Comments on: I’m joining the rest of the hordes… http://blogs.n1zyy.com/trokair/2007/09/06/im-joining-the-rest-of-the-hordes/ It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: n1zyy http://blogs.n1zyy.com/trokair/2007/09/06/im-joining-the-rest-of-the-hordes/#comment-14 n1zyy Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:15:06 +0000 http://blogs.n1zyy.com/trokair/2007/09/06/im-joining-the-rest-of-the-hordes/#comment-14 The Shuffle is kind of cool. It'd be handy for, say, putting a "Jogging Music" playlist on. I wouldn't buy it <i>and</i> another flash-based player, but if I were to just get one, or if my other one were a disk-based one, I'd certainly consider it. The 160GB classic is just obscenely large. (Not that I'm complaining!) I have a 30GB iPod and kind of chuckle at the little bar graph of how much I'm using -- I have 4GB of music and maybe half a gig of movies (TV shows). The iPod Touch is definitely spiffy. I don't get the people complaining about 16GB of storage. (Especially flash-based storage.) Although an iPod Touch (and an iPhone) with the classic's 160GB disk would be <i>incredible</i>! (There was some complaining that there's no 'best' iPod right now -- you could get the Classic if you want lots of space, the Touch for the interface, the Nano for the small size...) The $100 in store credit is a decent compromise, although not as good as just refunding $200. (But then again, what Apple did was just sound business practice -- extracting maximum consumer value...) I'd have handed out $201 (not a typo) in iTMS gift cards myself. I almost feel bad for the Zune. It's probably a good device, but it has so many things wrong... Including the <a href="http://faruk.newsvine.com/_news/2006/11/12/438632-zune-install-screen-raises-eyebrows" rel="nofollow">orgasm</a> [NSFW?] installation picture, their <a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pNJFZtinpKY/RtIv9sbwnpI/AAAAAAAABqQ/78zmM88KWAc/s1600-h/brown.png" rel="nofollow">upside-down logo</a> [NSFW], and the fact that it's... Brown. BUT, it does seem kind of slick, and the FM tuner is a good idea. Overall, I'd call it a good idea but bad implementation. The Shuffle is kind of cool. It’d be handy for, say, putting a “Jogging Music” playlist on. I wouldn’t buy it and another flash-based player, but if I were to just get one, or if my other one were a disk-based one, I’d certainly consider it.

The 160GB classic is just obscenely large. (Not that I’m complaining!) I have a 30GB iPod and kind of chuckle at the little bar graph of how much I’m using — I have 4GB of music and maybe half a gig of movies (TV shows).

The iPod Touch is definitely spiffy. I don’t get the people complaining about 16GB of storage. (Especially flash-based storage.) Although an iPod Touch (and an iPhone) with the classic’s 160GB disk would be incredible! (There was some complaining that there’s no ‘best’ iPod right now — you could get the Classic if you want lots of space, the Touch for the interface, the Nano for the small size…)

The $100 in store credit is a decent compromise, although not as good as just refunding $200. (But then again, what Apple did was just sound business practice — extracting maximum consumer value…) I’d have handed out $201 (not a typo) in iTMS gift cards myself.

I almost feel bad for the Zune. It’s probably a good device, but it has so many things wrong… Including the orgasm [NSFW?] installation picture, their upside-down logo [NSFW], and the fact that it’s… Brown. BUT, it does seem kind of slick, and the FM tuner is a good idea. Overall, I’d call it a good idea but bad implementation.

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