Peeve Farm

1. Mr. Lion - 14:22 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email | web )

The deciding factor for me is the interface. When I'm walking down the street, I keep my 1st gen nano in my pocket. I don't need or want glitzy interfaces, just the familiar thumb wheel and hold switch that I can manipulate blind-folded during an earthquake in a car crash. So when I'm walking down the street, I need, and want, a nano.

Ah, but then, when I want to watch a video, I want the widescreen uber-joy that is the touch/iPhone, because in that environment I want squeezy touchy proddy glassy-- and as the man said: GLAVIN-things. I want to play with it, because I'm giving it considerably more attention than the nano in pocket mode.

So, to recap, Apple has successfully made me interested in watching videos on an iPod, which I had previously dismissed as entirely pointless, while making the existing "it's an iPod, stupid" versions as pocket-friendly as ever. Even more so, actually, as I'm willing to bet the new nano lays in one's pocket better, given the mostly-square layout, without twisting and turning as the old tall/slender ones were prone to doing.

Because you know they thought about pocket geometry.

Damn them. Remember when one iPod was enough? Remember when they only made one?

2. evariste - 14:46 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email | web )

The Zune team should just douse themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire.

3. evariste - 15:00 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email | web )

Bottom story of the day.

4. Mad William Flint - 15:25 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email | web )

That stumpy little thing is going to be the first victim. It's got to go.

As for me, I don't listen to the thing in transit and I spelunk deeply into my library with distressing frequency, so capacity is the ultimate feature for me.

160 Classic all the way.

5. Chris Cogdon - 16:41 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email )

evariste: But they can only do that three times, within three days, before they have to find someone to squirt the gasoline at them again.

6. JJ - 19:11 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email )

My daughter saved and saved for months and just bought a regular nano a couple of weeks ago. It froze up and quit working. The one they switched it out for has acted up some, but resetting it seems to do the trick.

Guess what's getting returned to the store?

She woke me up early this morning about to jump out of her skin she wanted the new nano so badly - I just hope it works better than the one she has now! Or is less buggy, anyway.

I'll hand it to all the Apple fans though, even though it's not the most dependable, it really is cool to look at and use. The little games that came with it were so cute, now that they play videos it'll be perfect for her.

7. Damien - 21:22 Thu 9/6/2007 ( email | web )

This certainly makes having a family a little better - I can justify two (or three?) different iPods for the wife and daughter. Because one is DEFINITELY not enough.

The nano looks great. In the past, all the hard drive based iPods I have had eventually got difficult or flat out stopped working, even when plugged in. And that's 3, going back to the original, the iPod Photo (did Steve forget that one?), and the 3rd Gen. The flash ones seem to hold up much better - my Nano got soaked for 2 days and worked ok after a thorough drying.

But the touch is so nice! And it truly looks like the device that can grow via software updates for a couple years. But I just *know* they'll be offering a 200 gb iPod touch for Christmas 2008. It will just be iPod again, because this is the last Classic, my friends. "Classic" is a transitional name, as in "Say goodbye to Classic." This is the last hurrah of the click wheel (it will continue on the Nano, of course).

Pockety goodness. Touchy coolness. Time to buy more stock! And leave aside $600 or so for iPod indulgence.

Damien

8. Brian Tiemann - 02:10 Fri 9/7/2007 ( email | web )

This is just what I'm talking about: everyone here has a different idea of which iPod is the ideal one for his purposes.

The shuffle and the iPhone are "specialty" things, the one for a nigh-disposable party-favor sort of market segment, and the other for the high-end costume-jewelry phone world. But in between those endpoints, every iPod they're selling makes a strong case to the broad core of potential buyers.

9. bill - 05:41 Fri 9/7/2007 ( email | web )

I don't want to make daily choices. I don't want to spend all my time making playlists. I just want to carry around a giant jukebox of all my music. And with hard drives becoming cheaper than dirt, very soon we can do away with choosing mp3 or AAC (etc.) and rip and save in the full glory of uncompressed formats. I've starting digitizing all my old vinyl and I'm saving in AIFF. This has maxed out my 3G and I need a bigger iPod. I'd hoped once Apple yanked the phone guts out, they'd build a WiFi iPod with, say, a 150GB drive. Hell, I'd be standing in line right now if it was just 80GB.

Instead it's 16GB, with no bluetooth, no email, no google maps. I suppose I could get one of the new badass classics, but I'll probably keep babying along my 40GB until Apple puts a decent hard drive in the touch.

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