retired_thomilee

I mean, I've got an mp3 player. It's not an iPod. It's a Sanyo something-or-other, so I call it an mp3 player. Yet, anyone who's got an iPod calls it an iPod - why? Surely it's an mp3 player, so why not call it that? Is it a status thing?

It seems that if you've got an iPod you call it that, and if you've an mp3 player that isn't an iPod, you call it an mp3 player - despite them being the same.

Why? Are people just showing off?

retired_srini_aug1

I call it an ipod because its an ipod. It also plays videos, and has games etc

Same as i say i've got a wii. I dont just say i have a games console.

retired_metcalfl

What a totally unimportant thing to spend time thinking about

Ventil

*eagerly awaits first Partridge post about Tannoy*

See also Hoover/ vacuum cleaners.

retired_newlicore

etf, i have an ipod, so i say i have an ipod, don't really understand the question though tbf. Are you trying to say that people who don't have an ipod say that they do?

retired_acivin

I have an ipod, and I call it ipod.

retired_jessicadon

Because it's an ipod? In the same way you call a PSP a PSP and not a handheld game console.

But yeah, thrilling.

retired_heidus17

he is saying everyone who has an mp3 player that isnt an ipod calls it an 'mp3 player', but people with ipods dont, they call them 'ipods'
i call my ipod an 'ipod', its shorter to say, and everyone knows what i am on about.

retired_paeng2000

Haha a status thing calling something what it is actually called.

What a jerk

retired_heidus17

its also because if people said "have you seen my creative zen" some people might think you crazy. infact, you dont even seem to know what your sanyo is called yourself.