Stop whining about “missing” iPod features
By Jonathan Schlaffer
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?