It’s just life in an outsourcing world

I just ordered an iPod Nano .

It’s weird. When you walk into, say, a Best Buy or a Circuit City or even a Costco, you just pick the thing up off a shelf, pay for it and take it home. You don’t have to think about anything but whether you’re going to be able to figure out how to work the damned thing.

But when you order it straight from Apple? Well, you get to track it.

As in, my Nano (black, 8G, capable of holding up to 2,000 songs) left Shenzhen, China , at 8:38 p.m. local time on Monday, arrived at the FedEx site in Anchorage at 12:45 p.m. local time on Tuesday, left at 2:30 p.m., arrived at the FedEx site in Indianapolis at 12:29 a.m. local time today, left at 10:20 a.m. and, as of 5:48 p.m. CST, was in Memphis.

It’s supposed to arrive in Spokane tomorrow. Weird.

I’m going to have to talk to my guy in Bangalore to help me understand how all this works.