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Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
To each...
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Originally posted by Dave Lenton:
...I don't have to use a proprietary file format...
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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
It's like entire school classes demanding from their parent to be given a specific brand and model of shoes because the leader of the sports team has them.
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
One reason for that is the "wake" of products that follow along behind the iPod, making it, in effect, a broader solution.
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Q: Is the iPod's battery user-replaceable?
A1: Yes and no. The iPod's case is not designed to be opened, so, in that respect, it's not what would generally be referred to as "user-replaceable". But, [...]
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Originally posted by Dave Lenton:
I recently purchased a Zen Sleek, rather then going for an iPod. It may be ugly as hell and have an interface which makes unix seem intuitive, but its cheaper then an iPod, I don't have to use a proprietary file format, it includes a radio, and sounds great.
Hank
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Originally posted by marc weber:
But the "iDon't" campaign seems awfully iRonic: Targeting "free thinkers" and "contrarians" to "reject the oppressive forces of cultural conformity" by using a device tailored to Windows Media?
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Originally posted by Mani Venkatesan:
And for the poster with 14 GB more space, is that a flash disk based player? I use mine a lot while exercising and feel comfortable knowing that there is no hard disk to conk out.
Hank
Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
I've never seen the appeal of the things.
They look like cheap molten plastic (just like Macs) to me, overexpensive gadgets...
Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
To each... I find the iPod to be lickably beautiful (just like Macs) and so natural and easy to use it's almost as if it's reading my mind....
Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
... But in this case, it's an easy sell because they really are the best shoes!
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
Yeah -
It seems like the battery thing took the whole design sensibility idea a little too far...
Or look at the iPod. You can't change the battery. So when the battery dies, too bad. Get a new iPod. Actually, Apple will replace it if you send it back to the factory, but that costs $65.95. Wowza.
Why can't you change the battery?
My theory is that it's because Apple didn't want to mar the otherwise perfectly smooth, seamless surface of their beautiful, sexy iPod with one of those ghastly battery covers you see on other cheapo consumer crap, with the little latches that are always breaking and the seams that fill up with pocket lint and all that general yuckiness. The iPod is the most seamless piece of consumer electronics I have ever seen. It's beautiful. It feels beautiful, like a smooth river stone. One battery latch can blow the whole river stone effect.
Apple made a decision based on style, in fact, iPod is full of decisions that are based on style. And style is not something that 100 programmers at Microsoft or 200 industrial designers at the inaptly-named Creative are going to be able to achieve, because they don't have Jonathan Ive, and there aren't a heck of a lot of Jonathan Ives floating around.
I'm sorry, I can't stop talking about the iPod. That beautiful thumbwheel with its little clicky sounds ... Apple spent extra money putting a speaker in the iPod itself so that the thumbwheel clicky sounds would come from the thumbwheel. They could have saved pennies ... pennies! by playing the clicky sounds through the headphones. But the thumbwheel makes you feel like you're in control. People like to feel in control. It makes people happy to feel in control. The fact that the thumbwheel responds smoothly, fluently, and audibly to your commands makes you happy. Not like the other 6,000 pocket-sized consumer electronics bit of junk which take so long booting up that when you hit the on/off switch you have to wait a minute to find out if anything happened. Are you in control? Who knows? When was the last time you had a cell phone that went on the instant you pressed the on button?
Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Lame. Branding as "sheep" those that choose a popular product not because it's popular, but because it's just flat-out good (accounting for its popularity), is bit "sour grapes".
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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
But how many fall under that description? Likely the majority of the target audience of that commercial ARE sheep
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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
...That's also just about the only reason I can see for replacing your iPod with a new model whenever one is released (rather than when it breaks), yet that is what a LOT of people do.
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
It's a majority by definition, I think. Non-sheep aren't part of the idont target audience, since the ad won't work on them.![]()
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
...Non-sheep aren't part of the idont target audience...
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Originally posted by Max Habibi:
I've never been able to follow this sort of reasoning, since I come from a strong mathematical background. Why is that likely? How is that reasonably founded in your mind?
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Originally posted by marc weber:
Let's see... My iPod mini is 6 GB with a small, low resolution, black and white screen that doesn't display photos or play video. The new models... Yeah, I guess they are exactly the same, so I have no incentive to replace that mini. Thanks for pointing that out!![]()
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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
... But do you have a real (rather than perceived due to marketing and/or peer pressure) need for all those new features? And if you do, does that need justify logically the price you will have to pay to get access to those features?
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