andy b said the following on 08/11/2005 20:11:
I needed a music player
I bought an ipod for one reason. 60GB.
Me too. Mine's full though, so I'll have to re-transcode to a lower bit
rate :)
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fathom39 Wrote:
iPods are for sheep. We know this because the ear buds and cord are
white, in order to match the color of the wool.
BAAA!
As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I
do love my iPod :D
And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of
I notice that the SB3 designer has worked for Apple...
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Jim Wrote:
BAAA!
As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I
do love my iPod :D
And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of like the new
Squeezebox :D
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Jim Wrote:
As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I
do love my iPod
But surely if you care about music, and you're a Squeezebox lover, the
DAP of choice has to be the Rio Karma? Native support for FLAC Ogg
Vorbis; gapless playback of MP3s (even the Squeezebox
And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of like the new
Squeezebox :D
I see it more as the antithesis of the Squeezebox.
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cliveb Wrote:
Native support for FLAC Ogg Vorbis
Apart from filling it up very quickly just what effect does the huge
data reading involved with playing FLAC files have on the battery life?
Lossy is lossy, if I could use Ogg Vorbis over AAC or WMA I of course
would but wouldn't use ropey old
Pity Rio went bust
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000483056128/
another reason to hate Apple.
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It makes me weary when I see all this envy/indignation with a product's
(iPod) or company's (Apple) success. Vote with your own money but don't
criticize my choice. My iPod and my Powerbook have served me well. I
hope your choices are as satisfying to you.
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oreillymj Wrote:
Pity Rio went bust
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000483056128/
another reason to hate Apple.
Survival of the fittest. Only in rare circumstances does the inferior
product win (e.g. VHS vs Betamax), and usually in those cases it
involves consumer stupidity/naivety, a
OK, the Apple has a few gapless problems :(
I'd query the 'few' as it doesn't do gapless at all.
Survival of the fittest. Only in rare circumstances does the inferior
product win (e.g. VHS vs Betamax), and usually in those cases it
involves consumer stupidity/naivety, a huge marketing
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It makes me weary when I see all this envy/indignation with a product's
(iPod) or company's (Apple) success. Vote with your own money but don't
criticize my choice. My iPod and my Powerbook have served me well. I
hope your choices are as satisfying to you
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I have voted with my money
I have one. I love it. My wife has one integrated into her Mini. She
loves it.
For those who don't, you should visit www.smashmyipod.com.
I also love my slim servers.
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Maybe we should startup www.breakaroku.com and send in donations.buy
a secondhand one of ebay of course :D
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I have one. I love it. My wife has one integrated into her Mini. She
loves it.
One of the nice things about the iPod (which springs from Apple's
overwhelming market domonance) is the wide range of aftremarket
accessories available for it. My wife has a Mini but fortunately, she's
not that much
oreillymj Wrote:
What I cannot understand is why so many people are buying into a
product which becomes a 60Gb brick once the internal battery stops
taking a charge.
Why has Apple never changed the design to make this a user replacable
part?
No one is asking you to understand. It's not
Fifer Wrote:
One of the nice things about the iPod (which springs from Apple's
overwhelming market domonance) is the wide range of aftremarket
accessories available for it.
You stole my thunder. I have Bose SoundDock. Many, if not most, of
the major A/V receiver and car stereo
OK, guys, this thread is getting snarley.
There's no need to be offensive.
I posted it as a humourous web page that I happened to come across. The
intention was to foster a light-hearted smile on a few faces, not to
become the focus for acrimony.
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I totally respect people's right to buy and love their i-pods or
whatever else they might buy.
But I think you've average consumer who hasn't a clue technically
doesn't realise that with every DRM'd track they buy off ITMS, they are
becoming part of an Apple monopoly that they have no way out
The way I see it, if there wasn't people wasting their money buying
iTunes DRM stuff then my iPod would have cost more money or not even
been made in the first place.
I don't like Mictosoft yet still run Windows, so don't assume I like
Apple (maybe you saw the avatar) just because I have an
I do not support any form of restrictive DRM either. I refuse to buy
anything that prevents me from making legal copies for my personal use.
I have even chosen to encode in high quality mp3 only as I do not want
to be restrcted in the future with my choice of portable (or
non-portable) digital
In my opinion, it's the depth of support by third party manufacturers
that gives the iPod the edge over the few who have been able to
manufacturer something that comes close to being as good as the iPod.
I can just about agree with that and look forward to seeing how they
gain the edge over
There are applications out there that allow you to download non-DRM
encoded versions of songs directly from the iTunes store, the only
difference is that you are using a front-end developed by a non-Apple
programmer and are probably violating some obscure EULA from Apple by
not using their
I hate Apple's marketing 'spin'. You'd imagine that they'd invented
everything, rather than just being slightly late with slightly
overpriced alternatives.
I like the way some of their kit looks.
I hate the way the media fawns over ipod and anything apple.
I needed a music player
I bought
That's just really, really sad, but very true.
Makes me lose my faith in humanity though.
People seem to especially think this way for cars
and that just gets really expensive. Very sad.
Then again, I'm one of those engineer-types who
cares what it looks like as long as it works,
Ok, I'm not saying that the i-Pod doesn't have it's good points, but
what I am saying is that it has quite a few drawbacks that most people
don't even comprehend when they buy into the thing.
Because the iPod has such a high % of the market it becomes the future
for everyone, even those who do
Michaelwagner Wrote:
OK, guys, this thread is getting snarley.
There's no need to be offensive.
I posted it as a humourous web page that I happened to come across. The
intention was to foster a light-hearted smile on a few faces, not to
become the focus for acrimony.
Your statement I
jbuccino Wrote:
Your statement I wonder if the cord on the ear phones is strong enough
to strangle them. set quite a different tone for me. Perhaps I missed
the intended humor.What you missed is that it wasn't my statement. I was
quoting the web
site whose link I provided. I just went back
You are correct. I did not realize you were quoting. Sorry for the
misunderstanding.
- Joe
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iPods are for sheep. We know this because the ear buds and cord are
white, in order to match the color of the wool.
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