iApp for Entertainment
Next are Apple’s Mac music player, iTunes, and its iPod companion.
iTunes
When the first MP3 players came on the market, I sorta wondered what the fuss was about. Sure, you could carry music with you, if you call carrying an hour or two of tunes actually “carrying music.” Hope that bike ride won’t be a very long one, or else you’d better like those tunes a whole lot.
And yes, you could download the music you’d stolen over the Internet onto an MP3 player—in only slightly less time than it would take to play it. OK, I exaggerate, but moving music to an MP3 player via USB cable is pretty slow.
Then along came Apple’s iPod. The iPod—basically a multigigabyte hard drive with an operating system, a little processor, a headphone ...
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