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Alpine to Release iPod Interface in Autumn 2004
jeblucas writes "Not to be outdone by the recent iPod your BMW news, Alpine updated the details on their iPod interface for those of us who want to spend cash on the sound system, rather than the logo. Apparently announced in January (?), this should be available this fall. Sweet! You can ask for more info by emailing Alpine directly."
Dude, if you think all you get with a BMW is a logo, maybe you'd better turn that stereo up until your eardrums burst - because your brain is already hemorrhaging. If I'm in a car it's to drive, and drive I will. Music is nice, but there's no sound like a proper exhaust note at 140mph.
I've never used iTunes (or an iPod), and even I know that:
1) If you're talking about music purchased from the iTunes store, no, you can burn them onto CD essentially as many times as you want.
2) That utterly defeats the purpose of the iPod. I don't want to carry around a stack of CD-Rs when I have an iPod that can store hundreds of CDs worth of music.
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What I never got is why don't they just add an AUX mini-din input on the front of the stereo? You could then just plug a simple cable directly from the iPod/Portable CD/MP3 player into the stereo. It seems like such a simple idea instead of messing with those damn cassette adapters and the quality loss from broadcasting on FM.
iPod this, iPod that. They didn't invent the goddamn MP3 player. Why not just put a "line in" jack on any car stereo so we can use any MP3 player on any car stereo? Or any other audio device for that matter.
Had an MP3 player long before the iPod existed.
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Apple and VW teamed up to offer iPods when you bought a New Beetle. I have a Golf so I was hoping they'd come up with a system that'd tap into the CD changer port. Yet they make a kit for BMWs instead? I can't use that. So I'm probably going to write to Apple and suggest it. Unfortunately, whatever they come up with probably would be for the Golf 5 and wouldn't fit my car anyway. I just can't win.
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This is because the iPod is at the juncture of geek/tech life and what everybody else does. It is rare that something that enraptures us will also interest impress others, like (oh say) a girl or something.
Personally, I'd like to see a lot fewer article about Linux's acceptance or nonacceptance on the desktop, the pervasive attacks on our freedom by DMCA/RFID/PATRIOT/DRM/GWB/Internet Explorer, the sense or nonsense of outsourcing or anything relating to SCO. I mean, come on -- "Darl McBride's toilet overflows, says stolen memcopy algorithm to blame." This is supposed to be "stuff that matters," when indeed it's usually the same shit served up cold with the same for insights modded up (and, you know, anything *I* post).
But the iPod...well, the iPod was something out of left field, and it's something that confounds our community because so many of us still don't understand how it can be so popular when it's so expensive. It's right -- or as right as right can get with software. So what if it's lacking features -- this just goes to show that little features done sloppy aren't worth one feature done well and marketted without prejudice. If we could take that to heart -- make an Open system that had a single high quality choice for every function you could like, instead of one based on thousands of discordant choices -- well, there'd be no stopping us.
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Admittedly, I'll probably buy an iPod long before giving any money to the very proprietary-format-freakish SONY corporation.
Alpine gear has a nice kick to it, and a much cleaner interface than the majority of audio gear. That alone is worth more cash to me. When I'm driving I like to listen to music. What I don't like is a dashboard that's lit up like a fucking circus with whales swimming at me in three dimensions.
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Obviously you've never been to the Western USA. There are more than a few places to go 140mph. I've been going 90mph and been passed by a Semi.
Oh sure, it holds twice as much, by storing files at 64kbps. Go go sound quality! Let's not forget that ATRAC came in last in a public 128kbps sound quality test.
iPod owners don't shop based on price. We shop based on quality. Don't try and argue this. As somebody once said, there's nothing that somebody can't build a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot worse.
This is pure poo poo. I had a 2001 330ci that I just sold and the car, including wipers, has free maintenance. That means that you have basically zero costs (oil changes included) for at least 4 - 5 years. The M3 has the same deal, so the cost of owning the car is essentially ZERO for the first several years. After that, if you don't sell it, get it maintained at a specialist. Any enthusiast will tell you the same thing.
Also, saying the S60R beats the M3 in every department is also not true. On a track, the M3 will eat the S60R - there's more to a car than just stats and how fast you can get to 60mph.
Now I'm not saying the S60R sucks, but just like you can't use stats, you can't just use price either. Passion can't be measured so easily, unfortunately.