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Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat
Okay for both of you that just busted on the ipod and itunes. LOL your funny. I have a ipod mini that the battery lasted for 3 and a half years. Than replaced it and it still works to this day. They are the best and number one selling player in the world. They proved that at there last meting they have sold more ipods than anything else and over 96% of people have them. For itunes great program very easy to find songs and easy to keep everything organized. You can sit there and go on and on about how you do not like them and bla bla bla. But the truth and the fact is, that they are the best and they are just getting better. PERIOD
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Wrong.
Apple sells what is popular. Now I will agree they are a business and that they are here to make money, no business can never say otherwise. But Apple sells on the notion of what looks, feels, or is hip/cool.
Here is how Apple got to where they are today. They introduced the iPod, it was 6 months from being pulled because of lack of support. Apple had iTunes which worked for the idea of syncing music, but how do people get the music? Apple then created the first central music syncing MP3 player on the market and meet the needs of the next digital wave. People wanted a simple way to carry their music, they did not care about quality, or the device, or even how much it was. People like simple, non-complicated, computer/technology gadgets and Apple gave them exactly that.
Lets start with iTunes, at first it was a good idea for syncing media to a device because neither Windows nor OS X were capable of handling this connection. Now we have a simple way of doing it, even faster than iTunes can do it, simple drag/drop. Now iTunes use to be small, compact media player, but it has turned into a beacon of bloat and looked at as useless resources. When I loaded iTunes up on a clean boot with 4GB of memory, it took up over 1.8GB out of the 4GB, that is just horrible for a program. I run programs from video games to mapping software that do not even come close to that amount, and these other programs do a lot more than iTunes. I could add on even more to what is wrong with iTunes, but you get the general idea on how Apple has failed to even evolve iTunes into a worthwhile program. Yes they have added support for an iPhone or for downloading movies, but I can get better quality movies downloaded without the need for extra software easier.
Now onto the iPod, or the iPod touch, or the iPod nano, or the iPod shuffle, or anything else Apple has created for media playback.
Stop limiting features. Apple should have put a camera from day one on the iPod touch, and now they say they cannot do it because of space and because that is not the focus of the iPod touch. Bull-f*cking-****, you have an iPod nano with a camera and not the iPod touch, it is not the focus of the iPod touch. Really? So all those ads I saw for the device saying it is an all in one computer basically are lies? I have laptops from at least 8 years ago with a camera, and yet today Apple "claims" it is to small for a camera or not the focus for a portable media device.
I am a bit tired and done writing, but Apple started out with the idea of the iPod as being ground breaking and it was, sort of. They were actually not even the third to the market with an MP3 player. But Apple has been so overtaken by how well the idea of an image sells, that they have lost all focus on innovation throughout the entire line of products. The iPod/iTunes line up needs to open its eyes to what is going on elsewhere, open usage of codecs for playback, simple drag/drop of music, being able to easily fix the device at a home.
I have more, but you can counter with what you want to show how Apple is better. Yet let is show, that brands such as Cowon, Archos or even iRiver are steps ahead of Apple in the portable media devices and features. Now they do not have a places to buy music, but what they do is provide very excellent support for buying from multiple, yes multiple sources (Amazon, Rhapsody, etc.).