Heh. A little out of touch with reality? These system requirements are nowhere advertised, nor printed on the box, nor posted on the shelf next to the product, nothing. The box is tiny, see-through, and shows the player device.THATS IT. The device is marketed as an mp3 player. It's been five days, and the thing hasn't played a damned tune yet. Where is a customer supposed to "read the system requirements"? At the Apple store? Have you actually *been* inside an Apple store? They're bleached white and sand-blasted glass and chrome on the inside. There are no signs. Certainly no signs warning users that, hey, the product might fail to function as advertised, or that you have to make warranty-voiding modifications to obtain the functionality that you paid a pretty penny for? Uhh, yeah.
From what I can tell, the thing is damaged by design, intentionally mis-engineered by Apple engineers to fail to function as advertised. What was also not clear at the time of purchase was the motive for this rather unpleasant experience. They are actually selling a vending machine, not a music player, and they want you to stick nickels and dimes into the damned app store to get the thing to work. As if $300 wasn't enough for the thing! WTF! I mean, yes, there's an economic crisis and Wall Street died and all, but all of a sudden Apple is so desperate to raise cash that it has to screw over their customers? That's inane! I'm still planning on plowing onward with this one, do the jailbreak thing if that's what it takes, but sheesh, I feel like a sucker. Does Apple seriously believe that they can sucker-punch their customers, and expect repeat purchases?
I mean, I know that Apple has hip marketing meant to attract hip people, and I'm uhh, kind-of not hip no more -- kind of just happens when you have kids. But I don't see how anyone who isn't totally hip-fetishized would put up with this B.S. I would have returned this by now, if my kid wasn't gaga nuts hypnotized by it.
