When the iPod shuffle was first introduced, some of my Windows-using friends laughed at Apple’s website which proclaimed the virtues of the “new phenomenon of shuffle”. (At least, that’s the way they tell it. I still haven’t read the page.) They couldn’t understand why Apple would need to go to such great lengths to hype a feature that’s not exactly new. I explained that Apple marketing’s job was to make people comfortable with the fact that the iPod shuffle doesn’t have a screen.
With that in mind, I would like to reproduce a conversation I’ve had half a dozen times during the past couple of weeks:
Other person: Is that an iPod shuffe?
Me: Yes.
Other: That’s very cool. I wish it had a screen though.
Me: Why?
Other: So I know what song I’m listening to.
Me: Ummm… you can tell what song is playing by… ya know… listening to it.
Other: Oh yeah, I guess you’re right.
Duh! I swear I’m not making this up. And I’m sure I’ll have this conversation many more times.
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