I am now a fully-fledged member of Generation Y (yes, the cusp of the group lies on the 80-81 birth year). I bought an iPod. It is a reward/incentive for going to the gym. I love its streamlined design and simple packaging. When I was living in London, Pete "the Fork: Lau (Dave's older brother) and I visited the Design Museum, which was displaying the 5 finalists of some 2003 European design awards. One of the finalist was the designer of iMac, iPods and various other Apple products. Another finalist was the team that designed GTA 2: Vice City. The other entries, some doilies, jewellery and vases or some other arty stuff, couldn't compete. Who needs beauty for beauty's sake when you can combine beautiful form with outstanding function?

There are minimal instructions, evidently geared toward the plug-and-play generation who wouldn't bother to read lengthy manuals. They'd much rather search for help online when it's required. (I'm like this myself - when I'm feeling too "lazy" to ask someone else for help. This has been a problem a couple of times when my web access wasn't working especially as I don't even have a hard copy of the white pages. How to ask for help when your only medium for help is the that thing that you need help to use?)