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Promiscuous iPod Users? (Jack Sharing)

Wired reports on an interesting phenomenon amongst at least one small group of iPod owners -- iPod Jack-Sharing.



The process involves iPod strangers allowing each other to listen to each other's iPods to expose themselves to new music. Wired describes one user's "first time":



    Crandall was boldly approached by another iPod user, a 30ish woman bopping enthusiastically to some high-energy tune. "She walked right up to me and got within my comfort field," Crandall stammered. "I was taken aback. She pulled out the earbuds on her iPod and indicated the jack with her eyes." Warily unplugging his own earbuds, Crandall gingerly plugged them into the woman's iPod, and was greeted by a rush of techno.



Crandall goes on to describe repeating the interaction with others on his routine evening walks.

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107 months ago
Category: News and Press Releases
Link: Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod: Strangers are plugging into each other's iPods.

Posted on MacBytes.com

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107 months ago
How does this fit into being a mac rumor? It was already posted on macbytes....

hmm...maybe I'm just picky.
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107 months ago
I'd like to see Apple ship the next gen iPods with BlueTooth broadcasting. Then you could let anyone around you tune in to your iPod with theirs and vice versa... I bet schoolkids would love it!

Az Jim
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107 months ago
i would definately not like someone coming up to me for that
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107 months ago

Originally posted by bennok
How does this fit into being a mac rumor? It was already posted on macbytes....


just for your amusement...

arn
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107 months ago
This sounds just wierd. Just about all my friends have an iPod. We don't do that. :confused:

Of course, being the computer nerds we are, we don't walk in the great outdoors if we don't have to. ^_^
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107 months ago
Hey, this is old news. I remember back in the '80s we had these things called Boom Boxes. We shared music with folks around us all the time, and it didn't matter if the other people had their own Boom Boxes or not. Boom Boxes were multi-user rather than single user, they included large (sometimes huge) speakers instead of the tiny earbuds available on 'modern' devices.


You whipper snappers think you know everything these days... ;)
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107 months ago

Originally posted by jim_az
I'd like to see Apple ship the next gen iPods with BlueTooth broadcasting. Then you could let anyone around you tune in to your iPod with theirs and vice versa... I bet schoolkids would love it!

Az Jim


would bluetooth even be fast enough for broadcasting? its a very slow connection standard. rendevous and built in airport would probably make more sense. Either way, it seems unlikely to me. though a built in FM transmitter would be a cool way to connect to your car stereo and what not, and if it had an FM receiver as well, you could do it that way perhaps.
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107 months ago
It's only a matter of time before someone gets a virus.
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107 months ago
i would be a little stunned if someone came up to me and stuck their headphone jack in my ipod...
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