You may have heard that “Apple”:http://apple.com released a new version of the “iPod”:http://www.apple.com/ipod/ this week. How could you avoid it? They made the cover of “Newsweek”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457432/site/newsweek/, in an *election year*, the week before the Democratic National Convention. Does anyone else question the relative importance of the iPod in the current news environment? I mean, I love my iPod and there’s no way I’d give it up, but cover of Newsweek? Probably not.
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I was walking from my hotel to work Wednesday and passed San Francisco’s Apple Store. The UPS truck was unloading a stack of boxes at the back door. Store emloyees, clad in their Bondi-blue t-shirts, were rabidly tearing into a box. A woman pulled out what I surmise to be the new iPod box (also Bondi blue), held it in the air, jumping up and down, practically giggling.