throwing it right in your face by saying they think it's a total waste of money.....exactly...

Owning an iPod is like owning a Porsche

at least thats my take on it

[armless]

well its been a while since i last posted but in my school, iPods have been popping up everwhere. A TON of people have em. its really cool cuz mine is the only "black" ipod. i got it recently colorware'd

[SeaFoam]

Originally posted by armless
well its been a while since i last posted but in my school, iPods have been popping up everwhere. A TON of people have em. its really cool cuz mine is the only "black" ipod. i got it recently colorware'd
can you post a picture? i'd love to see what it looks like

[armless]

sure can, but my camera is in repair, i'll see what i can do

[smjr15]

There not 1 person at my college(TCAT in telford/uk) with a ipod

[Daraven]

I live in a tiny town in northern Indiana, and go to a relatively small campus (Indiana University South Bend), and aside from my boss's 40gig, mine's the only one around that I've seen.

[Bombadil]

I attend the University of Florida and I didn't notice them until I got mine, but now I see those crappy white earbuds everywhere.

[qpid]

I am tired of all the ipods I see around here (university of michigan) it almost makes me want to get an iriver or something just to be different, bu tI got such a good deal on my ipod, plus I love it to death.

On my bus (10 min) I see none. But I'm coming for a pretty low class neighborhood. But once I step off the bus, and go into work (3 min walk) I see at least 5 outside. Then inside the computer lab there's always at least a dozen or so around. Hell a guy just walked by with one one but at least he had black/silver headphones on.


sigh

[teski]

Originally posted by qpid
I am tired of all the ipods I see around here (university of michigan) it almost makes me want to get an iriver or something just to be different, bu tI got such a good deal on my ipod, plus I love it to death.



I don't get some of these quotes. Who cares how many people have them. Yes the iPod is sleek looking and popular, but I bought it because it was the best player out there for me, not for sheer coolness.

Teski

[teski]

Originally posted by Calculus
Xmas has brought with it many iPoders. Is this a good or bad thing?
For the posers, it's bad.
For the music lovers, it's good.

Sadly, i think there are more pose-factor iPod owners than music loving iPod owners.

This post cracks me up! Explain to me exactly what an iPod poser is? A poser, to me, is someone that mimics someone or something of a professional type status when they are really nothing special. An example is someone that goes out an buys all of the pro sports gear to match their favorite player and don't have the skill to back it up.

Don't know of any pro iPod people out there that I'd try to be like.

If you have the money, and the iPod is the right player for you, then it's the right thing.

Besides, do you really want less people owning the product?

Teski

[jaypod]

I could have sworn that I replied to this thread already.....hhhmmm? Oh well, I never see anyone where I live that has an iPod. It seems as though other fellow Canucks have them but noot where I am. I do get some strange looks when the Pod is out in the open.....most people think it is a cell phone or a PDA. When I explained to someone what it was last week she responded by saying, "Well, aren't you special". Pure jealousy. I love it.

[qpid]

Originally posted by teski
I don't get some of these quotes. Who cares how many people have them. Yes the iPod is sleek looking and popular, but I bought it because it was the best player out there for me, not for sheer coolness.

Teski

That's it, I didn't buy it because it was cool, I bought it because it was/is awesome and I got a helluva deal on it. However as a self-proclaimed geek, I don't like fitting in the social norm, the status quo. I like being different. If that is a crime then lock me and millions of others up. I just don't like seeing the little white buds everywhere.

[teski]

Originally posted by qpid
That's it, I didn't buy it because it was cool, I bought it because it was/is awesome and I got a helluva deal on it. However as a self-proclaimed geek, I don't like fitting in the social norm, the status quo. I like being different. If that is a crime then lock me and millions of others up. I just don't like seeing the little white buds everywhere.

:) I understand....I am a computer/tech geek myself and know where you're coming from, but as you say it's the product itself that sells the thing and if they were cr@p, then you'd see less of those white buds.

Teski

[Roadkill]

I've never seen an iPod on someone I didn't know, like just walking around somewhere. Only time I've ever seen an iPod that wasn't my mini was at a skateshop I go to often. The guy who was working showed me his 2g 20gb.

[Sypher]

A poser, to me, is someone that mimics someone or something of a professional type status when they are really nothing special. An example is someone that goes out an buys all of the pro sports gear to match their favorite player and don't have the skill to back it up.

Well.. in the UK (I assume you're from the US from your spelling of "favourite") a poser is someone who just shows off, cares about looking cool etc. And a lot of people do buy iPods for that cool factor.

[teski]

Originally posted by Sypher
Well.. in the UK (I assume you're from the US from your spelling of "favourite") a poser is someone who just shows off, cares about looking cool etc. And a lot of people do buy iPods for that cool factor.

