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Chapter 3. Picture Perfect: iPod Photo

Don't look now, but within nearly all of us resides the selfish soul of a 3-year-old. Do you doubt me? Riddle me this, then. Apple releases a faultless music player in the form of the iPod, and what do you hear? "But I want my iPod to do more! Now! Gimme, gimme, gimme…."

And thank goodness, say I, that this is the case. Without consumers' constant desire for bright shiny objects, the world's economy would crumble, and Apple's engineers would spend their days cracking open older iPods to replace their exhausted batteries.

This ceaseless carping not only keeps dollars, drachmas, and deutschemarks circulating, but also drives companies such as Apple to produce the Next Big Thing. In the case of the iPod, that NBT is a device that not only holds and plays thousands of tunes, but displays scads of pictures as well. This is the iPod Photo.