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5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod
TommyH1000 writes "CNet has posted an article with five reasons not to buy an iPod. " The article really just shows the major shortcomings with the iPod (Battery, Cost, Moving Parts etc) and gives several alternatives. A great summary of the major things going on in the portable MP3 player market.
"Don't buy it"
"We love it, but it doesn't blah blah blah blah...."
"But it's still the best"
Thanks for nothing....
So how do I moderate a CNet article as (-1, Flamebait)?
hell hath no fury like a mac addict unfavorably reviewed.
And your MP3 player won't skip, either. Because it will be cushioned by about $380 in cash.
and they all start with an $
You forget numbers 1 and 2 do not apply. Who leaves their computer for more than 6 hours at a time? And come on! No one here actually goes outside and runs.
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not that I'm comparing and iPod to the above, but I'm sure you could somehow mangle those reasons to argue against anything that costs more than dree-fiddy.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but three
1 - the things in the list have nothing to do with technological flaws with the unit itself.
2- the author's expectations for battery life versus product size exceed that of most major military technologies.
3- I, like the author, need a bigger paycheck so I don't have to buy cheap, lower quality music devices all the time.
4- Making high quality digital recordings is something I should be able to do from a $500 device that fits in my pocket.
5- The picture of the author inspires me to buy a new pair of headphones.
All will be fine until, of course, you find out you really like iTunes.
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It also has tested as better sounding at lower bitrates, and supports bitrate peeling, which allows you to reshape a file on the fly for differing circumstances.
Ground Control to Yoda Doll...
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Pull up the article, and check out the picture of the author, "Eliot Van Buskirk". Yeah, look real close. Look familiar? Tried the old Superman/Clark Kent trick of taking off his glasses. Threw on some headphones just to be extra careful.
Well nice try Bill, but we're on to you. Your FUD isn't going to work this time!
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Dot.Com.CEO?????? What the hell is this, the 90s?
...what if I want to go jogging for 30 hours and don't want to carry a pack of CDs with me? Then what? Huh? ;P
Un-news
Ogg make electronic death ray with power of alternating current! Ogg create industrial paridise and end warfare by bringing world closer together! Ogg hate fucking Edison!
but if you have to burn hundreds of individual songs (from the ol'napster days)
Can we take this to mean that you are one of the unAmerican bastards that didn't delete all his music?
Of course they're stretching. Skipping? Come on, geeks don't jog, silly.
If Ogg hates fucking Edison, then maybe he should put that corpse back in the ground where it belongs.
Sorry.... had to be done.
This was *precisely* the point of the article: that the iPod is a great overall player, but that it can be beaten in particular niche areas by more specialized tools. The parent isn't "insightful" - all he did was understand the point the author was making. Congratulations.
1. Amount of content is not sufficient
Compared a sample web page from CNET to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and found the Dostoevsky's single book to provide far more content that CNET single web page.
2. Switching screens while viewing CNET is not cool
Compared switching between CNET web site screens and found it was no where near the fun of pushing buttons to switch screens on our new 42" Pioneer Plasma TV.
3. CNET is slow
Compared the load times of cnet.com and found the page load times to be significantly slower than localhost.com. What gives CNET? can we have a little optimization?
4. CNET does not allow to make high quality margaritas
Once again CNET faltered when compared to our new KitchenAid blender when it came to making margaritas. We were not even able to find any third party accessories to add this functionality to our CNET homepage.
5. You want a choice in online advertising
You would think that with an article on the Ipod you would atleast be able to check prices on it as they provide for most of the other players.
.... . Don't recording engineers spend years of time in the studio to learn how to properly EQ whatever they're recording?
I don't give a rat's ass how many years some recording engineer spends learning how to properly EQ something. What I do care about is that the music sounding good to me. What is more reasonable--adjusting my EQ so that I like the sound or going out and spending money on "good,good speakers or headphones" in the hopes that I will like the result?
Maybe the average person doesnt understand an EQ, but that hardly makes "giving the general public an EQ" a "huge mistake".
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