Re: What, exactly, is Apple's iPod business model?

Tim Streater wrote:
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Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Tim Streater <timstreater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Reginald Dwight <regdwight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Tim Streater <tim.streater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Reginald Dwight <regdwight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Tim Streater <tim.streater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All this is probably why I don't have an iPod and can't imagine that I would ever want one.
And yet...you'll never know.
I'll never know what?
That you'd enjoy the experience which is essentially a paradigm shift in music listening.
I had a walkman once which was moderately useful while doing some dull jobs. Except the plug jobbies hurt my ears, so I haven't bothered since then.
Oddly enough, things have progressed since the old walkman days.

Hard to imagine, I know, but still...

More useful is a gardening hat I have with a built-in FM/longwave receiver. I recently replaced the uncomfortable earplugs with something more comfortable which attaches to my ears.

Quite good for sitting outside watching my wife doing the gardening. But then, I could just take the radio outside.

And listening to music on an iPod requires putting it there in the first place. Given that on my to do list are:

1) editing our wedding video (3 years ago)
2) editing our holiday video from a year a ago
3) editing the video from a tour movie of the house we moved out of 9 months ago
4) many of my 1500 slides have mould growth (prolly due to poor storage). I have to move all of them out of the 140-slide Kodak carousels into 80-slide ones. This is so that, when I sort through and remove the mouldy ones, I can get them back in after cleaning. I have to take them to an E6 lab for dismounting, bleach/wash, and remounting. The new mounts are thicker than the old Kodak cardboard ones.

So you see the likelihood that I am going to transfer CD contents onto an iPod is vanishingly small. More likely is to shove th CDs in the car and listen on the way to work.

Well, then, you have your priorities. Took me a few months to transfer my library to iTunes, but I'm a stickler for getting metadata right, and doing this for just under a thousand CDs was boring. I just did an armful a few times a week. Many people just setup iTunes to rip automatically, and feed it CDs until they are done. A friend did his library in about a day.

I ended up re-ripping a few with more care because sometimes encoding to compressed format makes some recordings sound like ***.

Obviously, you have to want to do this. Which you won't if you don't see the value. For 90% of my listening I use my "audiophile" system. When coding or doing photography I let iTunes run a playlist for me. When we have a little party, I stream iTunes to the stereo.

The ability to decide how and when I access my media, with the knowledge that one trades-off quality with convenience sometimes, is very valuable to me.

I still have all my old negatives, for example, but I am scanning some into Lightroom so I can share lower-quality copies on the web and even tweak them a little to get them ready for "good enough" print.
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