Here's another rather interesting BBC article. It's about a teenager who exchanged his iPod for his father's original Walkman for a week and wrote observations about the differences. I was pleased at the quality of the writing; he obviously has some talent beyond his years.
Anyhow, I found this entertaining tidbit in the comments. Yes, the software for the iPod is made in a sweatshop. Underpaid, unedicated laborers in a nation we can't even pronounce (much less locate) toil fourteen hours a day to hammer together the software for your iPod. They stamp it in by hand in hot, dangerous working conditions under the lash of their corporate overlords. That has to be it. It couldn't possibly have been made by a team of professionals working in the jet-set offices of a major IT corporation or anything.
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