Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Arelor
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri May 13 2022 19:17:36

  Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Arelor to Ennev on Thu May 12 2022 07:36 am

 >   Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
 >   By: Ennev to Arelor on Thu May 12 2022 07:48 am
 > 
 >  >  > Even cheap feature phones can double as an mp3 and radio players these
 >  >  > days. There is not much of a reason for having a vanity portable music
 >  >  > player anymore.
 > 
 >  > I think that vanity played a lot. A kid wouldn't want to be seen with
 >  > something else; it was a status thing.
 > 
 >  > But the other aspect was simplicity, I guess. Where we are all a bunch of
 >  > geeks familiar with tech, we can rip, recode, format, and copy stuff in o
 >  > sleep. But for most people, it's not the case. I guess that close-up
 >  > platform brought simplicity and a clear path to do things; it's the only
 >  > path but a path that will work.
 > 
 >  > How many of you set up players for relatives and friends? I think they we
 >  > loading it up at purchase for a lot of users, and then the player never g
 >  > any new files into them.
 > 
 > 
 > I think I have only met one person IRL who had an iPod. Everybody else was
 > using something else.
 > 
 > It is not like ripping CDs or downloading from The Pirate Bay is harder than
 > setting up iTunes on Windows. I don't think managing an iPod was simpler.
 > 
 > On the other hand, with modern music players, it is quite common for my moth
 > to ask me to fill hers up with Heavy Metal and then she never bothers to add
 > remove any music :-)
 > 
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 > 
My wife had an iPod or two, and it was a pain to put music on.  Checking the
sync setting, to make sure you wouldn't wipe a collection, then the
incompatilities between whatever version of iTunes she needed, with what would
urn on her Apple.  I bought a device which exposed the internal drive as a USB
Mass Storage device, so, so much easier.

Apple seems easier, but it isn't.  Apple users are like those people who have
some convoluted, difficult way of doing things, but resist being taught some
principles and knowledge to work better.  Learning is too hard.

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