Comments on: Latest iPod UI Is Crap

By: Wilbur

Wilbur — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:16:41 +0000

I have to agree I just want my music and I don’t use video, though album art is a nice feature but not as necessary as the album info.

What is really annoying about iPod / apple is-‘they don’t give a rat’s arse about you’.
if your product goes wrong you have had it, they will try everything to not give you a new iPod.
Their software has ruined many thousands of shuffles and there only suggesting to me and my friends was ‘we suggest you upgrade’.
God help anyone who has a problem with their device in the UK, apple are terrible, massive surprise for a BIG company.
But what can we expect from the USA all gloss and no standards, just look at the iphone….joke, just like the iPod it does what the manufacturer wants not what the customer wants.
They should take a leaf out of Microsoft’s book the Xbox had a problem and now everyone gets a 3 year warranty.

Apple sucks!!

By: lt.milo

lt.milo — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:01:02 +0000

^I must agree. The new ipods may look a lot sleeker but they have a lot of learning to do from the Zune.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:15:30 +0000

They should have taken a page out of the Zune book (hear me out guys). The Zune displays the cover art in the background behind the text. The background art is displayed at what looks like half brightness.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:51:58 +0000

Actually, it sounds like you couldn’t care less, but I digress. The floating album art is a bit distracting, but I dig the idea of it. Just make it fixed in place. Apple needs to do a better job of grabbing album art to make Cover Flow useful. For example, I have an 80s compilation (Left of the Dial) on my new nano, and songs from the first disc have the cover art, but songs from discs 2-4 do not. Why? Of course, since you don’t purchase from the iTMS, that means you ripped everything from CD, right (of course you did), so you have no excuse not to have cover art.