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[deckardcanine]

Back in November 2004, when "The Boondocks" was still a comic strip, Huey Freeman unsurprisingly fumed over John Kerry's defeat. He said that the Democrats would put up a mere token resistance akin to Apple's against Microsoft. Michael Caesar, the more level-headed of the two boys, asked, "What about Barack Obama?" Huey replied, "He's like the iPod: clever, but not enough."

The iPod grew much more popular over the years. Now it seems that Huey was wrong on both counts.

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[octan.livejournal.com]

The iPod, I would argue, hit something of a plateau around that time; I don't think it's gotten much more popular since then. Though the computers certainly have: 17% market share now, according to the latest keynote.

Also, how am I the only one who didn't notice Obama was already becoming a big deal that long ago? I say "that long ago" because he hadn't even started his term in the Senate in November '04.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Really? I barely knew about iPods (or Obama) back then, but then their silhouette ads caught on and references to iPods turned up in a lot more entertainment I read, so I assumed they'd gotten more widespread. The rest of my family now swears by them. (Me, I rarely play music.)

I was going to mention the growing success of Apple computers, but they still don't have the workplace presence of Microsoft computers.