Happy Birthday, iPod: Top Ten Reasons Why I hate You [via Gizmodo]
Confession: Yes, I have an iPod, but that does not deprive my right from criticising it. The only reason I am using one is because I still cannot find anything to replace it. Do not call me a hypocrite, because deep down you know you are one too.
1. Spreading American-Consumerism all over the world - Do I have to explain more? Think on your own: you crave new and good things every second, you crave for a bigger harddisk capacity, you cannot satisfy with things you have, you let materialism take over yourself… and yes, iPod is playing a great role in spreading American-consumerism-materialism. Recall your memories, is there a time when an iPod is out, you did NOT wish you can have the new one?
2. Damn the change of earphone jack from 4th to 5th generation - It made all my peripherals useless after I switched!!! I originally have a iTalk for recording and a FM transmitter for my 4th gen iPod. It went dead because of the mysterious upgrade of firmware released by Apple in January 2006, then I switched to a 5th gen iPod unwillingly. But then, the earphone jack position is changed, the data socket is gone, all the peripherals prior to 5th gen is USELESS.
3. I need you to live longer and let me finish the damn movie! Don’t you dare to cut me off from the climax of the movie just because your battery is completely drained. By the way, not only the battery has to live longer, the iPod itself has to live longer as well. Damn the fragile harddisk!!!
4. Why don’t you let me sync the other way round? Seriously, there are third-party application doing that, so your stand of protecting music’s copyright does not work anymore. You may just as well serve us that convenience.
5. Why I can’t use my mac formatted iPod on a Windows? True, I wish everyone in the world uses Apple, but the reality is not like that. The disk mode option on my Mac formatted iPod is like utterly useless.
For more reasons for hating an iPod, please refer to Charlie White’s article.
Okay, now I am done, you can call me a hypocrite now.
