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iPod Video Dissection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-spare-parts-when-you-put-it-back-together dept.

alaswhatever writes "HowStuffWorks has gutted an iPod Video and taken pictures of everything.The article talks about exactly what's inside and explains how the touch-sensitive Click Wheel works." From the article: "Although the iPod is an Apple product, it works with both Mac and Windows machines. Since it's the top-selling media player in the United States, probably the big question is: What makes it different from any other digital media player?"

2 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The 3 reasons for the iPod's rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I love it when Apple-zealotry meets Linux-zealotry.

    You get a faggish hardware adn flaky, half-working software.

    Great.

    Now go stroke your cock and dribble your semen on a picture of Steve "Rim" Jobs.

  2. Re:My Take by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why in hell can't i just drag and drop a file onto the thing ala mass-storage device? and vice-versa?

    It's called Vendor lock-in. Leading companies (and Apple in particular) loves to use it as a weapon to tie up the market. A perfectly good reason to choose something else until Apple stops the practice. History has shown that customers don't care about being locked to a particular company though, look at MS.