ipod

1. An MP3 player produced by Apple Computer, Inc. Its nice features include its small size, easy-to-use interface, clickwheel (bar none the best navigation system to date), syncing with iTunes, iTunes itself, polished looks. 2. An MP3 player that is constantly ripped on by people because: a) It's popular. These are the same people who stop listening to artists because they've "sold out". Shut the hell up. b) They don't have one, or can't afford them. This is understandable, as they can cost a lot. Buying a second-rate player like a SanDisk, iRiver, Rio for cheaper will end up hurting more than having patience and saving up for an iPod. c) Sometimes things go wrong with them. This is called 100% of products on the market. Seriously, you expect iTunes, a software made by a company that designs all its own hardware and software, to work on a PC with all of it's mixed-and-matched components, drivers, and parts. Puh-lease. Also, there's a simple reason why more people have problems with their iPods than people do with other players: Because more people have iPods! Duh! d) They don't come built in with features like an FM tuner, Ogg Vorbis playback, or compatibility with Napster/WMP/etc. Listen, you don't buy a toaster and expect it jerk you off, why complain about something like this. The features that other companies put into their machines to try and excel over the iPod are so trivial and pointless, that it is easy to see why Apple left them off. Have Ogg Vorbis files? Convert them. It's a sucky format. Use Napster? Switch to iTunes, where you actually get to keep your freaking music! If you really think that other players like iRivers and Zens are making up for their huge size, clumsy interfaces, and second-rate software integration, with a goddamn FM tuner and streaming radio, then fine. Just make sure to tell your nurse at the asylum to add a little cyanide to your pudding, you fucking idiot. Oh yeah. To the guy that said that iTMS was hurting the music industry, take a look at illegal downloading services. Those are what take money out of the artists' pockets. And iTMS is the reason the music industry is thriving. Do you not realize how many more people are purchasing music now that it is immediately available from their computer? My only regret is that there is no level of logic, facts, or evidence that can counteract the supreme level of stupidity in the people that have defined this word before me.