![]() "Reach out and jack someone."Īuthor Douglas Rushkoff suggested that iPod sharing is a legacy of online file sharing – essentially the same thing, except offline. "With so many people plugged in these days, it's nice to hear people are actually connecting in the real world," he said. "I don't think it's a native activity there," he said.ĭennis Lloyd, publisher of the iPodlounge, said he was only aware of jack sharing through a thread started by Crandall on the site's forums. Three gave him dirty looks and moved quickly on, while the other three reciprocated. ![]() "It's not widespread at all, but it's the kind of thing that might take off at a campus or in a small community," Crandall said.Ĭrandall said he tried sharing iPods in New York's SoHo district with about six people he passed on the sidewalk. The Pixar spokeswoman added she was too busy with the recent DVD release of Finding Nemo to look into it. However, Crandall was unable to provide contacts by press time, and a spokeswoman for Pixar said she'd not personally witnessed employees sharing iPods. Crandall said he's also been told the practice is quite popular on the Emeryville, California, campus of Pixar Animation Studios (Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs' other company). ![]() It is so common in Cambridge, someone has printed a T-shirt that says, "Feel free to jack into my plug," Crandall said.
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