Quote:They are just terrible products, with terrible interfaces, with terrible quality for money, terrible help assistance.
I have had a few of them, and I have to say the interface is probably the best. I have used philips, creative & archos, and it beats all those for interface ;)
Quote:The iPods.. the batterys last about 8 hours max, they batteries tend to die within a year, where you have to get another one for £50. The nano's are £150 for 1/2gb of music. What a rip off. You could buy a 400gb hard drive for that price. There are so many other kinds of mp3 players eg. iRiver's.
Agree with you there bud, $hit battery and not the cheapest..
Quote:The iPods iTunes which you are CURRENTLY forced to use to import the music,
Naw, theres many alternatives.
Quote:music is embedded with DRM, (Digital Rights Management) which does not allow you to burn the music to a CD.
That ain't much to do w/the iPod. I never buy from there. I just import the music downloaded from p2p/buy from the shops.
Quote:The iPods also, have a pathetic "don't steal music.." policy. Where if you wish to put a mate's songs on your iPod, or your songs onto their PC.. it will ask you if you want to register the computer with the iPod. If you click no, you cannot access the iPod or it's contents. If you click Yes.. - ALL THE SONGS WITHIN THE IPOD ARE IMMEDIATELY DELETED.
Though there are ways around it, 'tis bloody annoying when all the other mp3 players have a drag & drop feature
Quote:People have to become aware of just how crap these devices are. There have no more use than that of a cheese grater :)
I like my iPod 'cuz I like the smart playlists. You can customize where you put your music in the iPod like no other.
But the main thing is that iPods are crap value so I won't be getting another one =)
I am new to the forums. Why is everyone so horrible to each other. I thought the idea was to help. Anyway, I have had a H10 since August and I am really happy with it. I have had absolutely no problems at all, the software is very easy to use once you have had a play around with it and the firmware is very easy to upgrade. All in all i am extremely satisfied. My daughter own an mini ipod and it wasnt even 12 months old before I have to send it back to replace the battery and then I got charged $20 (Australian) for the postage. The iriver comes with a battery that you can replace without having to send the unit back.
Apple will try and scrounge every penny then can off their customers. They even went ahead and released the iPod Nano knowing full well the screens were defective. So much for customer satisfaction.
