Dude Knows Better Than Apple, Offers Way To Perfect The iPod
- May 16th, 2007
- 9 Comments
All credit to Wired’s Leander Kahney, for he and he alone knows how to fix the iPod. You know, the iPod that rejuvenated Apple, helping transform it from Apple Computer to Apple, Inc. It seems Kahney thinks that there’s something& mdash; some things — wrong with Apple’s portable media player. They “bug” him. Watch out, world, Kahney’s on a tear.
• Apparently, the menu scrolls the wrong way. Quick, someone telephone Apple’s incompetent industrial design teams because their design is wrong. According to Kahney, the menus should scroll up and down instead of sideways. “But to back up the menu tree, you must hit the “Menu” button at the top of the scroll wheel. Instead, I instinctively hit the “Rewind button” on the left hand side of the scroll wheel, which is the wrong button.” There it is. Because he keeps hitting the rewind button Everyone Else must surely do the same. Hence, the iPod’s broken.
• The menu doesn’t wrap and you can’t scroll backwards through the alphabet. Since he insists on choosing songs by going the long way—music, artist, album, song—it takes him a long way to get to White Zombie. I guess creating a playlist called “Lame Music” is too much to ask. Broken.
• There’s no autofill for larger iPods. Well blow me down that is a huge problem. In no way should Apple expect me to make playlists of my choice, smart or otherwise, to fill my iPod with. I want iTunes to fill it automatically with my “tunes.” Broken!
What a load of hogwash from Kahney. Why is it that because he gets confused by the iPod’s menu structure or can’t get over the fact the iTunes isn’t automatic enough for him he needs to inform the world. I’m sure Apple is listening. His lone, howling voice is coming across loud and clear.
Three Little Quibbles About the IPod [Wired - Cult of Macintosh]
ihsNots (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Leander Kahney’s a noob
akatsuki (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Autofill of playlists would be nice actually.
What I want is a way to have my iPod appear offline within iTunes but still let me make changes so that I can change the playlists around freely, and have them updated when I sync next.
Riprather (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Now I know why journalists chuckle about the howls from the (us) faithful whenever they dare to question something from Apple.
Get over it, he made at least two of three good points.
Dave (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Kind of a stupid list. There is one thing that I want for my iPod.
A bookmark feature for long podcasts so that I can go back to the spot I left off at if I want to pause and listen to music for a while.
Tony (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Autofill? It’s called a smart playlist. My 4GB Nano is auto-filled every time I synch. I have a smart playlist consisting of songs that haven’t been played in the past 60 days, up to a 3GB limit. (I save the other GB for newly imported music…) Done, and done.
Cosmic (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Did you read the headline before posting this? “Three little quibbles about the IPod”
Did you read the introduction to the story before posting this? “It’s a testament to the iPod’s meticulous design that it took six years for these quibbles to bubble up.”
Did you read the story before posting this? Not once does Kahney say, “broken.” The closest he comes is on quibble #1, saying the visual mapping on the menus is “wrong.”
Did you read the comments to the story before posting this? Almost everyone agreed with him about the menu wrapping.
Was this whole post supposed to be ironic? Because if not, um, calling out a blogger for critiquing popular devices? Pot? Kettle? Black?
Chuckles (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Wow. I’m with Riprather and Cosmic. Don’t be such a spaz. Did this guy steal your girlfriend or something? No wait…I get it, you think of your ipod as your girlfriend. Get over it. I thought this was going to be some sort of useful hack or something, but instead I got more insight into a total stranger’s personal issues than I ever would have thought possible from an ipod blog post, and for some reason I am now wasting even more time that I’ll never get back writing this comment. Next time you post, take a deep breath first. For my own sake, I promise to take my own advice on this one too.
dwalk51 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
man, what a little whiny bitch he is.
If he doesn’t like it, well then f*ck him, he should get an Archos, or a Zune.
Besides, what with that music coverter that conveniently unprotects your music, he could use ANY device!
Chris Taylor (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Yeah fixing the ipod would be pretty easy. Not a chance in hell of apple doing it though.
First Eliminate itunes as mandatory. Give me mass storage access both ways (to the whole damned thing not just a section of it)
Give me DIRECT folder structure access on the portable screen. No more freaking databases and crap. Just let me see the MP3 folder and whatever the hell I toss into that MP3 Folder. Thats it. My playlists are already made up thankyou very much. I HATE playlists when they are database driven a royal pain in the ass.
I just want to DUMP my music on the player and be done with it. No playlists, No databases and most definitely NO FREAKING SOFTWARE.
I love my Creative Zen Vision (the good VGA one not the new crap M or W) since it GIVES me this direct access to my videos. So easy So Simply So straight forward. I do have to install software but its TWO WAY and just like windows Explorer IE straight directory access
SADLY its just as useless to me for music because it uses the same damned database driven access.
SURE I can MAKE playlists but then its ONE FRAKING MASSIVE LIST OF PLAY LISTS!!! There is no way to SUBDIVIDE the playlists.
so if I have 50 albums on there I Have to go through a list 50 items LONG to find anything while folder access would be so much faster!!
I hate that these companies insist on making interfaces and software WE DO NOT WANT. We only use it cause we HAVE TO.
I traded my ipod for another zodiac because I found it utterly useless for music at least the way I LISTEN to music.
Rock Box supposed fixes a lot of this CRAP from apple so I may give ipod another shot to see if rock box does what I want. I wish they would make rock box for my zen vision vga.
Its not the hardware. I love the hardware. I just HATE the damned software. Just give me a DRIVE LETTER. thats all I want - let me worry about how to organize my music.
I do not need your lame software I will never EVER purchase a DRM’d track even if it was given to me for free so I do not need your stupid software.