My girlfriend bought an 8 Gig iPod Nano yesterday and she's already decided to sell it on eBay. To be honest, I don't blame her:
The click wheel is too small, hypersensitive, clumsy and little more than a fidgety gimmick. Why are Apple trying to reinvent the button?
The storage method for music is made deliberately cryptic in order to try and force you to use iTunes, which runs in the background like spyware, disables Musicmatch without asking you, etc.
You can't set up playlists using just the iPod, you have to plug it into a PC to create a new one if you fancy listening to a new list of songs.
She can't plug it into the USB port on our hi-fi to play her music through the speakers, it doesn't reconise the songs, whereas her old cheap Aigo mp3 player would play fine. This BIG disadvantage is a result of the complex storage method, deliberately orchestrated by Apple to force you into buying an expensive iPod docking bay for your hi-fi.
It froze the second time she connected it to the PC and we had to search the net for a method of rebooting it.
She offered to give it to me, but my PSP with 8 Gig mem stick is probably a better MP3 player, so it's going on eBay if anyone wants it.
My girlfriend bought an 8 Gig iPod Nano yesterday and she's already decided to sell it on eBay. To be honest, I don't blame her:
The click wheel is too small, hypersensitive, clumsy and little more than a fidgety gimmick. Why are Apple trying to reinvent the button?
The storage method for music is made deliberately cryptic in order to try and force you to use iTunes, which runs in the background like spyware, disables Musicmatch without asking you, etc.
You can't set up playlists using just the iPod, you have to plug it into a PC to create a new one if you fancy listening to a new list of songs.
She can't plug it into the USB port on our hi-fi to play her music through the speakers, it doesn't reconise the songs, whereas her old cheap Aigo mp3 player would play fine. This BIG disadvantage is a result of the complex storage method, deliberately orchestrated by Apple to force you into buying an expensive iPod docking bay for your hi-fi.
It froze the second time she connected it to the PC and we had to search the net for a method of rebooting it.
She offered to give it to me, but my PSP with 8 Gig mem stick is probably a better MP3 player, so it's going on eBay if anyone wants it.
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