![]() ![]() I cannot begin to tell you how happy that made me! No longer having to decide what music I might want to listen to while on the move, instead having access to any of it, anytime, anywhere. However, Apple did manage to sell me one more… 160GB iPod Classic in 2007įinally Apple offered a model with enough storage for my entire music collection! This was the holy grail. The iPod Shuffle (so cute I wanted one, but had no excuse for one as my Classic still went with me everywhere). After that, it was rare indeed for me to leave home without it – and I think it was many months before it ceased to feel like magic. ![]() I somehow did manage to resist the temptation to abandon my girlfriend to my music collection, but listened to it non-stop on the flight home. ![]() The user interface was just genius! To have a thousand songs on the device (I of course had to test the claim!) and still be able to quickly select the one I wanted felt like magic to me. Travelling with her, it wasn’t like I was going to don my headphones and listen until the return flight (not on Concorde!), but still, I had this incredible new device and I wanted to set it up and at least test it. Despite being in the city for just five days, with a lot of sightseeing on the agenda, I spent a few hours in our hotel room transferring music to it, to the bemusement of my non-techy other half. I remember we had to trek halfway across Manhattan before finding a place that had any left in stock, and actually getting my hands on one felt like a triumph. This trip was going well! Adding an iPod into the mix would be the icing on the cake. A mix-up with our booking resulted in a swift apology and an upgrade to a suite. As I’d secured that deal, I tasked my then-girlfriend with finding a suitable hotel deal, and she managed to get a room at the Waldorf. I’d always promised myself I’d fly Concorde one day, and managed to get two of the last discounted tickets available before British Airways announced the upcoming retirement of the service, and only full-fare ($5,000 one-way!) tickets were available. I happened to be in New York the day it went on sale. A thousand songs in my pocket? That was irresistible! As soon as the iPod was announced, I knew I had to have one. ![]()
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