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April 08, 2006

I still don't get it

Now think for a moment - how many mobile phone manufacturers there are in the world and how many different models of phone there are. There's got to be thousands upon thousands right? Now all the phone manufacturers understand a basic concept: that their product is going to be carried around - in bags - in pockets - so they make them quite robust to stand up to the wear and tear of this. None of them have found this particularly difficult to achieve. Yet Apple - that supposedly innovative company (cough) when it comes to their most popular product -the iPod -just can’t. So they sell it with a pouch and other people have had to invent special coating and surfaces which ipod owners have to pay extra for (as if anything with an Apple logo on wasn’t vastly overpriced already) just to be able to do what a portable mpg player is designed to do - be portable.

I really don’t get what is wrong with people.

Posted by groc on April 8, 2006 07:23 PM

Comments

But, but... the tv said it was cool...

wibbled by: leff at April 8, 2006 11:12 PM

Apple seem to have developed a cult of Apple where their products are so beautifully designed that they're beyond reproach, but all I ever heard was that early model iPods had diabolical battery life and had to be sent off at great expense for battery upgrades, and that headphone flexes wore out. The amount of people I've seen on the Tube with their headphone cords held together by insulation tape...

I wouldn't touch Apple with a barge pole. The fact that you see all those absurdly overpriced proprietary products and accessories for iPods in the shops just tells me they're taking the piss. Just because it's white and called an i-something, doesn't mean it's the best thing since sliced bread.

wibbled by: Nathan at April 9, 2006 02:50 AM