The Apple Store is Genius
Excellent New York Times article about the "Genius Bar" at the Apple Store, where you can get help with your Apple products from people who actually know what they’re talking about and who can replace your product on the spot if it’s busted.
I hadn’t been in a shopping mall in a couple of years, I can’t stand them. The only serious mall-ish retail I’ve done in the past year was our trip to The Grove at Farmer’s Market in LA last year, which doesn’t count as a mall since it’s more like a lovely well-tended park that happens to have a bunch of retail stores around it. (The Grove has an Apple Store, too — if you’re unfortunate enough to find yourself in L.A., it’s worth checking out).
It’s crazy how happy I get when I go into an Apple Store. Even if I know I don’t need anything in there, it’s still fun to get in there and touch stuff.
My daughter’s CD player broke a few weeks ago and my wife suggested that we get her a cutesy replacement CD player with Hello Kitty on it or something. Last night at the store I saw an iPod bumping the tunes inside of one of the donut-shaped JBL OnStage speakers and got all excited. Screw Hello Kitty, I think I’m going to get her her own iPod. It’s cuter.
Update: Wifey put the kibosh on the kiddie iPod ("she’s THREE YEARS OLD"). And she has a point. Hello, kitty!
Update the 2nd: Just returned to this post after more than a year because I’m doing some blog housekeeping. I actually wound up winning the iPod argument in March 2005 because we all started commuting down the freeway together after I changed jobs; I gave my disused iPod Shuffle to the kid and she freaking loved it. So I am here to say that it is totally proper to give your kid an iPod Shuffle, and more importantly, I am not a bad father for wanting to do so.
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Yeah, just imagine how many days of children’s music will fit on a 40GB iPod… And how it’s likely she’ll play it every day until the batteries run out, so you’re likely to get a good 8-10 hours in daily.
On a related note, how come most children’s music sucks? It’s like Christian rock. You’d think they’d be able to come up with better stuff, but no.
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