Thursday, May 04, 2006

10 Reasons Not to Buy the iPod

  1. Battery replacement. Most of the other portable players let you change their batteries quite easily. Not the iPod.
  2. iTunes Music StoreThe biggest plus about the iPod is the iTunes music service. Sadly, for whatever reason, Apple doesn't think India is important enough to have it.
  3. Video playback is pretty basic While you can definitely play some good quality video on the iPod, if you want to output it to bigger display (say when you're traveling and your hotel has a nice big-screen TV), then you gotta buy some expensive accessories!
  4. Shifting songs via iTunes is a PAINWhy should you be limited to shifting songs only through iTunes? Every time you get a new song from somewhere, you first need to add it to your iTunes library. Only then can you move it to your iPod.
  5. The photo feature is sillyWhile most portable players out there let you copy images through direct drag and drop, iPod does it differently. It converts and optimizes each photo into a proprietary format. This is pretty stupid because if you want to actually SHARE your photographs (like leave a copy behind), you'll need to carry the original JPEGs separately. Also, you can't directly view these JPEGs on the iPod. Pretty dumb if you ask me!
  6. Doesn't play FMFM is no more the boring monotonous A.I.R variety. With airwaves opening up and cities getting up to 6 radio stations, having FM is a good thing and every competing portable media player out there today incorporates FM
  7. Slow interfaceDespite the Broadcom chip inside and Apple's claims about how great its hardware is, watching videos and forwarding/skipping through them leaves the hardware quite breathless and can be irritating at times.
  8. Scratch magnetThe shiny black surface of the iPod (Nano and 5th Gen) gets scratched even if you keep it inside its inadequate cover. The scratching can get so bad that the screen display becomes 'un-viewable', which beats the whole point of having the device!
  9. It syncs to just one PCEach iPod can be synced to just one PC at a time. This means that if you have synced it to your desktop, it won't work with your notebook, unless you re-sync it, which will then result in a 'remove-all previous songs' accident. What a hassle!
  10. Everyone has oneYeah, I accept it looks pretty cool and is real slick, but everyone has one. Do you really want to be a part of the herd?

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