Comments | dennis_obell: Greatly insane

dennis_obell

Greatly insane

Oct 02, 2006 16:26

Last week was so exhausting - for pleasant reasons, mostly - that I'm now forced to do one of those catchall, week-in-review LJ posts. But I'll spare the disinterested from my spew with the magic of lj-cut tags.

( My iPod died on Friday and was replaced by Sunday with a top-of-the-line iPod video. )

Comments 8

littlewashu October 2 2006, 20:46:08 UTC

How come you bought something that died after a year and a half, and then you bought another one? Do you think that's a reasonable lifetime for an mp3 player, or do you like iPods so much you just don't care?

Uhhh...'cuz I'm a sucker? dennis_obell October 2 2006, 20:52:13 UTC

I'm annoyed by how fast this iPod died, but otherwise I've had a pretty good track record with them. The first two Pods I owned are still alive and working for friends of mine, including the 1G, click-wheel Pod I bought in November 2001. (Admittedly, the friend that now owns that one also owns a Nano and uses that more often; but still, it's alive and working.)

Also, what would be the alternative? Wait for a Zune? (I think we've all learned not to buy v1.0 of anything Microsoft makes.) Try my luck with some other gizmo? I'm not gonna go a year without an MP3 player, and so if buying a new one is a given, the iPod remains far and away the best one on the market.

I know, I've just rewarded Apple's out-of-warranty crappiness with more of my dough. But I'm enough of a Jobs whore that this doesn't really keep me up at night, I guess.

Re: Uhhh...'cuz I'm a sucker? datapanik October 2 2006, 21:06:44 UTC

I was lucky enough (?!) that my 60GB iPod malfunctioned before my year-long warranty was up (the whole iPod didn't stop working - just the click wheel). Apple replaced it for free. Of course, this happened just after Apple announced the new 80GB iPod, retailing at the price I paid for mine at the SoHo Apple store only six months ago.

herbaliser October 2 2006, 21:29:35 UTC

it's 2006 not 2001, there are plenty of other MP3 players on the market. I think the price of iPods right now is far and away the best reason to get one.

thrownoverbored October 3 2006, 02:15:43 UTC

man, i wonder what generation ipod i have-- it's the first clickwheel that came out-- no color, no photo, no video.

man, i'm outdated. see earlier post on the hazards i'm facing now w/ itunes/ipod/ibook. argh!

What wheel? dennis_obell October 3 2006, 02:59:51 UTC

man, i wonder what generation ipod i have-- it's the first clickwheel that came out

By "clickwheel," you mean the wheel with the buttons built-in to the wheel, right? Like the wheels on the current model, only yours is from, like, two years ago? (Not the original-original wheel from 2001 that actually phyically turned and made little physical clicking sounds, like a bicycle wheel with playing cards in the spokes.)

If you have a clickwheel, but you don't have a color screen, then you have (see if you follow me here) the first version of the fourth-generation iPod. According to this Wikipedia entry, Apple added the clickwheel (first developed for the mini) to the full-size Pods in the summer of '04; then, three months later, they made all the full-size iPods color/"Photo" models. Basically, it sounds like you bought your Pod in the late summer of '04. (Think back: was John Kerry running for president? Was there a lot of Usher on the radio? Were you listening to a lot of Franz Ferdinand?)

man, i'm outdated. see earlier post on the ( ... )

meverettlane October 3 2006, 20:44:44 UTC

So your iPod committed suicide rather than play Justin Timberlake?

sparkle_shortz November 4 2006, 18:01:15 UTC

Hurrah Yacht Rock.