Why iPods??

[jbeckva]

Ok.. (putting on me ole "Andy Rooney" skeptical hat here)

Can someone please explain to me what the big deal is with iPods versus players that can play a heck of a lot more formats than just iTunes and whatnot? Why is it that everyone wants to fork over 2 to 3 times as much for the same .. daggone.. thing?

Yeah ok.. nice pretty big display and other bells and whistles for an iPod. Big deal. I'm not sitting there staring at my MP3 player - I'm listening to it.

Just good ole marketing madness, I think. Someone tell me different...

 

[Skywavebe]

Hi Jerry,
Most of this has to do with marketing. Remember the better VCR format back in the VHS Beta war? Well there really was no comparison until they came out with SVHS but still Sony made major mistakes in marketing and how they treated other makers until it was too late.
It seems that Sony does not ever learn from their mistakes- they do the same thing with MD and so on. Now a smart marketer comes up with a solid state tape deck- well there is no tape involved. This makes the memory people estatic, the tape deck people who are already on the way out for making cheap plastic and dual cassette type decks- even the typical consumer can figure out that they are junk after the warranty runs out- I could have told then from Day 1.
So, now we are dealing with a dumb crowd of teenagers that do not even know what reel tape or cassettes are about and if they saw one it would probably be the cheap plastic stuff that was on it's last leg. Combine that with Ipod (Apple) marketing that takes large groups of people by storm and you have a way to sell a lot of cheap made plastic boxes that are made in China or Korea that make nothing but profit for the sellers and where do they put the money back into lots of stupid advertising for the numb brained teenager that for some reason seems to be getting more stupid all the time.
There you have it. The Ipod or whatever they want to call it is not a bad idea in itself, but due to the way it is implemented it is a mediocre device. Why they are so expensive is due to how much stupid people are willing to pay- Do I have one? NO, Am I going to buy an I Phone? NO. To me this texting and aps is all a bunch of crazy child play.
I even know 27 year olds that are glued to the thing like if they looked away they would blow up. Their behavior the rest of the time matches the mentality of a Teenager. And this guy wants to be a Cop. Ha!
Now I know they are not going to start making cassette decks again or Reel Decks but isn't there a better solution that these mind emptying devices for young people to deal with. Talk to a teenager and they will not see my view- The fact is I don't care. It is all part of the dumbing down of America just before they attack.

 

[Web Police]

Ok.. (putting on me ole "Andy Rooney" skeptical hat here)

Your eyebrows need trimming.

Can someone please explain to me what the big deal is with iPods versus players that can play a heck of a lot more formats than just iTunes and whatnot? Why is it that everyone wants to fork over 2 to 3 times as much for the same .. daggone.. thing?

Yeah ok.. nice pretty big display and other bells and whistles for an iPod. Big deal. I'm not sitting there staring at my MP3 player - I'm listening to it.

Just good ole marketing madness, I think. Someone tell me different...

I have a Rio solid state MP3 player, it was like $50 or so and holds enough music for my tastes. Why anyone wants and IPOD to store all their music is beyond me. I put a selections on my portable and when I get tired of hearing songs I delete them and add something new. My player appears like a additional drive on my computer and I can drag and drop files without the stinking itunes software.

Let me guess the Germinator wants an Ipod from Santa?

Good luck with that one.

 

[jbeckva]

Let me guess the Germinator wants an Ipod from Santa?
Good luck with that one.

Nah, she's good with a boombox we gave here with a bunch of kid tunes on CD.

Yeah, what I'm getting at is the "stigma" of the iPod itself compared to just a regular old MP3 player. Don't you have to subscribe to the iTunes service to get anything useful out of it, for example? That's baloney. There are plenty of other ways, much cheaper, to load up your player nowadays.

Fools... one other thing... a lot of peripheral components nowadays say they have an "iPod dock" or whatever. Really? Why not just a good ole fashioned 1/8" stereo input jack hooked up to the headphones output of the player? Or is THAT what people are being fooled into believing is an "iPod dock"?

Yeah.. Apple did some serious marketing to pull this off. But yeah.. like Sam says... they can get away with it because of the mental level out there today. JMHO, of course...