Stop whining about “missing” iPod features
All signs point to iPod updates soon, all across the board. Once again editors of popular tech websites/blogs have come out of the woodwork to complain about “features” that the iPod is “missing.” Shut up Enough already.
The big ones are BlueTooth and FM radio. If your iPod doesn’t hold all your music (aka tiny Shuffle/Nano) then you bought the wrong one. Get an iPod that holds your entire collection and get over it. The iPod will never have a FM radio. This is why it has streaming radio services (AOL radio, Pandora, Last.FM, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera). Commercial radio sucks.
As far as BlueTooth, it may be useful to have but it absolutely kills battery life. I currently own the Sony Bluetooth headphones for the iPod and it will suck your battery dry in less than a day of normal use. Perhaps if it were built-in Apple could find a way to optimize it but there won’t be much battery life to gain.
Using BlueTooth and WiFi, forgetaboutit. Battery killer. Battery killing features are bad for the user and for Apple. Users complain about the shortened battery life and Apple will tell users that using all the features at the same time shortens battery life. Users will then complain back to Apple how they shouldn’t have included it because of the shortened battery life.
The other thing that is just silly are music subscriptions. I like owning my music, end of story. I neither want or need to “fill” my player with useless drivel for a monthly fee. Plus, I don’t want my music to expire. I will pay a monthly fee for cable and Internet. I will not pay a monthly fee to listen to music. My guess is most iTunes users won’t either.
If you want to know what else some think is missing, head on over to Cnet. I’m telling you right here, right now that the iPod is perfect. Especially the iPod touch. The one thing I would like to see is a Touch Classic. An 80GB iPod Touch would be awesome. That’s about all I need to fulfill my iPod dreams.
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August 30th, 2008
You spend 5 paragraphs telling people not to complain, and then waste no time to complain about the capacity of the iPod touch.
September 1st, 2008
Micro SD. Swappable battery. Done.
September 3rd, 2008
Where is the article on Cnet?
December 15th, 2008
Why are you parroting Jobs’ idiotic dogma about users “want to own their music”.
Nobody is telling you that you can’t own your music. But I DON’T want to own my music. I want to LISTEN to. I want to download a complete program which is topically themed, fill up my ipod with it, listen to it, then dump and reload.
I want one program for christmas, one for dinner-time, one for my next house party, and one for making love to my wife.
I do NOT want the same playlist for those five events!
I’m 43 years years old and have personally watched four different media types become obsolete, and have already had to replace one complete music collection. I will never replace another music collection because I never plan to own one.
Why would you want to “own” a collection of a few thousand songs when you can have immediate and unlimited access to millions upon millions.
Well whether you want or it not it’s unbelievable pretentions – JOBS-like pretentious, in fact, to guess that most iPod owners are going to want only one choice instead of two.