As a company, I hate Apple. I can't stand watching their circle jerk conferences because Steve Jobs comes off as a smug arrogant bastard, and if that "Pirates of Silicon Valley" movie is to be believed, he is. These days the only things their computers have going for them is looks. The specs are nothing special. You could build a much more powerful PC yourself and stick OSX on it for a lower cost. Sadly not many people seem to notice this and people buy trash like the Macbook Air by the truckload.
Anyway, there's one thing Apple have always had over the competition - the iPod. No, not the touch. They're more fancy useless trash. 8gb for $50 less than a 160gb classic? What a joke. So, I bought a 160gb classic, since it will probably be the biggest iPod they make. Even if they do make something bigger, it's big enough for me.
I just wish it would work properly. For the last week every time I plug it in to my PC it freezes. iTunes picks it up and says it needs to be formatted for PC, so I click OK and iTunes freezes. Then I usually just unplug the iPod and reset it by doing the menu+select thing and it works when I plug it in again. Today though, it hasn't worked. iTunes won't start and my iPod won't reset. It seems I'm not the only one with the problem as well. How could Apple have got this so wrong? The 2 other iPods I've owned worked flawlessly.
Granted there was a lot less to go wrong in my 2nd gen - there wasn't many features to break. The 5th gen had a lot more features but it was rock solid. From what I can see the classic only adds a couple of features over the 5G but it feels like I'm using beta firmware. I wish I knew why it was so bad. Doesn't technology usually get better with progress? Now I have to leave my iPod sitting there doing nothing until the battery dies. I'm sure 2 days of the same text on the LCD will be GREAT for it.
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