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Re: [ProgSoc] iPod ripoff.



On Fri February 18 2005 08:27 am, Nathan de Vries wrote:
 ] On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Christian Kent wrote:
 ] > I'll reply to this email in a year, shall I?
 ] 
 ] Perhaps I'm a little slow, but I don't get it :D. I'll blame it on the 
 ] late night last night.

 At first I thought it was a dig at the one-year battery life of the
 iPod .. but that wouldn't make sense, given the context.

 What makes you think this thing plays oggs?

 It doesn't play flacs, either.

 The ability to play WMA-DRM really shouldn't be listed as a feature.

 No reference to gapless playback, so it probably doesn't have it.

 Inbuilt batteries blow.

 No FM receiver, let alone transmitter.

 'Up to 5,000 songs'?  Bollocks.  That gives you something less than
 4MB per song.  Maybe last century this was acceptable.  I wish they'd
 stop advertising capacity in such fluid terms - it's not as though
 there's no [better, more accurate, precise] terms.  Like meatybytes.

 When they cite three obsolete and one contemporary Microsoft OS
 as the only four supported platforms, it implies the 'Works as a USB
 storage device' claim might be as loosely interpreted as it is for
 other players.

 The search continues.

 Jedd.


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