Re: iPods and iTunes going the way of the dinosaur

In article
<058f5bd6-6966-40bf-8b3f-a87a5710b0e9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
solletica@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jan 19, 10:24 pm, Mitch <mi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <4790c423$0$26033$88260...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,Ubergeek



<superkill...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can u believe it? Well, of course we can, duh. In an age of technology
competition, Macintards have always embraced the inept, lethargic losing
side. Oh yes, I'm being too harsh--maybe I should've taken note of
Apple's FIVE PERCENT MARKET SHARE in the PC and server market. LOL!

Now let's get to the meat of it. We all remember how Macintards were
going gaga when the iPod and iTunes came out. "OH HOW COOL THE FIRST
PORTABLE MUSIC PLAYER EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! SUPERCOOOOOOL
WHAT WILL THE GENIUS JOBS DO NEXT?!!!!"

Well we all know what REAL geniuses would do (LOL!), but unfortunately
for Apple, the iTunes music store and its silly associated gadget iPod
has now become totally obsolete. Its contemporaries in the music market
(emusic, Amazon) are now embracing watermarking and hi-fi MP3 files,
which consumers like since they can play it ANY MP3 player, instead of
just Apple's primitive cigar lighter. Lets we not state the obvious,
practically every other digital player on the market outshines the iPod
(i. e. Cowon, iRiver, . . .).

The fact that Apple requires the incredibly slow, overbloated
monument-to-itself iTunes software/protocol to even interface with its
cigar lighter, in comparison to its competitors merely appearing as a
mountable flash drive on a PC (which makes it easy to work w/Windows as
well as Linux and BSD), is, of course, a big part of it, coupled with
Jobs' stupid decision (ah yeah, we lost count of those years ago) to
require iPod batteries to work with its player instead of any old AAA
cell.

But to make a long story short, why the hell would any sensible person
buy an iPod when he/she can buy a competing player, NOT having to hassle
w/iTunes, silly batteries, and be able to download music from stores
superior to iTunes?

I have to stand back now--the sound/mess of a zillion macintards head
exploding ain't a pretty sight. EEEK!

(well maybe they'll just clean up the mess with an iMop. . .)

Please note some of the inane, stupid and inarguably wrong 'facts' of
this "ubergeek" moron:



Apple is portrayed as slow and lethargic, even though they lead almost
everyone in almost everything.

Really? Apple has only 4-5% of the desktop market, and 0% of the
server market, for a grand total of 4-5% of the market.

Windows has 96% of the desktop market, and 50% of the server market.

Linux and other UNIX variants have 2.5% of the desktop market and 50%
of the server market.

He implies that having a 5% market share means something.

5% doesn't seem like much. Dunno if I'd call it "something."

He claims Mac users claimed iPod was the first portable music player; I
doubt anyone has believed that, and most have noted it was not.
He claims iPod has become totally obsolete (as a music player?) even
though he offers not a single reason or fact for saying it.

Most people are buying their music from Amazon now, since their tracks
are all DRM-free 256 kbps and you can just download it there without
using any iTunes/iTunes-related software.

He notes that other companies are mimicking Apple's online store,

Really? How is not requiring iTunes MIMICHING Apple's store?

but
decides that indicates Apple did everything wrong, even though they do
all the same things.
He calls Apple's player a 'primitive cigar lighter) even though it
excels in every category and has the most useful, necessary, even
enjoyable features of music players.

The iPod doesn't even offer a flash drive memory system. It also has
poorer sound quality compared to Cowon. It also doesn't even support
the popular FLAC lossless codec.

(If iPod is a failure in these
ways, then so is every other player!) He offers not a single reason for
calling every other player (literally every one!) superior.
He insists iTunes music cannot be played in other players, which is
bluntly wrong and stupid.
He claims competing stores with smaller catalogs provide music that can
play in any player, but claims iPods must buy from iTunes, or that you
can't put it into iPods.
He calls iTunes bloated; compare it to WMP or the awful interface of
most other players. It's downright elegant, beautifully made, and
offers some of the most important and best features to be found
anywhere.

All the other competing players can do the exact same thing the iPod
can do, PLUS more (i. e. play FLAC files).

iPod lovers just like their iPod because it's been blessed by Jobs.
It's a cult thing.

he chides Apple for choosing their own software to manage music files.
As though any company would prefer to lose control and offer nothing.

Most other players require NO proprietary software/protocols to load
music.

He supports the stupid and clumsy, featureless method of manually
moving music files (by the thousands?) as superior to having it managed
intelligently, cleanly, and automatically.

Competing players:

cp ~/mymusic/*mp3 /mnt/player/

= 1.5 sec. to load ALL tracks

vs.

iPod:

Open iTunes GUI (30 sec., because it's so big and slow)
Click on Menu, then another menu, then push buttons, . . .

= 1 min. to load ONE track

Apple's gives the user
benefits; he claims it's better to have to do everything yourself, one
at a time.
He chides Apple for using long-life internal batteries instead of
running through hundreds of costly common batteries. Who wants to spend
a hundred dollars more per player per year?

Competing players also offer Li-on batteries just like the iPod, but
the competitors ALSO offer simple AA and AAA cell versions, in which
you can put in a Lithium battery (i. e. Energizer e2) which lasts a
very long time, and then recycle it when it's done.

He summarizes the stupidity he's spouted as though no one would ever
notice he's an idiot, that calling hassle-free batteries silly is
ignorant, that calling the best online store dumb or limited is
pointless, and that Apple didn't get all of those things going better
than any other company.
Then he says that it's all _other_ people that have problems with their
heads. Not him; he's got it ALL together. It's everyone else that's
wrong and dumb.

Apple/iPod users sure are proud of their dwindling market shares.

and yet for all your really good, well researched info, Apple is gaining
while others are losing.

As to the iPod, well the killers come and the killers go, but the iPod
seems to still lead the pack by a huge margin.
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