a bit of dirty trick with the nano - After building up a mass audience and marketshare with the iPod (and although I'm not a fan, I admit it does look a quality product), they've cut corners and be a bit cheap skate for the nano with the hope that people will buy it on the strength of the iPod brand. Basically they got greedy, and I hope their brand suffers because of this. There does seem to a bit of a blind faith by many about Apple being this amazing brand, but by abusing customers like this, I hope people begin to realize it is a lot of hype, and that they are products of similar quality out there from the likes of Creative and Sony.
but my only concern is that having a standard machine like that means that as soon as any weakness or security is found, hackers could have thousands of easy targets.
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a bit of dirty trick with the nano - After building up a mass audience and marketshare with the iPod (and although I'm not a fan, I admit it does look a quality product), they've cut corners and be a bit cheap skate for the nano with the hope that people will buy it on the strength of the iPod brand. Basically they got greedy, and I hope their brand suffers because of this. There does seem to a bit of a blind faith by many about Apple being this amazing brand, but by abusing customers like this, I hope people begin to realize it is a lot of hype, and that they are products of similar quality out there from the likes of Creative and Sony.
but my only concern is that having a standard machine like that means that as soon as any weakness or security is found, hackers could have thousands of easy targets.