iPodiots!

It used to look cool I suppose, people with white ear phones plugged in and the white cord leading from the ears down into a pocket or bag containing the mystical iPod.

I work in a University and on my travels around campus I find I can't look in any direction without finding one of these people walking around. My friend refers to them as iPodiots, I think it describes them well. The iPod isn't the best player out there, it might be the coolest, but who really needs to be walking around with 10,000 songs in their pocket?

What I want to know is the when is saturation point reached? Surely Mac can't keep the cool factor going on something that has become ubiquitous.

I love my little iRiver MP3 player. It only holds about 70 songs, but it wasn't that long ago I had to take out a tape and turn it over after 5 songs and the headphones are a nice dark blue. To the casual observer, I could be listening to anything, even a portable gramophone!

I did a Google search for iPodiot and got no results. Could this be the first recorded instance of a new word? Don't you mourn the days when people talked of more important things?