iPod "pod".... i dont get it

[mac.FINN]

no no no...

Remeber Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Everyone who had one of those "pods" became distant and detached from the real world.
That's why it's Pod, because when you have it on you can't hear what's going on around you - or see if you're watching a show, and you don't pay attention. Thus detaching yourself from the world.

OMG Apple is really an alien invasion force!!!



btw I own 2 iPods...beam me up Jobbie.

 

[RBMaraman]

iPod = I Play on Demand ?

You're pretty close actually.

In all seriousness, I read an article right after the iPod was introduced where Phil Schiller said "Pod" stood for....

Drum roll please....

Playlist On Demand

 

[mkrishnan]

What is this called? I wanna Google it.

An Oculas. There were briefly some co-branded ones at the time of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, because it's something that fits that story's style so well. There might have *been* one in the movie (I haven't seen it yet).

Here:

http://www.theoculas.com/

 

[Counterfit]

It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.

You forgot about the part where they're powered by your body.

 

[mkrishnan]

You forgot about the part where they're powered by your body.

I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it is going to begin.