As I was helping my daughter pick out a "skin" for her new iPod Nano, it hit me as to just how small the thing really is. I just think it's really funny how in these times, personal music players and cell phones are judged mostly on size - the smaller the better. Yet, not all that long ago, personal music players were judged on how LARGE they were. It was nothing to see someone walking down the street carrying a radio that was bigger than a St. Bernard. We've gone from Walk-Mans and CD-Mans to something that holds 500 songs that's about half the size of a credit card. I remember in 1995 I bought a 250 mb hard drive to add to my PC which only had a 40 mb drive. I paid roughly $1 a meg which was pretty standard in those days. I just dropped a 1 gig micro sd flash card into my Razor phone and it's literally the size of a toddler's pinky nail...and it cost $25. Insane! In 11 years we've gone from $1 a meg to this and that's for micro sd. Regular sd can be had for half of that. I can't wait to see what's next. We'll have iPods built into our shoe lace tips!
No comments:
Post a Comment