Life's Little Rants #3: iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!!
Hey! Did you hear about this new thing called an "iPod"? iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod! It plays your music, it has some games installed, it plays your music. Uuuuhhhh...iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!! OH! I almost forgot! Now that you have your iPod, they have new iPods that store and show your personal pictures, too! In color! Wow! iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!! Aren't they stylish? Aren't they sleek? Aren't they pretty? "Aren't they expensive?" Well, that doesn't matter, because everybody has one, so if you don't have one already, you need one now! iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!! Got your iPod? Good! Because now the NEW iPods play videos! Also in color! Your iPod is old! It's so yesterday! You got it yesterday? Well, that explains it! Get one today, and be cool and beautiful like the people in our non-stop advertising! iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!! Where can you get songs for your iPod? Where else? iTunes!!! iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!! Got another brand of mp3 player, and you'd like to get some songs from iTunes? Tough crap! iPod, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano...
iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!!
Do you get the impression that I don't like iPods? Well, you would be wrong. I have no problem with the actual invention whatsoever. What I dislike is the hype surrounding it, and the fact that a ton of other, better, brands of mp3 players out there are virtually ignored, and all the attention is being payed to one single brand, simply because it was pretty much the first one to come along, and it's become trendy. I absolutely hate it when an item is stuck with a stereotype name like has become the norm for all mp3 players. People ask me about my "iPod", and I think about throttling them and yelling, "It's not a fucking iPod!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!" But to avoid being arrested for battery, I simply correct them and continue listening to my music.
I don't need games. I don't need to look at pictures and videos. I don't need a color screen. I don't want to look cool. I want to listen to my music, pure and simple. I have 40GB of space which holds every cd in my collection, plus a shitload of extra space for all the music I've downloaded, as well. At last count, I have over 5,800 songs. No videos, no pictures...just songs. As an added bonus, my player acts as an external hard-drive if I need a little extra storage space. And finally, I don't know if you could call this a bonus or not, but I've never had any problems with it. I've read about people having all kinds of problems with the iPods, all of which I refuse to dedicate any further space to.
Suffice it to say, I'm happy with my purchase. When I purchased my player, it cost me nearly half of what the iPod 40GB costs! I'd rather save some money and have it play my music than to pay that much more just because of it's name. I'd rather have a quality product than a trendy piece of crap that's probably going to break down within a week of buying it. There's other brands now that have iPod-like features for less money, more features than mine, but all I need is to listen to my music.
I'm not knocking people for buying iPods. Hell, everybody has a right to do what they want with their money, and everybody has a right to follow trends if they want. I'm not saying I bought mine simply because it's not an iPod. I'd like to think I bought it because I did my homework and got something good for my money.
Ok, so I named my player "The antiPod". Big deal.
So thank you, Creative, for making a quality, affordable product. Not much more to say, except that if my Nomad Zen Xtra ever poops out one of these days, heaven forbid, I will seriously consider picking up your new Zen "Vision:M" player (recent winner of "Best In Show" at CES 2006).
iPod, iPod, iPod, iPod!!!
Do you get the impression that I don't like iPods? Well, you would be wrong. I have no problem with the actual invention whatsoever. What I dislike is the hype surrounding it, and the fact that a ton of other, better, brands of mp3 players out there are virtually ignored, and all the attention is being payed to one single brand, simply because it was pretty much the first one to come along, and it's become trendy. I absolutely hate it when an item is stuck with a stereotype name like has become the norm for all mp3 players. People ask me about my "iPod", and I think about throttling them and yelling, "It's not a fucking iPod!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!" But to avoid being arrested for battery, I simply correct them and continue listening to my music.
I don't need games. I don't need to look at pictures and videos. I don't need a color screen. I don't want to look cool. I want to listen to my music, pure and simple. I have 40GB of space which holds every cd in my collection, plus a shitload of extra space for all the music I've downloaded, as well. At last count, I have over 5,800 songs. No videos, no pictures...just songs. As an added bonus, my player acts as an external hard-drive if I need a little extra storage space. And finally, I don't know if you could call this a bonus or not, but I've never had any problems with it. I've read about people having all kinds of problems with the iPods, all of which I refuse to dedicate any further space to.
Suffice it to say, I'm happy with my purchase. When I purchased my player, it cost me nearly half of what the iPod 40GB costs! I'd rather save some money and have it play my music than to pay that much more just because of it's name. I'd rather have a quality product than a trendy piece of crap that's probably going to break down within a week of buying it. There's other brands now that have iPod-like features for less money, more features than mine, but all I need is to listen to my music.
I'm not knocking people for buying iPods. Hell, everybody has a right to do what they want with their money, and everybody has a right to follow trends if they want. I'm not saying I bought mine simply because it's not an iPod. I'd like to think I bought it because I did my homework and got something good for my money.
Ok, so I named my player "The antiPod". Big deal.
So thank you, Creative, for making a quality, affordable product. Not much more to say, except that if my Nomad Zen Xtra ever poops out one of these days, heaven forbid, I will seriously consider picking up your new Zen "Vision:M" player (recent winner of "Best In Show" at CES 2006).
posted by aboynamedjimmy at 11:11 PM
2 Comments:
Having a preference for flash memory devices over hard drives, I've had Creative's Muvo. It was pretty good. I upgraded to a larger capacity one and gave away my old one, and after about a year it crapped out on me. I wasn't thrilled, but I hadn't spent that much on the thing. I've considered the Zen (although Creative has this thing against doing firmware upgrades to support Ogg Vorbis, which the iRiver does... but that's a political rant on my part.) Anyway, all of this just to heartily agree with you that a music player should play music, and that Apple, like the two major political parties, is all hype and style and only marginal and accidental substance (oh, wait, you didn't actually say that, did you? ;-)
Well, I can always rely on you for the big words that escape me, so your additional input is appreciated. :-)
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