Ipod Nano - replaces the ipod mini

[IsiliRunite]

I'm beginning to think you're all fashion designers, opposed to audiophiles.

It GOES in your POCKET. It could look like a piece of coal, if it plays music well, and allows for you to change the battery, that's what matters. And I know for a fact that all iPod models have decent sound quality and horrible output. I'm sorry, but I refuse to use ear-buds.

[adam]

I'm beginning to think you're a total ass.

[IsiliRunite]

It's your money, but I'm doing what another member is doing: Going for the cheaper gb/monetary unit version of another brand, that I won't see every other person with. Its what's right for me, and my needs. I need to hear my music for the lowest price and highest quality, so I'm not going to pay more for good looks and miniscule size.

Were you beginning to assume things, too?

[goldfish]

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

It GOES in your POCKET. It could look like a piece of coal, if it plays music well, and allows for you to change the battery,

Surely it's also got to be easy to use, easy to link to your computer, easy to connect to the iTMS and have useful useable features? Compared to the non-ipod personals I've used, the iPod is a country mile ahead in all of those categories, and just as good in the two you mention.

Sound quality is good; it's hard to tell how good, because as any audiophile knows, MP3s, AACs, OGGs etc. all sound universally a bit shit. Whining about audiophile sound quality on a device designed to play compressed music on the move seems a bit silly to me.

I think it's a nice enough device; it's a deluxe Shuffle, for people who don't have gazillions of songs on their computer (I've seen nothing to suggest it's a replacement for the Mini, not least because I'm assuming it's flash based, not hard-drive).

Still a pretty dull Keynote. New iTunes to match Mail. Woo-fucking-hoo. iTunes phone; great that that's half-arsed, 'cos device convergence is for the idiot gadget freaks, not the general public.

Nanu Nanu

Simon

[IsiliRunite]

You bring up a good point of OGG and Mp3s, but I've been pretty faithful about 320, like I'm sure a lot of you have, and unless I'm in non-mobile circumstances, I wouldn't make it out, the difference.

[Forgotten Sanity]

Originally Posted by goldfish

Surely it's also got to be easy to use, easy to link to your computer, easy to connect to the iTMS and have useful useable features? Compared to the non-ipod personals I've used, the iPod is a country mile ahead in all of those categories, and just as good in the two you mention.

See, I agree that the ipod is easier to use than my own personal unit... but the 5 gig ipod mini was selling for $250 and my 30 gb unit was selling for $230. I went on epinions.com to see what people said about my unit (hahaha, my unit... they're talking about my unit... but I digress) and they said that the worst thing about it was the unintuitive gui. And yet, playing with the Creative Zen at the local electronics shop, learning how to use it befiore I even bought it (and its easy to use at that rate)... it just made me think, "Do people really need to be catered to THAT much??"

I mean, go get an ipod if you want but there are SO many alternatives out there, and so many that can compete with the ipod on every level... sound quality, battery life, capacity, *price*... it astonishes me to see that nothing is even really competing in sales or even press with what I feel is an over-priced, only average unit.

[goldfish]

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

that I won't see every other person with.

"Look at me, I'm different..."

And you complain about others being fashion victims.

Simon

[goldfish]

Originally Posted by Forgotten Sanity

it astonishes me to see that nothing is even really competing in sales or even press with what I feel is an over-priced, only average unit.

Nothing else out there has the same package of quality (the iPod just feels better than everything else), design, software integration, software design, online store, ease of use (the click wheel is so intuitive), colour screen, sound quality etc.

A lot of them have bits and bobs of the above, but nothing else has all of them. I should add that I have a Mac, so the whole thing's a doddle anyway.

Simon

[IsiliRunite]

Originally Posted by goldfish

And you complain about others being fashion victims.

It's not that I don't want to see others with what I use, I don't HAVE to, to be content with what I have.

[sola sistim]

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

It's your money, but I'm doing what another member is doing: Going for the cheaper gb/monetary unit version of another brand, that I won't see every other person with. Its what's right for me, and my needs. I need to hear my music for the lowest price and highest quality, so I'm not going to pay more for good looks and miniscule size.

Were you beginning to assume things, too?

um, why the fuck do you care what other people want to waste their money on?
if YOU dont like it, dont buy one, just dont tell anyone else not to buy one because you dont like it.