Apple introduces its new iPods today, with the big one using the same touch screen interface as the iPhone, and the Nano having a little color video screen. Some are not as enthusiastic over Apple products (warning: strong language content). Me? I'm going to read a book while I listen to music with my phone/mp3 player/video player/digital camera/internet communications device. iTunes not included or necessary.
Why no one thought "greasy fingerprints" is beyond me. And the iPhone dropped $200 in price today, to add further insult.
ReplyDeleteThat said, my first words out of anesthesia from recent surgery were: "Where's my iPod."
It's a mini.
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ReplyDeleteI've been a Mac hater since the iMac came out. I thought the Mac Classics and Pluses were fine computers, but Apple went counter culture and just struck me wrong. It's really not rational, my bias against Apple.
But I never felt so justified in my animosity when I heard about how the Apple attitude was tranlated to portable media players. Change the battery yourself? Nope, here's a new iPod. Treat the portable device like an external harddrive? No, silly, just use iTunes.
Then they pulled the same crap with the iPhone. An MP3 ringtone? Are you retarded? Okay, I guess you really want one, so we'll charge you a buck for it. Web browsing without Flash? Who needs that crap? It's just ads on pages anyway. Need a new battery? Give us 80 bucks and 20 bucks for the loaner. Don't forget to back up your address book on iLife!
It's like Apple thinks we're all babies that should never see the inside cover of a device unless we're Mac qualified. Anyway...
There are devices out there where I can change the batteries myself and memory cards myself. You better hope Apple never goes into making digital cameras. The photographers would go crazy. No changing out memory sticks. Just bring your powerbook and sync the pictures! It's so easy with iWhatever! Grr...
yay! you wrote back! I hear you on all counts with the Mac counterculture thing. Now they're partnering with Starbucks, of all things. Dave (spouse) had a good rant about that tonight.
ReplyDeleteI worked in the computer book industry from 1991 until a few months ago, and when I say enough, I mean ENOUGH.
Have you seen the Fred Armiston impersonation of Steve Jobs on SNL? You can probably find it on YouTube. (Surprised there's not an iTube, ha.)
The "I'm a Mac. I'm a PC." commercials really peeve us. Dave is a software engineer and an ardent PC fan; I bought him a Creative Zen for his tunes, video, radio, and on.
I could go on ...
oh yeah, and the product is substandard. forgot that part. battery life anyone?
ReplyDelete"I've been a Mac hater..."
ReplyDelete*sniff* Well I still like you, Joe!
I learned on a Mac Plus ... but even then, for some reason, I was drawn to the blue screen, blinking cursor of Professional Write, and then Word for MS-DOS ...
ReplyDeleteBut for what it's worth, I'm listening to my Mini right now ... Cyndi Lauper acoustic, mmm. Better than the original. Sacrilege, I know.
We like you tons, Mac!
Aww, Mac, not you! (not really... I keed! I keed!)
ReplyDeleteJust don't go calling yourself iMachinist, start wearing bulbous white accessories, and make yourself all "touchy-feely."
Seriously though, the touch screen interface is going to become standard for small devices for the next ten years. The real breakthrough will be when they create a material that is resistant to fingerprint oil, yet still shiny.
I just hope Microsoft doesn't come up with it first, in their hypothetical "zune phone," otherwise the recharger will catch your nightstand on fire...
hey Joe, did you see the Newsweek interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? Steve said that Apple is a software company, and Mr. Gates said that Apple and MS collaborate as much as they compete (using the XBOX as an example).
ReplyDelete1) I really like my nightstand, so the hypothetical Zune Phone is out. thanks for the tip.
2) Within two days of my gifting Dave with his Zen, he had disassembled it to upgrade parts (I think that's why, anyway). I was more unhinged than the circuit board, I think.