iPod
I got my new iPod today. Wow! I’ve never been this impressed by any gadget! Yea, yea… its just an mp3 player. But I was totally blown away by the packaging, the great attention to small details, the quality, and all the other things most company take care of only as an afterthought. Opening the iPod box has been described as a religious experience by many. I would have to agree on this. Everything is so very neatly packed. Everything looks so clean, so perfect. The headphones, the power adapter, the CD, the cable with plastic tabs at either - awesome design everywhere!
The iPod itself is great as well. I really like the white body and the backlight. The touch buttons and touch-wheel are a great idea. One thing I would have liked is the ability to tap the touch-wheel instead of hitting the center button to select whatever is currently selected. The interface is really simple to use. iTunes transferred about 6GB of music in around 15 minutes. All my playlists were imported. All my song ratings, the top-played songs database etc. I can set song ratings either on the iPod, or the computer, and everything gets syncd the next time the ipod is connected (I wonder how it handles conflicts though). i am yet to play with all the non-music related features it has to offer.
I didnt like that they gave only a firewire cable. A USB cable is another $20. For this price they should have included it. Unfortunately my laptop doesnt have a firewire port 
Totally worth the price. Why did I not buy this much earlier! Boy, I want an iBook/PowerBook more than ever now. Apple’s strategy is working just great!
January 15th, 2004 at 8:59 pm
Dude, have fun…
Cheers,
Dhar
January 16th, 2004 at 3:39 am
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
January 16th, 2004 at 6:04 am
I’ve always felt that in the long run, I might just find the 10 GB too little, and as of now the 40G is overpriced. So am waiting .. hopefully.
January 17th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
Ankh,
I never realized I had so much music! Thanks to the stuff being downloaded by Stationripper, I have close to 9GB of music on my ipod already. Now the problem is that I have never even heard about half of this, and much of it I would not like to keep. Now whenever I hear a song I dont like, I simply give it a single star rating. Then on the next update with itunes the ratings are on the computer. I then delete all the songs with a single star. I dont think I will need more than 10GB.
February 7th, 2004 at 6:18 am
Don’t throw it away when it gets old and out of favour for better one. I’ll take it over !!