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Well, I remember I wanted to get an iPod because I thought they were the best Mp3 player on the market. Well, I eventually decided on the Sansa e260, which is not only NOT an iPod, it's better.



That's my Mp3 player. The 4gb Sansa e260. It plays Mp3, Wma, videos, and a thousand file formats of images, has FM radio. I can use it for whatever I want, and only for 110 dollars (or 120, I forgot which, but it's still cheaper than an iPod).

Anyway, back to the reasons why the iPod isn't necessary.

1. There's no point spending the same amount of money on a 30gb iPod Video on an 8gb iPod Nano (but that's probably Circuit City's fault.)
2. No FM radio.
3. I don't have to buy another (expensive) iPod model just to play videos.
4. iPods have a confusing interface. My Sansa is easy to use.
5. iPod's are needlessly expensive.
6. Sound quality sucks (Canis made me remember). I remember listening to an iPod, the drums were too ******** loud, and when I turned down the volume I could barely hear s**t. Lol, that guy spend ten seconds with my Sansa and said "Yo, I want this! This is so much better than an iPod!!"

Another thing you should put up there Wii4Me...the quality of iTunes music SUCKS. Ripping music off your CD's sounds a lot better. iTunes dumbs down audio to appeal to 56k(dial-up) users I assume.

While CD's are ridiculously overpriced, the quality is better, and iTunes makes things a lot more complicated then they should be...well it's easy and simple for the average person since all they know is "connect iPod, click transfer music to iPod on iTunes, and done".

I'd much rather connect my audio player to my computer and copy my audio files onto the memory stick/storage device so I see what is in it and I can change file names myself. Plus, the whole head phone jack to USB thing with the iPod shuffle is just weird to me. I figure an actual mini-USB connector would transfer faster than that.

Yes, I meant the quality of music on the iTunes store. I don't have to be that specific. That's the main thing iTunes is used for, buying music off the online store. I definitely don't use it as my default music player.

And you are making that sound really simple. You act like the DRM's don't exist at all. You can't just simply copy the files from your computer to another or a portable audio device and it work. You have to authorize the computer you are copying it to, and you have to go through iTunes to copy your music onto your iPod to get it to work right. My parents have the ipod shuffle, so when they connect it to the computer, they can't just go to my computer and go inside it. They have to go to iTunes and let it recognize it and copy the music itself.

So manually copying music is out of the question because pretty much all the songs on iTunes have DRM. Though you could always get an DRM decrypter, but then again, like I said, I'd rather buy a CD or get the music from some other online store because the quality of the songs off the iTunes store is bad.

I don't use it for mainly that, and I sure the masses out there don't either; either way, if you can afford an iPod, I am highly certain that you are willing to throw away money at a music store, for another point.

Was I talking about DRM specifically? Nope.

Once again, not with non-DRM music; I believe you have misunderstood me greatly here.

So, you think that all iTunes has is DRM? Where is the source for that? Have you read the shift that Apple has made in terms of DRM? They are shifting away from it, as far as they can. EMI now offers DRM-free music, for example.

Actually, the non-DRM songs you buy are higher quality, and they have been increasing the quality of the songs, now that that iTunes can pause a download if interrupted, and continue later, allowing users to download songs without fear of their internet (and apple) shutting them out.

As to the 'overboard user friendly' bit, I believe that most people do find it user friendly, and to those who don't like it, there is always iPod Linux wink

Also, I want to clarify that I did not mean to say that iPod was superior, I'm just one of those a**l engineer types that want to make sure that technologically incorrect or biased information is handed out... unfortunately, that also carries over to video games *sigh*

I don't have parents... so, I wouldn't know...