Queen Elizabeth gets an iPod

Opinion

Jun 28, 20051 min

If you’ve wanted an iPod but haven’t pulled the trigger, what are you waiting for? Even Queen Elizabeth II has beaten you to the punch.

The always-fun British press reports that HRH dispatched a member of her staff to the new Apple store in London to pick up a silver 6 GB iPod Mini, which holds about 1,500 songs. And she got a royal discount. We didn’t know Apple offered a royal discount. Let’s all try it next time we hit an Apple store.

The Queen is the latest big figure to pick up an iPod. Earlier this year, the White House got a lot of mileage out of President George Bush’s playlist. Unfortunately, Buck House has not released any info on Her Majesty’s playlist.

Via Obscure Store

Data Center

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.