His heart was in the right place.
I still think the media (as well as President Obama) is overlooking a
very important technical limitation of this gift; that is, long-term,
without the computer and software that was used to create it, the gift
fails.
If, as reported, she already uses an iPod, she obviously uses iTunes to
download, save, or backup content. The fact that she now has an iPod
created with another instance of iTunes makes the gift almost worthless
(regardless of the content) unless she decides to either overwrite her
iTunes library or, overwrite the "new" iPod.
She may elect never to sync the iPod in order to back up the content.
However, if this is the case, she better hope that this particular iPod
does not suffer any technical glitches other iPods the world over tend
to do once in awhile.
I suppose she could send it back to the White House for syncing and/or
software updates...
Jobs Save the Queen?
[I have no idea where the image above is from. If you created
it, it's awesome. Thanks.]
