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Will the iPod Ever Die?
Azhar writes "Will we always prefer the iPod's glossy slim design over all the others? Or at one point of time will the iPod revolution actually fade? Lets have a look at what could happen and why."
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When did fanboi blog pieces become post worthy articles? Given the clear bias of that article I feel the need to respond and expound on why the iPod WILL DIE and lose a few karma points in the process. I also intend to be biased and obnoxious in response to said article.
1) They are just not cool
Apple is quickly losing its coolness factor with both the iPod and the Mac. Apple's control over the way its products look actually works against it as its products become more popular - I walked into a cafe last semester and saw a lovely row of people, all yuppies btw, using shiny white macbooks and it looked pretty damn ridiculous. Play count the white headphones once and then ask yourself if you want to buy a regulation white iPod. Yes its a landmark for miniturization that apple can make the shuffle so small that it can fit up your arse hole but making things small isn't the same as making things cool and it certainly isn't making them usable. (Reall fanboi's point 4) belongs here - he tries to make it a seperate idea but really its just one disjointed rant)
2) Its known... to be defective
Survey this page for the number of comments about defective batteries - sure you can get them replaced - or even buy a player in which they don't faint in the first place.
3) Price for features
the ipod looks competetive on price until you compare a feature list. Fanboi argues that people don't care about functionality and only simple looks and shiny colors. I don't. Give me an FM tuner and a voice recorder please - wihtout me paying 40 bucks for it. Zune will have Wifi and it won't be long before someone figures out how to connect it to the web.
4) see 1)
5) You go girl - accesorize that mutha!
Mmm iSkins for your iPod and headphones with glowing wires! Wee! Wear you glowing wire headphones - I think you look fucking ridiculous just like the idiots with those glowing rims for his car. Yes, please enjoy that fancy dock - I'm sniggering at you paying more than 100 bucks for a pair of crappy sounding speakers and a plasticky remote. That you don't use because you listen to your music from your shiny white macbook at home. With widgets!
6)The dinosaurs didn't like to change either
Fanboi claims that you will never change from an iPod if it was your first player and IF it worked well for you. So now that we've lost all those people who've had to change their battery or can't read the nano's screen anymore or found that click wheel unresponsive one morning, and all those people who are so sick of seeing everyone with whiteheadphones(TM) and all those poor cash strapped students who will happily save fifty bucks for noname player how many does that leave. Yours was alwaysa lonely world fanboi...
7) oooh fancy bigger hard drives! and a color screen!
Everyone has been introducing bigger drives - really fanboi actaully read release information before blogging. There really is a size limit for things beyond which there is not much point in making them smaller. I can wire up a really tiny calculator but its useless if you can't press its buttons. Unless your in Gitmo and Apple makes that iPhone you've not much need of something that can be lodged up your nether regions. And if Apple makes that iphone or that touch/widescreen ipod I will laugh as you get suckered into an even more rapid charge discharge cycle for that Li ion battery.
8)If you think MS is bad...
Apple is rapidly becoming a company that drops buzzwords and gives you useless users iCandy. Yes cocoa, yes shiny metal Aqua, yes expose - so pretty and so utterly pointless. Yes you love that little widget that tells you what the weather is now, so that you can look at it and be entirely confident that its 58 and its raining, and you no longer have to look out that little window (yes the real world thing that goes in a wall and occasionally has curtains) OOOOH a calculator widget - too bad you still haven't figured out order of operations from primary school and still can't add and divide. You brag about iLife but al
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
No, asswipe, I should have the CHOICE whether I want to tag my files or not.
As for your "Snoop Dogg" (which isn't music BTW)
It was an example, dumbshit. Get a clue.
just read about "smart playlists",
So-called smart playlists is the dumbest idea I have ever seen. I don't need Jobs and cos. iTMS crapware algorithmically mis-predicting what I want to listen to. A person that primarily listens on shuffle will find smart playlists to be quite "dumb" to say the least.
When you're done polishing Jobs dick, please crawl back into your hole and stay there.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.