The iPod Culture

Over the past couple of years, the iPod popularity has skyrocketed. Accompanying its popularity, the iPod has trigged different versions, colors, accessories, and even revolutionized Apple. But getting back to the iPod, almost everywhere you turn it seems that at least someone has an iPod, mini, nano, video, phone, touch...You name it, it's probably some sort of iPod. And so it is easy to say that the iPod has become a part of our culture. Whether it be a good or bad culture is open to interpretation.

I guess you could view the iPod "culture" as a good thing. No more toting around a bulky CD player or having an overflowing drawer filled with hundreds of CDs. Now thousands of songs are literally in the palm of your hand. You could also say that it is a good source of entertainment and that it is easier to keep up with new music. But you could also see this iPod culture as a bad thing. Everyone now becoming shut off from the world; communication is replaced with the blast of music and silence that occurs one too many times now. It is also much easier to pirate music off the internet because you can put it straight into your iPod and not worry about burning it to a CD. 

But who knows. All I can say is good or bad, the iPod has inevitably become part of our culture and if not the phenomenon has created its own culture. As everyone sticks the small white headphones into his/her ears, the iPod is pushing music technology further and further.