Two days ago, an iPod Classic came into my life very unexpectedly. Joy, I thought – this new gizmo is really sexy.<\/p>\n
How wrong could I be?<\/p>\n
To start, I’ve discovered iPods appear to be obscenely proprietary in nature – even the USB cable HAS to be the apple USB cable – a normal USB cable won’t work.<\/p>\n
Then I discovered the device only works successfully if you use iTunes software – anything <\/em><\/strong>else and you’re in for a real crappy day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
New to iTunes, I soon realised that its sole reason for existing, is to coerce you into buying something from the Apple Store – to that end the software is littered with buttons and links that do just that – off to the store we go…<\/p>\n
Worse was to come.<\/p>\n
Every now and again my iPod disconnects from my computer for no apparent reason, the machine locks up and becomes unresponsive.<\/p>\n
A quick Google and I found that I’m not alone – hundreds of posts on different forums all saying very similar things. Why is it then, that my no name \u00a320 MP3 player works straight out of the box – no huge software installation, just copy and go. Even my Sony phone is simpler – and they wrote the book on ‘proprietary’. (No normal headphone jack etc) All this from a company who sells itself on simplicity and easy of use – I can honesty say that getting this iPod working has been hell – and I’m<\/span> was a huge fan of Apple Design.<\/p>\n
Then I looked up the cost of this delightful bit of kit – \u00a3150!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is fantastic news – I will eBay it immediately!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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