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beware ipod

My inital experience with the new 40gb ipod was excellent but the honeymoon is over! The unit has completely died after only several weeks of use. Numerous glitches forced me to constantly "reboot" the unit until it stopped working completely. Battery life never came close to the claimed eight hours, plus you are unable to back-up audio files from the ipod thanks to apple becoming a lackey for the music industry. I really feel like I have been taken to the cleaners on this purchase. I spent the better part of a week loading .wav files onto the unit and to have it completely crash so quickly means that apple obviously has some quality issues. The ipod is based on an off the shelf Toshiba hardrive that retails for a couple of hundred dollars so you are paying apple for the interface and the cute plastic box. I love electronics and have spent a fortune on them over the years but no purchase has been such a huge disappointment. Avoid the temptation to buy what seems like a great unit. Steven Jobs has no clothes.
ntscdan
rsbeck
887 posts
 
I love my ipod. However, repeated attempts to have it make coffee have failed. Despite numerous demonstrations, it fails to learn these simple tasks.
I've completely given up. I'm only using the ipod for music. Yes, in that regard, it has performed flawlessly, but I still have to make my own coffee,
walk my own dog, and program my own Tivo.
ben_campbell
1,164 posts
 
It's worth noting as well you can back up files from an iPod with the correct software which is available to download...
rshak
309 posts
 
I've had an ipod since last October - - works great; no problems. FWIW, I've used Macs for 10 years - have 4 of them - and wouldn't use any thing else now. As others have said, you probably just got a lemon.
ntscdan OP
52 posts
 
I appreciate that most people seem to love their ipod but their is absolutely no excuse for the lack of quality control that I have encountered. As for their legendary "support"...the manual that comes with the ipod is an absolute joke...the dreaded folder with an exclamation mark icon that pops on the screen to tell you that you are hooped isn't even mentioned in the manual. Wading through apple's web site isn't much better. I called the 800 number and wound up in voicemail hell and finally gave up. For all you ipod lovers....may the force be with you. And to the fellow that mentioned the "hack" that allows you to "decloak" the audio files for downloading off the ipod...it worked about as well as the unit. I love the concept of what the ipod is all about but I guess I am going to have to wait for a real manufacturer like Sony to come up with something. I should have known better than to trust a hard drive. As a side note...Sony's broadcast television division has pretty much given up on using hard drives to capture professional video....too unreliable. Their latest broadcast camera uses a 45gb optical disc.
kublakhan
717 posts
 
can't back up files?
can someone explain this to me before i buy one? i figure it's going to take a LONG time to get all my cds into the ipod. is there no way to back them up? can't you convert your cds IN your computer, make a copy and download that copy into the ipod?
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