Comments on: Does not endear Apple to me http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/01/15/does-not-endear-apple-to-me/ candour is good Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:56:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Andrea http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/01/15/does-not-endear-apple-to-me/#comment-49700 Andrea Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:56:36 +0000 http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=1597#comment-49700 $500 is bloody high! I was practically shaking at spending S$300 on a phone. I think the problem is that people are all into this convergence... I like my devices to do the one thing they're meant to do, well. I don't really love the iPod / Creative interface, I only need something simple that tells me what's playing now, volume control, stop, play, pause, repeat, shuffle. And a decent memory (1GB is enough). $500 is bloody high! I was practically shaking at spending S$300 on a phone.

I think the problem is that people are all into this convergence… I like my devices to do the one thing they’re meant to do, well. I don’t really love the iPod / Creative interface, I only need something simple that tells me what’s playing now, volume control, stop, play, pause, repeat, shuffle. And a decent memory (1GB is enough).

]]> By: Terry http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/01/15/does-not-endear-apple-to-me/#comment-49683 Terry Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:29:30 +0000 http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=1597#comment-49683 The preliminary price for the iPhone is not that high. The RAZR was $500 when it first came out if you did not sign your life away on a contract to get it. Please don't get me going on All the stupid things Apple is doing. I have not bought any music from the Apple music store (an not just because of the DRM) but I do use iTunes to organize my music on the computer. Now if I could just find a car stereo that plays MP3's off a DVD+RW or a cheap 20GB thumb drive, I might listen to more of it... Apple has a majority of the MP3 player just because they have the one that sucks the least, and were able to leverage that into being one of the current "hot" toys. The preliminary price for the iPhone is not that high. The RAZR was $500 when it first came out if you did not sign your life away on a contract to get it.

Please don’t get me going on All the stupid things Apple is doing. I have not bought any music from the Apple music store (an not just because of the DRM) but I do use iTunes to organize my music on the computer. Now if I could just find a car stereo that plays MP3’s off a DVD+RW or a cheap 20GB thumb drive, I might listen to more of it… Apple has a majority of the MP3 player just because they have the one that sucks the least, and were able to leverage that into being one of the current “hot” toys.

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