The Apple iPhone package
Andrew Templeman
against.
The palm pre, the Droid, the N900 and the Nexus. They come to the table
with only the gadget part of the package. The 0.5% of the population
that make up most of the geeks that post to usenet or web forums only
look there. For the people I talk to every day who say "I'm no good with
computers" a total solution is necessary. These people wouldn't know
multi-tasking if you shoved it up them.
"I got an iPod for christmas and I have put iTunes on my laptop. I put
4 or 5 CDs into into it and it automatically copied them to the iPod!"
I got this this morning (I do IT support). These guys don't care that
you can't drag and drop into the file system. and there are more of them
than there are who want ubuntu on their home PC.
Apple sells a complete solution for music on a pocket device, and a
'phone, internet and media' device and it may not appeal to the 500 or
20,000 people around the world who think that they control too much and
want to know which disk sector the divx file they have downloaded from
bittorrent is located on the flash disk.
They are selling to the millions who just wants something that kinda
works without too much fuss
Maybe this is what vic and others are pointing out here
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Andy Templeman <http://www.templeman.org.uk/>
Adrian C
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> Apple sells a complete solution for music on a pocket device, and a
> 'phone, internet and media' device and it may not appeal to the 500 or
> 20,000 people around the world who think that they control too much and
> want to know which disk sector the divx file they have downloaded from
> bittorrent is located on the flash disk.
> They are selling to the millions who just wants something that kinda
> works without too much fuss
It works well for people like me who don't steal media.
It works pretty well at the higher level of technical understanding as
well, i.e. those that understand the concepts and need for automatic
data replication, backup and can query the meta based database engine
behind iTunes, instead of listening to the either genre shrieking
"random" or alphabetically sorted stuff :-(
Properly installed, iTunes is a reliable heavyweight solution capable of
managing a large library over numbers of disks, machines and users. And
then there is Genius. Incidently, as well as for my iPod Touch, I use
iTunes as a data backend for another music system I have here - Logitech
Squeezebox. For me that works really well :-)
Unfortunately, that much can't be said for the operating systems and
machines that most folk install iTunes on. Some people haven't even got
stable machines, either the hard drive and OS is regularly trashed with
other junk - and the horrors of the one-way copy defeats them when
trying to get the music back from the device, after failing to recover
their PC's from the last backup (what backup?).
So they fuss, they start down the path of righteous "disk mode" access -
and then weep when their device corrupts and fails, is dropped down the
gutter, or worse; stolen. And so they become "experts" and gleefully
inform sheep like others not to follow in their tracks.
Idiots :-|
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Adrian C