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Even Simon Probably Likes It (5/1/03)
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Holy jumpin' catfish, people, we just heard some great news! It seems that, in addition to racking up umpteen awards and rave reviews from everyone and their grandmothers over the past year and a half, the iPod has now just been named American Idol! Take that, Kimberley Locke! Mmmuuaaahahahahaha!!
Oh, wait a sec... we misread. The iPod was actually named as an American Icon by Rolling Stone magazine, and this designation appears to have little if any connection to American Idol. Sorry about that. And, uh, best wishes, Kimberley. We didn't mean anything by it, we swear. (If you win, can we have an autographed photo? Just make it out to "eBay.")
Now, as for this "American Icon" label, on some level we're certainly not surprised. In many ways, the iPod is clearly iconic; it's almost as archetypal and visible today as the original iMac was four years ago, and it's completely upended and reshaped the concept of portable music as we know it. (Who says we couldn't be bombastic rock journalists if we wanted to?) On the other hand, though, have you seen the kind of company with whom the iPod is apparently rubbing elbows these days?
According to Rolling Stone, the iPod ranks right up there in iconicity with such heavy-hitting major arcana as The Dead Rock Star and The Blonde Bombshell. It's splitting a pizza with Elvis, Dylan, and The Boss and getting plastered at Moe's with Homer Simpson. This is pretty heady stuff, and a high honor-- albeit one that the iPod surely deserves. Congrats, iPod, on what may be your highest honor since Religion Monthly's last ranking of the Earthbound Divine listed you as tied for first place with the Pope.
But it still ain't like winning on American Idol.
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Other scenes from that episode: 3922: Diversity Influx Imminent (5/1/03) So now that we're kindasorta back and everything, are we ever gonna cover something that isn't directly related to Apple's big digital music push? Well, yeah, of course... just not today. Because whatever technical glitches we've encountered with the iTunes Music Store and whatever nagging reservations still linger in our paranoid little skulls about Apple's digital rights management scheme ("Yeah, but what if someday the fate of the entire world rests entirely on our ability to burn that one playlist eleven times?")... 3923: Wave Bye-Bye To Exclusivity (5/1/03) Say, you know that Windows version of the iTunes Music Store which Steve promised by the end of the year? Well, there were already plenty of indications that it would eventually materialize in the form of a fully-fledged Windows port of iTunes 4; we're thinking primarily of the exclusive article in FORTUNE last Monday (which also revealed that Steve has trouble buying jeans that are the right size)...
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