My thing with music on the phone is soooooo far beyond irrational that it makes irrational look like a pimple on the chin of someone with a gaping gunshot wound in the forehead - this is REALLY stupid. Up to about 10 years ago, I was an absolute music junkie. I was listening to music nearly ALL of my waking life. I played it badly too, but mostly just loved listening, collecting, learning, reading about it - the full on obsession from my teens into my early 40s. And it didn't go away gradually - it was like a switch flipped and I started losing interest somewhere in my early 40s and the transition was complete within a year or so - I just didn't really care about it much anymore. And we were JUST shy of having really good mp3 players when my head started to shift and middle age started to actually kick in and I started losing interest in music. Mind you, I still love it, but I doubt I listen to music an hour a day anymore and can go days without listening to it at all. BUT, when I first started getting mp3 players I was SOOOOO psyched about the idea of having my whole music collection in my pocket, or even just in a backpack that I was totally taken by this. I got pretty close, but the mp3 players were still quite big by today's standards - I remember one from Creative that was about the size of a small paperback. And I remember saying that once they can put everything I have in my cell phone, my pda, and my mp3 player into one small device, my technical life would be complete, a dream would be realized. I had a Blackberry for a while that came close, but never loved using it.
THEN, the iphone, which I finally switched to about two and a half or three years ago. But the iphone 16 gig wasn't near big enough and then even the 32 gigs wasn't big enough to hold all of my music, so I had to create an iphone playlist in itunes and actually pick and choose what I was going to put on the iphone at any given time. I had to THINK about which music to keep which me and which music to leave behind. You know, like I'd ALWAYS had to do before with tapes and CDs, but suddenly this was unacceptable, intolerable, horrible!!! But 32 gigs was close to large enough - 40 would have probably done it. So I was yearning for a 64 gig iphone. Regardless of how thoroughly I didn't NEED it, I had to have it! Now I finally have an iphone with the capacity for everything I'd ever want to put on it. I'm not buying a lot of music anymore - again, I don't listen much, so I doubt I'll outgrow it, but now its meaningless in every sense except that I've GOT TO have it. I still MUST have all of my extensive music collection available at ALL TIMES! And now and I do - I can live happily, I could even die in peace. I don't listen to most of it EVER anymore. This is the most ridiculous obsession that I've ever held onto long enough to actually see through to the end, waaaaaay past the point where it even mattered to me except at the level of a lifelong dream realized. Its almost like having a particular tennis racquet or set of golf clubs in mind as a young athlete and then finally buying it when it becomes available even though you gave up tennis and golf years ago!
So my lifelong dream has been realized with the 4s - I sleep easier now. And now I can move on to my fantasy EP4 which will essentially be an m43 version of the Nex 7's features all built into an EP3 body. I will probably have given up photography by the time it happens, but evidently I'll have to buy it anyway!
People are funny - evidently, I'M frickin' HILARIOUS!!
-Ray