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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
Show me one consumer review site that says iPods have awful durability, are more expensive, have poor battery life, and don't let you drag and drop (from iTunes), and worse sound quality than other mp3 players. I agree the headphones are cheap, and uncomfortable for that matter.
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I think you are completely missing the point; a lot of us don't want to use iTunes. We want to take the music and videos from one source, and without installing some 3rd party app on our computers. Especially a 3rd party app that takes control of your device and its content.
For example; I go to a bar and the house band has some good music. I can give the guy my Walkman and he can drop all of their MP3s onto my Walkman. If I try to do that with an iPod; as soon as I sync it with my home computer those tracks will be gone forever. Or let's say the band member tells me to please give those songs to anybody I like; with an iPod I cannot.
Yes, I'm sure there are ways around it. You can configure the software; install yet another 3rd party app, etc. Or with the Walkman it works the way it has always worked since Windows 95.
And iTunes' "drag and drop" really isn't. I had put a bunch of videos onto my iPhone; and then later on decided to add some more music. Because I didn't want to take up extra space on my netbook (where iTunes is installed) I deleted the videos from my netbook once they were on my iPhone. Why wouldn't I; they were already where I needed them to be. Turns out iTunes decided that seeing as they were no longer on the Netbook; they should also be removed from the iPhone.