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Curtis said he bought a comparable iRiver digital music player with 20 gigabytes of memory, for much cheaper, about $180 on eBay. (An iPod with 20 gigabytes of memory starts at $299).

hmm, comparing the price of an mp3 player on eBay to the full retail price of an iPod.  It would have made more of a point to compare the retail prices of both.  Doesn't he realize that eBay has iPods too?  I'm not saying they go for as low as $180 for 20 GB, but they aren't $299.  And if you don't need 20 GB, go to eBay to find one with 10 or 15 or get a mini.

Last edited by joshlocker (2005-08-15 2:31 pm)

It's funny how Apple bashers so often resort to calling Steve Jobs an idiot, or pronouncing his name phonetically (burn?), or calling Mac and iPod users losers.  Or calling Apple a cult.  Instead of calling people names, why not write an article?  Oh wait, someone did.  Actually a lot of someones did.  And the only ones that achieved any merit?  Those that stuck to the facts:  some people don't like iPods, they are fairly pricey, and originally they only worked with Macs.

Of course when they only worked with Macs they were criticized strongly.  But when they introduced iTunes for Windows, they were accused of selling out, in some cases by the same people who criticized them of only working with Apple hardware.  Am I seeing a pattern here?

omg someone posted something bad about the iPod after years of great press help

So, the guy was upset that the iPods caused his friends to talk monotonously about iPods.  Sounds like his friends suck, not the device.

Also - who cares if you don't want 1.7 million songs with you!  This is in every anti-iPod article ever, and completely misses the whole reason the damn thing is popular.

/preaching to the choir

If iPods are a status symbol, who bought iPods in the first place?
I like having my 2579 songs with me everywhere I go.
I do think that a lot of people who have iPods shouldn't. The people who have less than 100 songs.

And I was using my iPod as an external hard drive for a while too.
If I didn't have an iPod I'd get an MP3 cd player.

Some people are just stupid. Like the writer of that article.

Wow. That sure is a lot of words for "I wish I could afford an iPod, but instead I'm going to whine about it."

Apple has shunned the creation of software that would makes computers compatible with Microsoft's Windows applications.


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what the smurf does that even mean?

-Tim

So you only like better products when no one else recognizes them as being better products?  That's twisted, man.

How's that twisted?  Mac addicts have been doing that for years.

From the article: 

The iPod's success is purely a product of good marketing, not a superior product, he said.

That's true.   For OS X users,  the iPod is the most obvious and best choice.  However, there are better audio players out there if you don't use OS X.

Last edited by Habs24 (2005-08-17 8:16 pm)

Habs24 wrote:

[However, there are better audio players out there if you don't use OS X.

I haven't heard that from my windows ipod owning friends.

Habs24 wrote:

MuckSavage wrote:

Habs24 wrote:

[However, there are better audio players out there if you don't use OS X.

I haven't heard that from my windows ipod owning friends.

And your windows ipod owning friends represents the entire PC using demographics, right?

And your opinion represents truth?

Podesta wrote:

Habs, you do realize that most iPod owners are Windows users, right?

And most PC users own a copy of Windows 2000 or XP, but that doesn't mean it's the best OS available for them.

This just in...

ScifiterX wrote:

It's doesn't mean it's the worst OS for them either. (I'd personally say that honor belongs to Me.)...

ScifiterX say's he's the wost OS. 

Habs24 wrote:

So you only like better products when no one else recognizes them as being better products?  That's twisted, man.

How's that twisted?  Mac addicts have been doing that for years.

I don't know why I bother.  You're not going to get this.

MacAddicts have been liking better products despite the fact that no one else recognizes them as being better products.  If everyone suddenly recognized the fact that Macs are better, it wouldn't change us liking macs.

His story is different.  The product didn't change, the number of people who like it did, now he doesn't like it.  He's changing his mind about appreciating the product once it became too popular.