Go on DM, just a few perfectly reasonable reasons. Go on.
Don't cite anything to do with price either, when compared to rival companies products of similar quality and features they're actually quite cheap.

Go on DM, just a few perfectly reasonable reasons. Go on.
Don't cite anything to do with price either, when compared to rival companies products of similar quality and features they're actually quite cheap.

iPods do NOT tie you into iTunes at all, there are a crap load of alternative software you can use, and even then you have to if you don't run Windows/Mac.

I seem to remember Apple calling Real names for making Rosetta be able to put music on an iPod.

And THEY REMOVE USER CAPABILITIES FROM ITUNES WITH NEW VERSIONS. What the fuck is that.

I don't understand that sentence, and most of that blog entry is shit anyway. Added stuff to stop you playing music that didn't come from them? Well that's total crap I've never had an MP3 not play on it.

Yes that is retarded, but it doesn't bother me because like I said, I only use it to sync with my iPod.

Ok, one good reason: last time I looked at an Ipod (RL), you needed an specially made cable (one of which comes with the iPod) to connect your iPod to the PC (because the iPod has some sort of new apple monstrosity of a port). So if you lose your iPod cable - KERCHING. Money in the bank for Apple.

Plus, if I stopped using my GBA about two years ago, I doubt I'll want to use a frikkin iPod to play handheld games.

Another good reason! A while back, I was screwing about with a mates iPod nano. I came across this thing to lock the iPod. I figured, "heh, I'll lock him out, and then he'll have to reenter his password to get back in again! Muhahahaha!", like the immature arse I can be at times. But lo and behold, no sooner had I locked the iPod nano (by setting a random number combo - I wasn't looking at the iPod at the time, intentionally), my friend tells me that theres NO PASSWORD TO UNLOCK YOUR IPOD. He had to wait until next weekend to get over to his dads house, get hold of "special" bullshit cable to connect the iPod to the PC so he could unlock it using iTunes! PWNT.

Another thing: same friend buys a branded Apple cover for his iPod nano, to prevent it breaking if he ever drops it. However, he's getting changed from PE one day when he drops trou, and the iPod in his pocket drops an entire 3 feet, onto the folds of his creased up trouser legs. O noes! "Ok", he thinks, "I'm fine. I got a protective cover and everything, and besides, I'm sure they're durable enough." He showed it to me after school. It had a hefty dent in the back, and the screen was shattered. It looked as if someone had struck it with a fucking claw hammer.

I could also go on about how much the commercials bug me, how they like to milk the "iPod" label for all it's worth (Ipod original, Ipod mini, Ipod shuffle, Ipod nano, video Ipods...

honestly, how bored do you have to be to watch music videos in the middle of town? you must have something better to do than that...),

the constant complaints about the batteries which once wore completely down have to be sent off to be recharged (at a price, of course - not sure if this last ones still relevant)... gah. There are more.

Most of these are aimed towards the Ipod Nano, apparently you can recharge 4th generation and above ipods via USB, or something.

You are Apple's bitch.

There is no way to "lock" an iPod. Tell me how you did it and I will believe you.

I went into the extras or features menu (whatever it was called, I only used it twice before it shat itself - this was an iPod nano, by the way), went into something called "lock", or "combination lock", or something. Had six steely-gradiented squares where you entered your numbers. I wouldn't be able to tell you direct instructions.

You could always just ask Sam. I'm sure he'll never forget it :laughcry:

Also, the screen + battery problems (batteries completely wearing out and not being replacable besides via replacing an ipod, sending off to get the battery replaced or getting one of those third party kits to replace the battery) are widespread.

I even watched episodes of Watchdog where viewers talked about how dissapointed they were with their iShits. Plus, these people were from the UK; I seem to remember them saying they couldn't even send them off to get the batteries replaced. I believe they had to buy new iPods.

There is no such setting on my iPod, and no mention of it in my manual. I do have a relatively recent Photo iPod too. Maybe they took the feature out for reasons cited?

My old comment about sales still stands. There are widespread problems with PS2 lasers, but how many people care?

the default headphones are easily recognisable

Just because a product "only fails some of the time" doesn't make it acceptable. "It only fails and needs to be rebought in 9/10 case scenarios" would not endear me towards a product.

If I was to leave my iPod on by accident (if I had an iPod), and it ran out of battery? I wouldn't bother getting it replaced. I would drop it out of my bedroom window, and write a sweary letter to Apple. Now, I'm not saying that this is the only product which suffers from design flaws, but with the iPod, it just seems to be infamous.

Whenever I talk to someone about iPods, the first critisism has always been "yeah, but those batteries cost a lot to be replaced" or "I'm gonna have to send it off to get it recharged, though" (and I've known a fair few people with iPods).

Btw, this is the first time I've heard about PS2 lasers having problems. Just saying.

(... and ridiculously fucking expensive to boot...)

But my point is it doesn't fail and need to be rebought 9/10, they no more unreliable than the microwave, and way more complex.

Yeah that's gonna help any problems it may have.

Just letting it wind down and totally run out then charging it up fully from the mains does fine.

They come with an iPod. Why would you want to buy them? The bass isn't very good anyway.

You're just a bit weird.

Well people are a bit stupid. They don't try things, this is why when thier computer "breaks" they drag it down to PC World and get charged £50 for them to reinstall Direct X or something similar.

Eh? How is this any argument for your hatred for iPods?

Welcome to the world of advertising and marketing, do you seriously expect them NOT to?

It's Mac OS that can really make me cry.

It's that fucking mentallity that's given Microsoft such a fucking monopoly despite having a clearly inferior operating system.

I've decided, my next proper computer is going to be a top of the line mac.

So fuck you all.

Cunts.

I am not going to comment here.


So Apple customer services or the manual just suck, then? What do you have to do to recharge it from flat? I'm sure
these people would have attempted to charge it as normal, otherwise they wouldn't have any reasons for claiming that the battery is knack'd.

Who do you think buys iPods, honestly? Do you think these douchebags make a list of pros and cons of various MP3 players and buy the one they like the look of the most, or do you think they just automatically opt for the iPod after seeing Bono and Eminem molesting the damn things during the breaks of their favorite reality TV shows?