> I hate the term "first-world problems".

It is not meant to be dismissive of arguments as much as self deprecating satire. Cheer up mate.

Agree. In my circles, it's never dismissive but always a brief "If that's a significant problem for you, you have it pretty good" distraction that the group laughs about before returning to the discussion.

Agreed. I've usually heard it used by someone to deprecate their own problems, when they know they're whining about something that isn't really a big deal. https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23firstworldproblem

I think in this case, the term was justified, for the reason Louis CK illustrates in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

Here we've got someone who has a magical device not much bigger than a wristwatch that holds 16 days worth of music, and he's complaining that it's not enough. For comparison, I was in college when Sony released the first Walkman, and we thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread-- a device the size of a paperback book that allowed you to listen to 90 minutes worth of music while walking around.

So, yeah: 30GB capacity on an iPod is a first-world problem, in my book.