Topic: Cultural Change
Source: Robbins "ANTHRO" and own experience
Relation: As I reminisced about my first music media player which was a CD player, I began to wonder how much music media has changed since I was a child.
Description: Growing up in a low income family, I never had the privilege to have nice things. My friends would talk about having Nintendo game systems and stereos to listen to their music, but I never had one. When I was in 6th grade, I was able to purchase my first CD player. I was so excited that I couldn't believe I had a CD player and could carry my music everywhere I went, well until the batteries died. Going into middle school, I thought I was cool because I had a CD player, but then I started seeing people with blocks in their hands. I didn't know what they were or why they had them. I soon found out that they were music media devices called iPods. I asked one of my friends to see what it was and he said it's like a CD player, just all digital. I began to get sad because I had just convinced my mother to buy me a CD player and now I had to buy something new. It wasn't until my Junior year of high school when I got my first iPod which was the 32 GB video iPod. It only lasted until the beginning of my Senior year because the screen had broke and yet again there was a new iPod, therefore I couldn't get a replacement. I began to realize that as the years went on, the music media device that was an iPod continued to get smaller and thinner. By the end of my Senior year, there was an iPod touch which was super thin and had a touch screen. In the modern day of 2012, the iPod nano went from looking like a stick to looking like a bottom on a jacket. As the years keep progressing, so is the music media device. they continue to make them "better". At least I think they are trying.
Commentary/Analysis: As I think back to when I was a child and wonder why people would buy all these devices, I never would have thought that the world would make more of them. The Apple iPod family alone has grown so much that there are more iPods then anyone can remember. That doesn't include other music media devices such as regular MP3s and what once was called Zune. But why does the music industry continue to put out new produces when there are good ones already? Money? makes them feel better? Who knows, but someday in the future someone will talk about iPods and say "What the hell is an iPod?!"
Source: Robbins "ANTHRO" and own experience
Relation: As I reminisced about my first music media player which was a CD player, I began to wonder how much music media has changed since I was a child.
Description: Growing up in a low income family, I never had the privilege to have nice things. My friends would talk about having Nintendo game systems and stereos to listen to their music, but I never had one. When I was in 6th grade, I was able to purchase my first CD player. I was so excited that I couldn't believe I had a CD player and could carry my music everywhere I went, well until the batteries died. Going into middle school, I thought I was cool because I had a CD player, but then I started seeing people with blocks in their hands. I didn't know what they were or why they had them. I soon found out that they were music media devices called iPods. I asked one of my friends to see what it was and he said it's like a CD player, just all digital. I began to get sad because I had just convinced my mother to buy me a CD player and now I had to buy something new. It wasn't until my Junior year of high school when I got my first iPod which was the 32 GB video iPod. It only lasted until the beginning of my Senior year because the screen had broke and yet again there was a new iPod, therefore I couldn't get a replacement. I began to realize that as the years went on, the music media device that was an iPod continued to get smaller and thinner. By the end of my Senior year, there was an iPod touch which was super thin and had a touch screen. In the modern day of 2012, the iPod nano went from looking like a stick to looking like a bottom on a jacket. As the years keep progressing, so is the music media device. they continue to make them "better". At least I think they are trying.Commentary/Analysis: As I think back to when I was a child and wonder why people would buy all these devices, I never would have thought that the world would make more of them. The Apple iPod family alone has grown so much that there are more iPods then anyone can remember. That doesn't include other music media devices such as regular MP3s and what once was called Zune. But why does the music industry continue to put out new produces when there are good ones already? Money? makes them feel better? Who knows, but someday in the future someone will talk about iPods and say "What the hell is an iPod?!"
I'm really glad that you chose to write about iPods this week. It is definitely a frustrating industry to buy into because you'll buy the current greatest product, and then less than 6 months later...it's outdated and bypassed by newer "cooler" things. It's definitely a marketing technique to keep people spending money. It's easy for someone to think they need a newer product when there is one easily available that is advertised to be greater, bigger and better than what you already have (that probably still works fine).
ReplyDeleteI remember having a cd player too and wondering what mp3s were when they first came out. I vaguely remember that mp3s were on cds for a while? I think you could fit like 100 songs instead of 12. You're right about how even our culture has changed around music technology. Before any sort of portable music player you couldn't always choose what music you listened to at anytime during the day. And even before that, people had to go out to listen to music if they didn't have a way to do so in their homes. Now, nearly everybody walks around with music in their ears!
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