Apple, you seem to be doing a lot of bad things lately
Seriously Apple, what the heck!?
When you announced the new iPods I was quite happy to see the 160GB Classic, the new Nanos with video and the Touch. I was leaning toward a touch, but 16GB is just not enough space for me. For a device with a gorgeous screen for video I would actually want to put a lot of videos on it, and that's pretty hard to do with only 16GB of storage space. I would be happy with 30GB of space on the Touch, that's what my current 5.5G iPod is and that holds all of my music and videos with about 4GB to spare. The Touch needs a hard drive and at least 2GB of flash memory to store the applications and OS on and to load up videos and music to.
Because of the small amount of disk space on the iPod Touch, I was considering getting the 160GB iPod Classic. My plan was to re-rip my library as FLAC and store the FLAC audio on the Classic and keep 256kbps AAC files on my Mac and sync them to my iPod Classic.
I would love to do this, but unfortunately with the reports of the iPod Classics being extremely slow with their new GUIs, that partially turned me off from getting a Classic.
Another thing that somewhat turned me off from the iPod Classic, or any of the new iPods for that matter, is that users can no longer sync their iPods with anything but iTunes. This upset me because I may switch to Linux when KDE4 is released, and as most people know, there is no iTunes for Linux. The one program that does work, or used to, is Amarok. Now I may not be able to sync my iPod under Linux, and that would really, really suck.
The biggest turn off from the Classic and all of the new iPods for me personally is that I can't use the video out on the new iPods unless I purchase Apples $50 cable that has a special chip in it that allows the video out to work. Now, I don't normally use the video out too often, but when I do want to use it with my new iPod (that I am now probably not going to purchase) I don't want to replace a my video out cable and spend $50!
Apple, you really need to get your act together.
When you announced the new iPods I was quite happy to see the 160GB Classic, the new Nanos with video and the Touch. I was leaning toward a touch, but 16GB is just not enough space for me. For a device with a gorgeous screen for video I would actually want to put a lot of videos on it, and that's pretty hard to do with only 16GB of storage space. I would be happy with 30GB of space on the Touch, that's what my current 5.5G iPod is and that holds all of my music and videos with about 4GB to spare. The Touch needs a hard drive and at least 2GB of flash memory to store the applications and OS on and to load up videos and music to.
Because of the small amount of disk space on the iPod Touch, I was considering getting the 160GB iPod Classic. My plan was to re-rip my library as FLAC and store the FLAC audio on the Classic and keep 256kbps AAC files on my Mac and sync them to my iPod Classic.
I would love to do this, but unfortunately with the reports of the iPod Classics being extremely slow with their new GUIs, that partially turned me off from getting a Classic.
Another thing that somewhat turned me off from the iPod Classic, or any of the new iPods for that matter, is that users can no longer sync their iPods with anything but iTunes. This upset me because I may switch to Linux when KDE4 is released, and as most people know, there is no iTunes for Linux. The one program that does work, or used to, is Amarok. Now I may not be able to sync my iPod under Linux, and that would really, really suck.
The biggest turn off from the Classic and all of the new iPods for me personally is that I can't use the video out on the new iPods unless I purchase Apples $50 cable that has a special chip in it that allows the video out to work. Now, I don't normally use the video out too often, but when I do want to use it with my new iPod (that I am now probably not going to purchase) I don't want to replace a my video out cable and spend $50!
Apple, you really need to get your act together.