From the article: The Pros and Cons of Buying an iPod
There are many great reasons to buy an iPod. From the usefulness to the coolness factor, millions and millions of people have thousands of answers. Share yours here: why do you buy an iPod? Share Your Reason
My 1st electronic-Xmas 2008
- I have enjoyed my ipod touch for 8 months now. I can charge it from any computer itunes or no itunes and I can download anything on it. I have great music and I can shield all other noises out. Especially when I hear discussions on long car rides regarding EMO comments. Also I podcast the Baltimore Ravens on here.
- —Guest Voldermort
Ipod : reason for purchase
- I requested an Ipod for Christmas 2 years ago. I received a nano, and basically use it for listening to podcasts, ripping music in iTunes and syncing with the ipod, and playing the assortment of games that can be downloaded from the iTunes store.
- —Guest Rino Lattanzio
audio books on the plane
- I subscribe to audible for biz books i would NEVER read if i could not simply listen to them. As to music you can burn your old cds to mp3 and load to iphone; burn your movies to mp4 and load to iphone - download audio books for free from various sites as well as free movies - you don't have to use itunes for anything other than software updates and migrating files to your iphone.
- —nja_hou
Thought it was awsome
- Ok for starters it's a good device, but honestly it's an audio player for dummies, other than the click wheel, it sucks plain and simple. Steve Jobs does anything in his power to lure you into buying this idiotic product by stressing on one or two key things, but he never mentions the downsides, or cons of his stuff, instead he makes up by bashing windows-based computers and software, not for nothing, I own an apple machine, but from my experience, ipods tend to crash a lot, they're so godddamn thin that they feel like they'll break from a few drops, you cannot export files from it onto any other machine or device other than it's home computer, which is totally retarded, you cannot import audio/video files you import from other machines onto your machine, so it's pretty restricted/limited to versatility. it only reads mp3 and aac audio files and mp4 video, so it's limited there as well. If you want a more versatile player look into sony, creative, sandisk, philips...ipod is for newbies
- —Guest syndrome666
website
- thank for that tip! I've also found that Winamp is capable of ipod file managing as well and it works great
- —Guest maarthy
One small point
- Hey Maarthy - Thanks for your thoughts. Just one quick point: you can actually use programs besides iTunes to manage the iPod. Check out http://ipod.about.com/od/introductiontoitunes/tp/itunes_alterns.htm for more.
- —SamCostello
I bought an ipod :-(
- Ipod might be a great device, but it isn't. Firstly, I have to use ONLY itunes to get a music and video in the device, it doesn't support WMA and OGG, sound coming from the output is mere crappy, I can't even set my own equalizer (and that truly sucks, I am left to use preserts). Next time when I find myself an mp4 player, it definitely won't be Ipod again. And the video is another tragedy, it doesn't support anthing else except for that stupid mp4, why would I want to convett everything? Why did I buy an Ipod, because I was simply stupid. I am so glad I haven't wasted my money for Iphone, that's even worse tragedy (see iphonefeartures.org and their long list of features that people are missing)
- —Guest maarthy