Ya...From the US :). We have pretty much a similar understanding of the term. As for these people and their iPods, it doesn't bother me at all....I just think they're idiots if they dumped all that money just to be cool, but whatever floats their boat.

Teski

[slease]

lol, people dump more money on other less expensive things just to be cool. Designer purses for one, Any pair of sunglasses that costs more than 100.00 and isn't prescription... Shoes that cost more than 200.00 but were only made with a few dollars material.

I'm at the University of North Texas and have yet to spot anyone in our 30,000 students with an ipod. I'm sure they are out there though.

[Mouse999]

About every high schooler i see has one at my school. (im in secondary school) So sometimes ill share a moment with them, look at playlists, artists. ipoders are like brethren.

[thetabor]

The only person I have seen with pods are two of my teachers, both of which work at an apple retail store. I have when I go to the store cause I can bother them without getting in trouble! :p

[enjoilax]

Originally posted by Mouse999
About every high schooler i see has one at my school. (im in secondary school) So sometimes ill share a moment with them, look at playlists, artists. ipoders are like brethren.

Weirdo.

I do the same, but i just ask:

"what size?, What case and have you heard of ipodlounge.com?"

come to think of it, thats the same thing i ask the ladies...

[Mouse999]

hahaha...?

[Veasey]

i see ipods everywhere. I see them on the bus, walking on the street, biking. once when I was taking my school bus we were stopped at a stoplight and sure enough, there was this guy with an ipod right there outside my window. I pressed my ipod up against the window, and he nodded, took out his ipod and showed me his. It was funny

[DarthV]

I've only seen 2 around town so far...one of my bosses has an older one and a guy on the bus. I know there are more out there, went to buy one, for the instant gratification effect, at the univ bookstore but they had sold their last one in stock... So I ordered one from Apple's canadian educational discount store :) Might be here tomorrow!

[Roadkill]

I finally saw my first iPod other than my own and the one I saw about a year ago. I was showing some kids in my literature class my mini and then randomly this girl pulls out her 3g 10gb. Needless to say I was surprised and excited. FInally someone to share in the iPods awesomeness with.

[mshell]

Saw my first iPod (other than my own) today at the local Starbucks. Couldn't make out whether it was an iPod or iPod Mini, but I recognized the earbuds and he was obviously playing around with the wheel. :)

[R32_Nakazato]

I see them all the time in San Francisco. I went to the apple store here and it was like ipod fest 2004, so many people today. It seemed like everyone was there to get a case too. Took me forever to pick out my jam jacket!!

[misspinkipod]

mmm.... ppl in my school are pretty spoiled. lol, me to. so they usually either have the dell dj or the ipod. i am one of 2 ppl in my school though that i know who has a mini. but here is my town they are extremely popular and one may see fellow ipoders around all the time.

[iPotm]

Originally posted by Lazurus
I started dating a girl *gasp* because I noticed her pod.

It was a warm summer day, the sun was high in the sky and the air smelled sweet. She rolled past me, slowly, with two white earbuds and an ipod covered in an aqua blue Jam Jacket. Her eyes met mine as she began to stare at the large headphones resting on my head. She followed the cord below my waist to see none other then a bulge in my pants. Quizzicaly, she asked, "What kind of iPod?"


Somehow my mind wandered off at this point and tried to picture the *actual* dialogue from here:

girl: "What kind of iPod?"
you: "what?"
girl: "what?"
you: "what?"
girl: *removes earplugs* "what?"
you: *removes headphones* "what?"


awww.. :)

[icebergzz]

I live near Palo Alto and there are on average a person in all of my classes with an ipod. Ive been asking them what size they have and what they reccomend.(im trying to pick between 20 and 40)

[Shootingstar11]

I have only seen one ipod here and that was at the airport. The guy pulled it out, dropped it on the moving walkway and ran his suitecase over it. Didn't even have a case for it, poor ipod!

[Ryan1524]

i used to think my SlimX550 is good enough and i don't need to get an iPod - yet. but then i saw a girl pass by me with glistening white buds at school, and i just continued walking with a jackass of a smile on my face. then i got my pod.

on my recent trip downtown, i saw no less than 4 pods in the subways, and that was only in my car. some midget with a 3g and carbon Exo, some young college looking guy and girl, and some guy who looks like he's in his mid 30s with the pod in the standard case on his belt. and of course when i transferred at St. George station, the entire place was covered with iPod ads. billboard, wall, floor and pillars. LOL.

[iCanada]

See one every now and then on the skytrain or bus in Vancity.

[NothingFace]

Originally posted by Marre
Me neither... :(

Same here. I think it's either because of the price, or not enough people know about them. I instant messaged some of my friends on AIM and told them I just got a 15GB iPod, and they're like. Cool. What's that?

