While flying to las Vegas I noticed the ellectonic kiosk offering music in front of my seat. I could have used the iPod but I did not want to run the battery Dow (preferring instead to write this blog post). It had a wide varsity of music and I was able to find 36 songs that I could add to my play list - more than enough to last my entire flight.
I was also curious about two thing:
- Since I was reading a Fortune article about Megaupload -- was the music free? With the airlines trying to squeeze every cent out of us I figured it would not be (the credit scanner below was also a strong clue). It turns out to have been free save for the occasional ad - well worth the price in my opinion
- The software itself was a bit clunky and unresponsive ( we have become spoiled by rapid response touch control mobile devices). It took me some 40 minutes to build the playlist. Since I was both looking for some tracks that I had not heard in some time and was looking to be distracted, this was all a welcome relief. However, if I were looking to just relax this would have been tiring. Movies of course came at a the usual 'on demand' prices. There was also a price for games. Not to be missed by any data nut is the graphical flight tracker along with the flight data.
Without naming the airline I should add that this aw an airbus 320 but there was no indication as to who the software vendor was. All in all it was a very pleasant diversion for a 3.5 hour trip.
