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Monday, October 23, 2006 12:00 AM

iPod: I love you, you're perfect, now change

Apple's ingenious music player is 5 years old -- gorgeous, exciting, tempting. So why do I often wish it had never been invented?
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Sunday, October 22, 2006 06:25 PM

    Nice one, Farhad

    I like the commentary but I'm not convinced that you mean Jobs should not have invented the iPod.

    Perhaps that very syndrome you've described here, the ever-shortening attention span, is also tightening up your expectations for the iPod itself?

    —S.R. Hampton Read S.R. Hampton's other letters

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