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Gadgets > iPod > CONs
 Posted by scribo
Dec 07, 2006 01:43 AM
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Who doesn't know about iPod. It's almost a rule that you must have an iPod. Wherever you go there they are, invading earth with their evil slimness. No, actually they are rightfully popular since they provide okay sound quality, beautiful design and huge space in order for you to add hundreds or thousands of music and movies, depending of how much you spend on it. It's the mp3 of mp3s, but slowly fading out as other brands catch up with it.
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| you could lose your hearing.. |
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| with teens listening to music at such volumes they are most likely to become deaf before age 60. |
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| $ cha-ching!!!$ |
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| cant afford one |
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| It scratches very easily. |
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| The main con I hear from iPod owners is probably that it scratches easily. Once I saw the 4 GB iPod a guy had and it was so tragic. You could hardly see what color it was by all the scratches. Well, ok, maybe he dropped it one too many times, but still, it doesn't need to collide with concrete in order to become like a zebra. |
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| The battery is really not powerful at all. |
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| I can almost go crazy with great stuff but with the problem of battery. Why have 20,000 songs when all you'll be able to listen in one load is more like 500? Or be able to watch movies when all you're able to watch is two hours? By the time you end up on the last track it'll already be time to get new teeth. Anyhow, a lot of mp3s got this problem, so it wouldn't be fair to only judge the iPod for it. It's a universal power supply crisis. |
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| You're stuck with iTunes |
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| Even though like mentioned before, iTunes is a nice feature, it's not quite worth being stuck with every time you want to add some music into your player. I like the old fashion way when all you had to do was drag and drop the songs into the directories you'd like. Now everything must be done with a program, which to me seems totally unnecessary and annoying. |
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| Overrated sound quality. |
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| I listened on an iPod several times and it always amazes me, in a negative sense. If you compare to other music players, like Sony's or Iriver's, it's not nearly close to the same sound-level. Granted, all music addicts have an iPod, but is it impossible that's because of all the buzz and the coolness in having one? We'll probably never find out. |
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| You can't copy from iPod to the computer. |
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| You can copy music from the computer to the iPod, although not the other way around. This is one of the things that scream against buying an iPod. They want to control what you do with your music, I mean what's next? Implanted chips so the FBI knows where you listen to music? It doesn't matter if the music you want to copy is already owned by you, iPod's copyright fear is becoming as bad as Sony's. |
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