Poll: iPod Hate or Love?

[D_987]

I hate them, my sister got a mp3 player that has more features then the basic ipod. For example it was cheaper, has a FM radio, plays video, and hold more song all for $80 USD

Sounds like a Creative =)

I have owned 3 different Creative models over the course of 5 years - each have been superior(in my opinion) to the ipod that was released at the same time. I don't hate the ipod, but I dislike what it says about society - that looks are the most important factor involving anything.

 

[Joeshie]

iTunes is a bloated piece of shit. Even if you close down the program to free up resources, it still has about 2-3 extra programs running in the background.

The iPods are alright. Decent mp3 players, but you can find MUCH better ones out there at a similar price.

iPods are perfect for the kids out there who want to be hip and trendy or the average sheep who buys whatever the TV tells them to.

 

[Doomdiver]

Ugh. The only good iPod to come out is the touch/iPhone, even then in my opinion there are better, cheaper alternatives. I care about sound quality, and I should since I am paying so much for something that's sole purpose is to make sounds. I went with much cheaper alternatives when I first started with MP3 players, looking back at them the sound quality was atrocious. Then I got a creative, great sound quality, kept crashing so I had to take it back.

Now though, I have had the same MP3 player for about a year and a half and I absolutely love it. It is one of the first generation Sony video Walkmans, great design, and unrivalled sound in any other MP3 player I have ever used. Oh and did I mention I can just drag and drop my music onto my MP3 player? Yeah I hate iTunes and will not seriously consider buying an iPod until this is an option. Until then though I am more than happy to stay with my walkman (and even after then I'm unlikely to convert)!

 

[Arrers]

I like my iPod. It looks pretty, and I can listen to pretty music on it. iTunes, however, isn't actually somthing is use often(mostly due to me liking to have a hard copy of my music) but I've never had any problems other than the time it took me to figure out what "syncronise" meant.

 

[ae86gamer]

iTunes rocks. iPod capacity is great. The wheel... annoying.

^This. Also mine tends to freeze sometimes. Other than that I love it.

 

[Sdaw]

I like my ipod touch, but hate itunes. i use medaimonkey instead of itunes. bit more complicated, but worth it. used to use a a cheaper creative mp3 player, really liked it until it broke a few years and much abuse later, main reason i got one was to one-up my friend, and because they just look so cool, but it was worth the 400 dollars. only ended up paying a fraction of that because of christmas. just really hate itunes.

 

[manaman]

The iPods are only expensive because they can be. I picked up a couple of fake iPods in the Philippines. Paid like $15 or something close to that for them, they where identical to the iPods, down to the label on the back and the firmware.

I still do not see why nobody will release an MP3 player with one or two Micro SDHC slots on it. Those would support a card up to 32GB in size. I mean I understand that if they did you do not have to use their software to move the files on and off the player. Easy to pirate and share files.

 

[Naeo]

Hate Apple, but I am forced to admit that my 6th Gen iPod Classic works like a charm. I personally think that save for the storage difference (which is a massive drawback) Sandisk's Sansa (I had an e280R before I got my iPod) is better. However, nothing wrong with iPods in my eyes and iTunes works like a charm for me, though I do miss WMP's "stop" button. Ah well, I never much used it anyways.

So while I pretty much hate Apple, I like iPods. Call me a hypocrite or whatever as you will.

 

[Ignignokt]

My old iPod Gen 3 or 4 had some issues with my computers that seemed to just break them. I had to send it in several times. I could use it with other computers fine for some reason, so I had to load any new music from anywhere but mine. And somehow this continued even after getting a new computer... So my old iPod was more of a pain that sat unused for long periods of time. But my new iPod nano I really like so far. It doesn't have any of those problems, and it's small, and uses flash memory. iTunes does suck though.

 

[razer17]

i love my ipod touch. on the on the other hand i despise itunes. its inconvenient and slow. i wish i never had to use it.ever. but sadly i must.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

iPod=OK

iTunes=devil

 

[Earthbound Engineer]

I'm kind of neutral, because it's really not that hard to get around the annoying functions of iTunes, if you know what you're doing.

 

[Sacman]

Whatever it plays my music and is user friendly when using Itunes so I guess I like it...

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I held off on buying one, just because of hearing people say stuff like this.

 

[twistedshadows]

I've never been a fan of iPods (or Apple, for that matter), but I do have one and begrudgingly admit to liking it.
I wish I could use something other than iTunes, but I guess I've gotten used to it.

 

[Danny3005]

I hate them for the sole reason some people really think that an ipod is not a brand of mp3 player and is its own thing

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

I really don't care.
MP3 players are just another fad like portable CD players, walkmans, boomboxes etc.
They will die out soon enough.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

I don't see why people are hating on iTunes; it works pretty well. I'm happy with it.

 

[Deadman Walkin]

I can stand it, but I would like things to be a little easier. Example, I have put a south park season onto my computer, renamed everything and labeled the artist. I pop it into iTunes and have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN, because it doesn't want to take the name that I have already wrote.

 

[timmytom1]

I despise Apple products to the bottom of my black soul. The only decent product they make, in my opinion, is the iPod touch.

Yes, I have a Zune. Don't mock me.

I`d like to get a zune if MS ever get round to actually releaseing it in europe that is