Pod people

So let me get this straight. An iPod shuffle costs what, 99 bucks? Supposing that I owned one (I don't, can't afford it on unemployment, and if I was going to get an iPod it would be a mini, not a Pez dispenser that holds 120 songs), why in the name of Steve Jobs would I want to buy one or more $20 accessories for the gizmo? Accessories, I might add, most of which don't do anything useful, unless you consider a mini-Mr. Potato Head-wannabe (which makes it look even more like a Pez dispenser) to be useful.

OK, maybe the clip might be marginally useful, and certainly I can't claim that flashlights or watches are useless. But mating a flashlight to an iPod seems somewhat like mounting a paper shredder on a bicycle -- a useful piece of equipment, but not necessarily in that context. And for $20 I'm sure I could get a better-quality and more versatile flashlight.

Give me a real Mr. Potato Head any day. He's only $5.99, and you can let the kids play with it.