[graks]

have never seen anyone with a ipod, but then i live in a remote place of norway. i am sure i am the only one in my village with a ipod... ;)

[iPotm]

Originally posted by graks
have never seen anyone with a ipod, but then i live in a remote place of norway. i am sure i am the only one in my village with a ipod... ;)

or something that runs on batteries or that matter !

*baraboom*

sorry for the shameless joke, Norwegians rock. Remote villages in the netherlands are even worse lmao.

[yungindacity]

I think I live in the iPod capital of the world- New York. Everywhere I go I see an iPod- bus, train, walking around town. Sometimes I think somebody's listening to a walkman or something, because I don't see the white earphone, but they pull it out of their pocket and it's an iPod. I feel like I just joined some secret society of ipodders. Yeah, that was corny, but when you see someone else with an iPod you know that they have something in common with you.

[viewsonic]

I see around 5 people in my school who have them and use the white earbuds, I'm in high school so I guess not that many people can afford it.

[RiPpaGe]

ive seen probably 3-5 kids at my school with one, and thats it...i see em a lot on the mountain snowboarding too...at least one everytime im out

[mshell]

About four people at my school have iPods and STILL use the white earbuds. It's really odd, because last month I didn't see ANY.

[tiki_god]

me and one of my best friends are both ipodders! :D

[rlucas]

I have _YET_ to see someone in public with an iPod.

[bov]

yea, i see a lot of iPodders here in San Francisco.

[Shiby]

lol, well i live in sydney australia, i go to a high school of about 900, pretty much every one knows everyone, i was like the first person in my school to get an ipod, n then this other guy in year 12 (im in year 10) who i talk to often got his 10 days after mine, n we often find ourselves discussing ipods, he got a 3g 20gig i got a 3g 15gig, then theres this other girl in my year, noticed mine, had a bit of a play with it, n then 3 days later came to school with her ipod mini n was like hey my ipods better than urs, well its like hey #### you with your cheap ### 4gig ipod, go #### off with ur 1000 songs ok? personally i dont raelly like ipod minis too much, 4gig isnt enough considering mine doubles as an external hdd which im sure is the same for most users...so at my school 3 out of 900. apart from that ive only seen 2 others in public with them.

[sway]

I know of a few students at my highschool that have some iPods.

I was also once at a volleyball game and I noticed white earbuds with one spectator.

[maccdaddy]

i live in the north east of england and ive only ever seen 2 people

around town with ipods. not too popular round this area at all !!!!!!

[andy206uk]

We have a heap of them at work. There's three 3rd Generations (a 40Gb and two 20Gb), a 1st Generation (don't know what size) and in the next week (*when* it arrives) mine as well! (A lowly 15Gb 3G).

Its because of the guys at work that I'm getting one... I guess I just fell in love with them (the iPod, not the guys ;) ) - although I'm sure Apple's recent UK advertising campaign has helped persuade me! :)

[Essaywhuman]

Three months ago I chatted with this girl during a lunch break at my college campus when she pulled-out her 3G 20GB, the first iPod I've seen outside the stores. This was before I bought my 15GB, so I was asking questions about it, mentioned about a rumor of a smaller iPod (which would eventually be the mini a few weeks later), and even I listened to it (some crappy Chinese pop song) on the stock 'phones. Told her if she could get even better 'phones than that, her reply was "I would, but then it wouldn't match. Besides, I don't have enough for new ones". :rolleyes:

Since then, I've seen very few around campus (and around these parts north of downtown). This hot blonde girl walked past by unfurling her white 'phones with the iPod in its case, and an older guy studying at the library listening on a silver mini (a first) a week after they went on sale.

Of course, go to places in town like Alki Beach/West Seattle, Green Lake, and downtown I see an increasing number of 'Podders around.

[MetalMike]

Originally posted by yinyang
agent bristow aka jennifer garner (in alias) listens to one as she jogs to see her mum in a high security CIA location - wonder what she listens to, and why she doesn't have a case for it - she just holds it in her hand!?

Simple: product placement. you cant see it wrapped up in a case, can you?:D

[SftballShorty]

In the Season Finale of the O.C. Seth (Adam Brody) has those little white earbuds in his ears from his iPod. (I can notice those things from anywhere!:p )

[Tejas57]

i saw one yesterday in the city (brisbane) for the 1st time. i got my 40 gig last week and am in the process of ripping all my cds (i have 300) so i have them with me.

oh and i saw one on monday too - Mike goldman the voice over guy for big brother was wearing it at dreamworld

[mshell]

I saw a silver mini and a 3G wandering the halls at my school last week. The 3G had some frilly pink case and the mini was naked. And of course, the two owners were both using the white buds.