austonia
Headphoneus Supremus
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No, it's not the limited codec support, or the battery life, or even the price. It's not the overly sensitive touch-buttons. It's not the unreplaceable hard drive. Or the popularity.
From a guy with more than a few DAP, the problem with iPod, is that it doesn't shut off. What I mean is, it's constantly draining the battery. Sleep mode. Just so the user doesn't have to suffer through a whole 5 second boot sequence. It never shuts down. Never. You can't tell it, hey, please, just shut down and save the power for when I next need it. No, it's always draining power so it can power-on in 2 seconds. You can't put in your drawer for a week because you'll come back to a dead battery. No option, that's just the way it is.
Every time I think about buying the Mini, I just remember this, and it's out of mind. Same deal. Yeah, it's a problem for the average dude to plug in it in all the time. I have enough things on my mind. At least with my cell phone I can slap on an additional battery when I forget to charge it. Anyway, there's a reason to leave a cell phone on all the time. Not so for a DAP. All my other players lie waiting for me, power ready. iPod.... dead.
The iPod is a mixture of brilliance and stupidity. More good things than bad, but there's better choices out there.
The joke is, that Apple could make this thing a badass piece of hardware with little effort, mostly firmware tweaking:
1) take the touch-pad from the Mini and stick on the iPod, kill the buttons
2) an option to turn the damn thing OFF
3) scrolling text for items that don't fit on the screen, while browsing (screen only shows ~17 characters)
4) looping lists, at least, as an option
5) either add OGG support or liscence AAC to other players, or both
6) better on-the-fly playlist support, like Dell DJ or Creative Zen
7) 5-pand user EQ
YEAH.
From a guy with more than a few DAP, the problem with iPod, is that it doesn't shut off. What I mean is, it's constantly draining the battery. Sleep mode. Just so the user doesn't have to suffer through a whole 5 second boot sequence. It never shuts down. Never. You can't tell it, hey, please, just shut down and save the power for when I next need it. No, it's always draining power so it can power-on in 2 seconds. You can't put in your drawer for a week because you'll come back to a dead battery. No option, that's just the way it is.
Every time I think about buying the Mini, I just remember this, and it's out of mind. Same deal. Yeah, it's a problem for the average dude to plug in it in all the time. I have enough things on my mind. At least with my cell phone I can slap on an additional battery when I forget to charge it. Anyway, there's a reason to leave a cell phone on all the time. Not so for a DAP. All my other players lie waiting for me, power ready. iPod.... dead.
The iPod is a mixture of brilliance and stupidity. More good things than bad, but there's better choices out there.
The joke is, that Apple could make this thing a badass piece of hardware with little effort, mostly firmware tweaking:
1) take the touch-pad from the Mini and stick on the iPod, kill the buttons
2) an option to turn the damn thing OFF
3) scrolling text for items that don't fit on the screen, while browsing (screen only shows ~17 characters)
4) looping lists, at least, as an option
5) either add OGG support or liscence AAC to other players, or both
6) better on-the-fly playlist support, like Dell DJ or Creative Zen
7) 5-pand user EQ
YEAH.