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.<\/p>\n
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 <\/em>have multiple iPods on it.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading