I Want An iPod
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Like everybody else I suppose ;). Although I have a good reason **cough**. I’ve been using a portable car cd player for years now which is I think about 10 years old, and it’s starting to die… The sound quality isn’t very good anymore and falls away at times.
I’m also a bit tired of burning cd’s that I listen to only a few times, and I’m a bit tired of the clicks whenever I bump against it. The iPod Nano 4GB is the solution I think ;).
Lots of space (about 48 hours of music at 192 kbps), no clicking, etc. I could use it for jogging, I could use it at uni for background music, I could use it for the few podcasts I’ve started listening to recently, etc. And last but not least… it’s way much smaller and lighter, so I wouldn’t have to drag that big thing along anymore as well as my bag with cd’s…
Anybody feel like buying me one? :D
Tijl Kindt
whatever u do, NEVER EVER EVER fall into the trap of buying an iPod, or any other apple (R) product, 7/10 ppl i know that own iPods, have problems with them, the battery life is short, its VERY prone to breaking, and the “ON” button seems to mess up… I have registered my trust in Creative products, which happen to be better :P
- apple can burn downstairs!
February 7th, 2006 at 21:34
Maybe it’s only the friends that have problems with them that tell you they have one ;).
February 8th, 2006 at 0:14
I’ve been very happy with my MP3 player, though it’s rather small compared to the iPod, only 512 MB, but I’ve had no problems with battery life (more often than not I’m happily surprised by how long it lasts). It’s a Philips KeyAudio device, and the model line received a facelift pretty soon after I bought it. Looks rather nicer now. I think they have a 1GB version as well; but the 512 MB is quite enough for me as I don’t go jogging for two days at a time (and anyway, I mostly listen to stuff I can bear hearing more than once a day ;-).
February 8th, 2006 at 18:12
I agree with the Anarchist. Down with Apple! We don’t need thier overpriced music storage devices. No longer shall we blindly bow down to fascist iTunes governance! Cast aside any thought of an IPOD and turn away from the evil that is Apple Software!
February 9th, 2006 at 21:24
Well… I hate to go against the popular opinion here, but I have a 4G IPod, that I’ve had for quite a while now. No problems, uploads and downloads work fine, I get stuff off of LimeWire and my own collection just fine, etc. As far as battery life, it will usually last the day of just listening around the house, not to mention, it’s my car stereo, and home stereo system. All in all, there are FAR worse products out there. ITunes IS a bit of a monopoly, but if you can’t find alternatives out there, for free, I don’t know what to tell you bud. Just do some Googling or check Slashdot for some good alternatives to ITunes.
Good luck in getting your Pod, bud. :)
July 17th, 2006 at 19:04
More iPod phone rumours surface… :)
And it’s Apple perpetuating them
Apple recently hinted at exciting developments in the digital music market.
While no new product announcements were disclosed during last night’s financial results announcement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said: “The iPod continued to earn a US market share of over 75 per cent and we are extremely excited about future iPod products in our pipeline.”
Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said: “Apple is investing heavily in iPod and iTunes engineering and is very enthusiastic about products in the pipeline.”
Oppenheimer also dropped Apple’s biggest suggestion yet that it has plans to deliver a hybrid mobile phone iPod, saying: “We don’t think that the phones that are available today make the best music players. We think the iPod is. But over time, that is likely to change, and we are not sitting around doing nothing.”
The company released statistics that showed iPod sales contributed $1.4bn (about ?760m) in revenue to the company’s $4.4bn (?2.4bn) revenue overall. That’s a climb of 36 percent compared with the same quarter last year.
Apple’s ‘Other Music Products’ category – a general gathering that includes iTunes sales, iPod accessories and other services (presumably including revenue under its ‘Made for iPod’ scheme) popped another $457m (?248m) into the company coffers. This statistic is one of the most impressive on the company’s books, as it represents a 90 percent rise year on year.
Citing research data from NPD, GFK and BCN, Apple confirmed that the iPod accounts for 75 per cent of the US MP3 player market, and that it’s the top-selling music player in the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Italy and Japan.
iTunes – which now offers a US catalogue of three million songs, 9,000 music videos and 150 TV programmes – grabbed an impressive slice of 85 per cent of the pay-to-own digital music market, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
July 20th, 2006 at 13:28