Tomorrow's Private Eye. There are two iPods in our family, and they've both given a lot of trouble. My students have similar tales. Is this unusual experience?
Robert points to this Apple front page:
I have to say, to me this seems at the very least cheesy, but probably in poor taste.
No axe to grind here — I'm sorely tempted to buy a Mac PowerBook before long. But how come the problems with iPods don't make more waves? And I can't believe I'm alone in finding this kind of advertising … shallow (because tastelessly parasitic — what's owning a Mac got to do with fighting racial segregation)? (One of those leaving comments on Robert's posting asks what the reaction would be if Microsoft had used the Rosa Parks image: 'Where do you want to go today?'.)
