Well, I finally did it.
Despite working in the technology field for most of my adult life, I’ve never really been what you could call an “early adopter.” I generally get around to buying new tech months—or more likely years—after it appears on the market. In my younger days it was generally from lack of funds; now things don’t get updated until they break down (or become too frustrating and outmoded to use).
I really haven’t had the need for a portable music player since I moved back to Phoenix. Owning one was a necessity while commuting via public transit in San Francisco, but here I drive to work. I have a CD player in my car, and I keep all of my tunes at the office on an external USB hard drive that I play via iTunes through my laptop. Lately however, the audio on my work laptop (a Dell D630) has been getting wonky. It sputters and pops even when there’s nothing playing. At first I thought it was the speakers, so I bought new ones. That didn’t solve the problem, so it’s looking more and more like bad audio on the out-of-warranty system board. There’s no way that’s getting replaced, so I had to make a decision. Do I drag out my old minidisk player and transfer all my current tunes onto disks (a daunting task), or do I just bite the bullet and get an iPod?
I actually had a harder time trying to decide which iPod to get. The Nano came in sweet candy-apple colors and shot video, but it maxed out at 16GB storage. I had 32GB of music. I could cull my collection, but the Nano itself—while undeniably sexy—just had “lose me” written all over it’s adorable face. So I went with the Classic. It won’t shoot video, but with a 160GB capacity and a larger size that’s lot likely to be misplaced, it was the logical choice for me.
First it was the MacBook Pro. Now an iPod. Is an iPhone next? Not likely. I absolutely loathe AT&T.
Good on ya mate!
Well well, i converted you fully. Welcome, and I agree with you, AT&T sucks balls!
No worries… the exclusive contract with AT&T is rumored to be ending in June.
In time you’ll see.
Apple products have two big advantages over their competitors 1. for the ipods the number of accessories is unparalleled and 2. for all Apple products you have the Apple store and the Genius bar where you’ll get free help if you encounter problems.
My mom just spent $400 to clean up her fairly new Dell to get it speedy again. If I had the same problem, Apple would have done it free. There goes the price advantage of a pc.
i told you we would not let you go!
embrace the dark side.
you’re welcome here
Congratulations, we’ll make you a full Apple convert by the end of the year!
I bought two Touches, one 16GB (Mine) and a 32GB for the SO. He’s already maxing the 32GB out.
Prior to that I had an 8GB Nano.
Some frustrations with the Touch:
No Flash support. I don’t care what Steve Jobs says, HTML 5 is at a minimum 3 years from widespread adoption. And at the moment only ONE browser supports HTML 5, that’s Google Chrome. Even Apple’s owen Safari doesn’t support it.
The restrictions on Bluetooth. I have a pair of Motorola S9 earphones. They work fine but the play controls are locked out so too the microphone. It’s the same chip as in the iPhone but yet they software lockout features.
Way to fucking go Apple!
I bought a Zune not that long ago (1/2 price). I hate iTunes – I gave up trying to get it to work on my computer.