I happened to me this morning, during the commute, on the 52 bus: the first verified multipod moment on Stockholm public transport. By multipod moment I mean me noticing two white iPod earbud-toting co-passengers in addition to myself on a bus or subway carriage. I’ve come across other iPod users individually before, while using my own, but as I don’t feel my presence should influence the results of measuring such chance occurences, true multipod moments really should exclude the observer’s iPod.
My first ever multipod moment happened in January 2002 in New York, on the N/R line on the way to Wall Street, some four months after the original iPod was introduced. iPod densities are likely the world’s highest right there. By now, I’d be surprised to find a rush-hour carriage there that does not have multiple iPods on it.
Multipod moments are not as arbitrary a notion as you might think. In the minds of the iPod-less people (iPLP) on the bus, one white earbud-clad person is weird, but two of them is fashion, and who doesn’t want to be in fashion? Multipod moments on public transport are Apple’s tipping point.
There may have been many more than you think! (Using the required exclaimation mark as you see)
I have a pod but have replaced the pretty bad white earphones with a pair from koss. Better sound but less noticeable.
So the podpeople are there in droves, listening to the latest podcast, but not making a big noise about it *-)
So Mark, you’re a “closet iPod user” like Seth Godin, are you?
Link.
I feel so left out. Mine won’t get here until April. It’s all out of stock here in the US except for a few surprise shipments to the Apple store, the closest store is in Denver. Too far away for my lazy butt to drive. I’m jealous. I can’t wait. The Shuffle is my first pod ever. I know, I’m late to market arriver.