I too remember Oregon Trail in elementary school. Might be the first shooter I ever played.
I got an iPod and it was all buggy and didn't work well with my PC so I traded it for a 30gb Zune. It still works to this day, like 5 or 6 years later. My sister and her husband have gone through a few iPods. I do think Microsoft is very superior to Apple in both regards to construction, quality, and availability, but Apple's impact on the computing wurld is pretty undeniable. Could have been better. Like Microsoft.