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New iPod Design Pictures Leak
Brian Hoyt writes "Apple's new iPod design will be announced Monday. A cover picture depicting the new design from Newsweek has been discovered early. MacRumors broke the story - MacRumors and more specifically the cover itself - NewsWeek"
Yeah, gee, I wonder what SCO is paying Slashdot to post so many SCO lawsuit stories?...Oh wait! They're not! Slashdot is about technology and geekery and all things associated with it, including things like Intellectual Property and MP3 players and so on.
If you have some sort of evidence of Slashdot stories being paid placements, please share said information with the rest of us...otherwise, stop speculating in such a way as to call into question the ethics of the editors.
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Now THIS is big news. An MP3 player. Wow.
As lovely as the iPod is, I don't ever see myself buying one.
Firstly, I'm not happy with something that doesn't give you a sensible method of putting tracks on it, cross platform.
Secondly, I want somthing that plays a format that other people don't control the rights to.
Thirdly, they're just too damn expensive.
So, I think I'll buy an iRiver instead.
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
do Macpeople in general get so excited about new products Apple announces it will release on schedule or be delayed? Are they that unhappy with what they have now?
Yes you could take this as a troll (which now it won't be because I said the t-word). It is interesting is it not? Interesting...
I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
We just /.'ed Newsweek! lmao!!!
I know I'll be flamed to a crisp by the iPod-weilding overlords here, but am I the only one to ask: what's the big deal? So, iPod drops a couple of buttons and looks like a mini; so what? Dropping a couple of buttons and/or adding buttons is not a radical design change. Why's everyone in a frenzy over this little crumb from Apple?
My asshole has more hair !! Want some ??
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This is basically a modernized walkman without removeable media, right? Why all the hoopla about them removing some buttons from it?
What a great overpriced MP3 player!
They feel cheap like they would break if you dropped it 2 feet, I think I'll wait for the Sony *walkman* version they tend to build better stuff than Apple.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
The day you can plug in the USB plug into my Wintel computer and just dump .mp3 files onto the iPod - have the iPod figure out what they are and let me play them is the day I go buy one.
.mp3's over the USB onto a hard drive when it really isn't necessary.
This business of 'let Apple install a bunch of shit on your computer and force you to move your files onto the iPod using our proprietary software and interface' is a bunch of crap. Every other player out there does it (except Sony's mini-disk, which can eat a bag of dicks) so I can't fathom why Apple doesn't.
I really want one, but I'll be damned if I'm going to install some loader to move
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
I've been thinking about picking an ipod up for a while now but have been kept from doing so by all the negative press about the dead battery issue and the high replacement costs. Has Apple done anything about that yet and how much is it to replace the battery nowadays?
Ya, because hotlinking their images is your inalienable right and anybody that tries to prevent that, and save their unsubsidized bandwidth is a bastard. You're a real nice guy, all right.
Dude, seriously, you have a problem with that? Windows is, has, and always will be, completely non-standard, for good reason. Jesus, the drivers you need to even see the screen will be some third-party, propreitary, non-free thing. Having some drivers for your iPod is the last thing that should be bothering you about Windows. At least they run a small chance of crashing your machine.
You really need to chill out. Hit the decaff, and get over it.
And this has to happen just one month after i bought my brand new 40 gig. Steve Jobs, you fucker!
If I only wanted to transport files I would burn them to DVD and take them with me. The whole appeal of the iPod isn't moving files around, it is playing them as music - and to do that you need to upload them using some bullshit loader. Perhaps the linux crowd has rubbed off on me a little, I'm thinking Free as in Freedom.
Maybe I'm wrong, but according to the documentation if you are going to play the file as music, you are putting it on the iPod via the AppleSoft loader software.
I've got nothing to add...just repeating that guy's comments so the "Mod anything that doesn't kiss Apple's ass as 'troll'" crowd will have to waste more of their moderator points.
There is Linux software to do the magic necessary to get an iPod to recognize music that you copy to it, so you can basically get around this flaw of the iPod.
It may surprise some Mac users, but some of us actually have our music organized on our hard drives using directories. When we want to play an album, we go to the directory that it is in, and tell our MP3 player software to simply play all the files in that directory. We don't need or use playlists. When we use a portable, we don't want fancy syncing software. We just want to copy our files from our hard disk, organized the way we've organized them there, and then on the player select directories and say "play everything there".
So marketshare only doesn't matter in markets where Apple has a dominant marketshare?
OK, that's cool. Just making sure I understand the double standard.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
FYI nobody cares what mp3 player you use. Stop acting like they do.