The Perfect Thing (pg. 1-50)

Summary:
Chapter 1: The perfect thing
The iPod as the narrator described, is 6.4 ounces of "white polycarbonate and stainless steel". It is a digital music player with a whole library of tunes. The iPod first arrived in October of 2001. It gained the fans of Macs their attention, but not the people who owns a PC. The iPod changed the way of life and by the end of 2005, Apple Computer sold more than 42 million iPods with prices ranging at $99 to $599. People want to thier hands on the new gaget. However, the cost of the iPod was originally $399 and the nano was half the price. Steve Jobs showcased the iPod in October in one of his casual shows. The iPod can hold a thousand songs, all of them in your pocket, Jobs exclaimed. It takes around six minutes to download songs on iTunes but only a few seconds to sync them in your iPod. One cool feature on the iPod was shuffling. You would never know what song is next.
Chapter 2: Identity
The songs that one choses on their iPod represents their identity. In the media, reporters have the question, what is on your iPod. Mayor Bloomberg of New York City uses his iPod to listen to Spanish lessons. Even then-President George W. Bush even has an iPod, a forty gigabyte. So, the new question is what is on the Presidential iPod. He definitely had Aretha Franklin on it. The author goes on by stating that iTunes can let one expose their entire music library to anyone on their local network.
Chapter 3: Origin (Pt. 1)
From the title of the chapter, this part will tell how the iPod existed. The author tells the reader that before the iPod, there was the Personal Jukebox. The downside is that they used memory chips that can't store even one song. Later on, the programmers found a way to a hundred of our CD's in your pocket. The Personal Jukebox is orientated sideways, horizontally. It has slow downloading and other shortcomings.  Apple needed an good MP3 app, so SoundJam was created.

Quote:

"Playlist is character" (Levy 23)

Reaction:
Even though it is only three words, it is important. The songs that you put on your iPod, tells your character and that is one of the ways that people can judge your character. I can relate to what the quote is saying but it is not entirely true. People that you know may have songs on their iPod that may not reflect their character. In short, I think it is an opinion, so it cannot be proven that it is a fact.