I don't use my iPod much as I find I don't like to go around with things stuck in my ears. However, my wife uses hers a lot and seem to like it quite well. I never hear her complain about iTunes and she seems to do quite well managing her media. I'll let her know about the bloated player-organizer and see if she cares. I don't think she's even aware of DRM, bit rates and changing firmware. She has never voiced any concerns to me about "open source" issues. She also made the switch from her Toshiba laptop to a Mac about three years ago. Complaining has decreased even though she seems to use it much more that she used the Toshiba. I'm personally benefitting as my time spent troubleshooting laptop problems has dropped significantly. I think she gets it!
-- Scott -- On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Nonreality wrote: >> > > I just don't get it? The love affair with Apple. I have Ipods and > they're very nice to a point. To get all the benifits I have to use a > very bloated player, organizer in Itunes. It does some things very > nice > but other things not well or not at all. The Ipod database...why. > Why > would you purposely mix all the data into multiple folders that make > no sense for manual use, unless it's to make it difficult for people > to > use other programs. Sell it's customers drm encoded music at a semi > low > bit rate for years and put in it's own quality encoder paired with a > lousy mp3 encoder. Oh and by the way most other portable players don't > support our encoder so you better just spend the bucks and buy your > kids ipods too. Lets also keep changing firmware so other companies > that do make programs that can link ipods are always kept well behind. > It seems that this is even beyond what gave Microsoft such a bad name. > The Apple fans seem not to notice and keep praising the almighty > Apple. > I just don't get it. > Oh and another thing, The ability to synchronize multiple players > isn't > the only thing important to a lot of people. I have one so it doesn't > matter at all. I like the quality of sound, and how I can customize > the SB. You really think Apple will make theirs open source? How > about > other file types, get used to converting. I don't mind Apples stuff I > just like to have some choice in what I play and what programs I can > use. > Sorry, I'm done ranting now. > > > -- > Nonreality > > *-If the rule you followed brought you to this, what good is the > rule.-* > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45961 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
