As a seducer, it’s not very subtle. Whereas the iPod seems blank and straightforward on the surface, but to master it you have to touch it in subtle ways – who would suspect that you’d have to hold down “select” and “pause” at the same time to get it to stop ignoring you when it locks up?

The Starck juicer is a whore: initially enticing, but its flaws soon become apparent, leaving you sticky and unfulfilled. The iPod is the kind of object you’d like to settle down with for a long relationship.