Apple

Those of you who know me probably know that I hate Apple.

Why?

The same reason I hate Sony.

Their products are expensive just for the sake of being expensive. You pay for the brand. I can buy the same thing from another company that is of the same quality for far less.

Second, their proprietary software and hardware sucks. Why must Apple use a different format than everyone else? If I wanna hook my laptop up to a monitor I don't want to carry around an adapter cable. If I buy an mp3 player, I don't want to use the included headphones. If I wanna put things on my ipod, I don't want to use itunes.

And now that we are on the subject of itunes, I have been using it lately and I have come to hate it. First of all, I deleted the tunes on my ipod only to learn that I cannot sync it with my library.

Why?

Because I have an 8gb ipod nano and a music collection of 81gigs. Itunes says, "You don't have enough space on your ipod!" No crap! I want you to randomly sync music on my ipod so that I may hear random music in my library on the go. Itunes says, "Nope, you can't do that."

So I have to create a playlist that pulls 7 gigs of random songs from my library and manually sync them over. Fine. I can deal with that.

I've been listening to my random music at work lately and rating them on my ipod for future use. I figure it is a good way to organize my music by what I like and what I don't. Wrong.

You can't transfer song ratings from the ipod back to itunes.

You know why? Because syncing isn't enabled. I call SHENANIGANS

Oh and I just noticed this--When you select a song on the window there are 4 little arrows to click on. Guess what!

They link you to the song in the itunes store.

Now why in the world would I want to buy a song that is already in my library?

I'm glad I'm getting a zune now.



Edit: Also, I just noticed that I have duplicate songs in my library. Awesome. Also, itunes runs really slow when playing music and trying to browse my collection at the same time. Good job.