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I reckon there must be some anti-iPoders (like me ^^) around here! so tell us why you finally pull yourself out from the stream~
Personally I owned several iPod BEFORE (4-G iPod, iPod mini, iPod U2 and iPod nano... I know I was so silly of buying so many junk...)
These are the main reason for me to finally become an anti-ipoder:
1. no FM Radio (and seems it will keep this nasty tradition forever, then bye-bye ipod!!!)
2. brittle exterior (yeah, this makes ipod cases manufactories happy, but sorry my wallet just reject!)
3. iTunes (it's not a bad software, but I just love daps with MTP)
4. battery (last about 3 hours... finally been improved lately)
5. earphone (turn up to maximum volume, what you hear?!!! really don't know what Steve Jobs is thinking, bundle ipod with earphone worth $1 that can permanently damage your audition... been replaced to a new one lately)
I think that's enough reason for me to finally become an anti-ipoder!
well... i wouldn't say that i'm anti-ipod, it's just that i don't want to own one. my reasons:
1.) it seems like EVERYONE has an ipod. i don't like going with the flow too much. this is my primary reason
2.) no FM radio. even if i rarely use it, it's still great to have the option to listen to the radio if i want to
3.)UMS. ipod needs itunes and other DAPs are MTP.
4.)no video. (the nano, at least) not that i'm a hard core portable video viewer, but it's really cool to have a few episodes in your DAP sometimes. :D
ipod video is not an option coz it's HUGE compare to the miniplayer. plus, the capacity of 30, 60 GB is way more than i need. the 4GB is just right for me.
I'm an anti-ipod too :D
There are several things i have about it
- It's everywhere
- Everybody has it (any flavor, doesn't matter)
- Such a waste of space: nano's screen is barely noticeable, wasting almost all the player's usable front space and ipod video is HUGE, you can even thing about getting a backpack just to carry it!
- I dont like to have same things everyone has.
- In Costa Rica, where i live, you cannot find more than ipods, chinese no name usb memory-mp3 players and sansas
Well, so many ppl asked me which model my ipod is when they see my meizu!!! LOL
THEN when i show them what miniplayer is capable to do, they stop saying that is an ipod wannabe...
Personally I'm not particulalry anti iPod, but I am anti DRM and anti high prices.
Apple is tied into DMR with a proprietory format and there is not way I'm gonna support either of those.
Apple is also keeping prices uneccessarily high (99c should be more like 30c imho), I have no plans to add to the excessive millions they make through iTunes.
I've been looking for a long time for a viable alternative (I do actually believe the iPod is a very good device) and then the Meizu came to my attention.
I really hope it gets the mega sales it deserves as it is a very impressive piece of kit.
i dont like ipods for the following reasons:
1. screen too small
2. cannot adjust skins
3. everyone has it, and i dont know why the major companies wanna bundle with ipod (eg bedheads and even shoes now? nike...)
4. the earphones are down-to-earth crap as hell
5. physical size and screen do not match (unlike meizu, perfect!)
6. heaps more minor reasons (eg short battery, only compatible with itunes to upload music)
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I dont like the Ipod becuase its what everyone has!
My brother has a ipod video
My twin has a ipod video
my sister is getting a nano.
So i decided to be different. And get a Meizu W00t but seriously the ipod 30gb is really 27gb and i think the 60gb is like 50gb they take space off you know
Australia's leading consumer magazine CHOICE included the iPod in it's Top 10 Shonky's Awards for 2006:
The CHOICE iSHONK for Dual-level Shonkyness
Goes to the…
APPLE iPod
(CHOICE Computer, Sep/Oct 2005, and CHOICE, July 2006)
An iPod is a significant investment, so you don’t want your APPLE to be a lemon. And if there is something wrong with it, you’d expect an easy repair and warranty service. Podluck.
Level 1. Several readers complained about cracked screens, faulty batteries and problems with sound reproduction.
Level 2. APPLE doesn’t allow retailers to handle complaints under warranty (which is their obligation under Fair Trading laws) — you have to send your faulty iPod to APPLE yourself via Australia Post. And if they decide the fault isn’t covered by the warranty, you’ll have to foot the entire bill.
Portable standard storage with a an MP3 player / video front end appeals to the geek in me. It's exactly the kind of toy I want to own. If I weren't technically savvy, an iPod would be the way to go, and I'd use Apple's media service to buy songs.
However, given that I am a programmer type, restricting my access to the device and forcing the use of bloatware is simply flying in the face of reality; it's just not necessary.
I'm not really an anti-iPoder. I never had one but i don't want one either.
There are different reasons ..
- I want video function, but i don't want to pay >200EUR
- Not only the iPod, also the asseccories are very expensive
- Every idiot thinks he is cool if he has an iPod ... I don't want to be one of them... everybody has an iPod .. so if you have an iPod you are just another nobody :P
- being forced to use a special software to copy files onto the mp3-player? I hate this!
- huge size + big display = okay ..... smal size + small display = ok .... but huge size + small display Ô.ô = NOT ok!
Lately I have talket to a friend.. telling him about the Meizu M6 and that i'm planing to order one. Another friend was listening, too. And he said: "Woot? What do you want with a noname? You better buy an iPod. I have one, too!" ......
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..... AHRG! shut up! I dont want your stupid iCrap!
I <3 using OGG and FLAC, so that already eliminates the iPod, though I suppose I could run Rockbox... I just find that iPods aren't worth the money for many of the reasons listed above. Also I really dislike Apple in general, and its products
Everryone has em
You have to buy extra stuff for it to be able to go to its full ability (unlike the mP that has almost everything it needs)
The proportions, I mean, I dont own one, but looking in the magazine at a MP3 that has a half inch screen (not really) to a 1 foot body isn's exactly that cool, I mean they could have widened the screen a tiny bit!
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i wouldn't call myself a nanti-ipod. I like the design and it's functions blabla .. BUT the meizu is better. It's smaller, cheaper, has better sound quality, doesn't recommend iTunes ( i actually like this software, but DRM sux ) and it's size is better, too.
in my opinion "iCrap" is a bit too hard, but the M6 ist certainly better than the iPod.
I was at a store where they sell iPods yesterday, so I could compare my miniplayer with it. I found out that the iPod touchwheel works smoother and better than meizu's, but the miniplayer size rocks compared to iPod's.
I couldn't compare sound quality, though.
I'm sorta Anti-Ipod, but I've been warming to the new Video Ipod...
Basically I liked the Original Idea of the Ipod, a Mass Storage device that doubles as an MP3 player and initially they were made fairly well, the 1Gs that is then as popularity took over Apple went down a path i didn't like..
1. Mass Producing for Consumers without checking whether it works properly.
2. Not creating new software for transferring files, maintaining software that is largely flawed and outdated.
3. And overall loss of Original Apple philosophy of Products that would last ages and have no problems.
I have had to help my sisters with their iPoos for a few years, it works for 6mths, dies, you bring it in to get 'serviced' or in reality exchanged for a newer similarly flawed iPoo, 6mths later it dies, and this vicious cycle continues... until you say no more and leave it to gather dust with some 5.25" floppies that seem to have more use.
Anyway the newer iPods sound like they have a lot less problems, but still i like to customise, be different...and enjoy my music and videos in good quality sound and image...Hence my Meizu Miniplayer...and maybe the updated version of the Cowon A2 when it comes out...
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