Re: Re: let's all complain
Originally posted by KLFloyd
Ok, you should have just stopped when you said you DON'T know every technical detail about the new iPod. Unless you work for Apple and were on the design team you don't know what the differences are between the old and new versions. Bottom line is no one outside Apple currently knows if the old iPods will even support 2.0.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 4 months you knew iPod updates were coming.
I thought the point of my post was pretty clear, but people seem to have missed it.
First of all, I don't work at apple and I don't know the specific specs of the new vs the old iPods, but since I have not been living under a rock, I know that the original iPods were designed to be more powerful than they really needed to be to play mp3s. This is why people have hacked the thing to add newsreaders, run linux, etc. It is also why people have been clamouring for apple to add more PDA-like functions, because it is clear that the hardware is capable of supporting more features than Apple has implimented. Apple responded by adding some features, like contacts, but they wanted to keep the iPod as primarily a music player, so they limited the features that they decided to add. Apple added AAC support to old iPods so that current owners could use the new store. I guarauntee you that AAC support takes up at least 100 times more code than on-the-go playlists, changing star ratings (appears to be a new feature, as yet unmentioned - check the tech specs page) and customizing the main menu. That said, I suppose it is theoretically possible that the implimentation of AAC support just filled my little iPods firmware brain to the rim, spilling frothy code-head over onto the table, leaving not a single kilobyte free for an on-the-go playlist, so Apple's iPod software team hung their collective heads in sorrow for not being able to deliver these usefull features to us old iPod owners, who had asked so nicely for them in the first place, becuase, darnit, they just plain couldn't. It's possible, but it's NOT VERY LIKELY.
Apple decided to tease us old iPod owners and say "hey, you know all those handy features you guys have been suggesting for the last year or so? You remember, queuing up songs on you pod, changing the ratings? Guess what, they're available now. All you have to do, is buy a NEW iPod! Aren't we great? Give us money!"
Now like I said, I'm not an idiot. I know stuff gets updated and I don't expect my Powerbook 100 to run Jaguar, and I don't think the computer/iPod analogy holds much water anyway, but it seems clear to me (even though I don't work at apple) that they could easily give us these features--that I personally requested several months ago through the feedback page--if they really wanted to.
So my point is not that we deserve free updates forever just for doing apple the favor of buying their product. My point it that there is (MOST LIKELY) no barrier to Apple giving us these features and they would (MOST LIKELY) not be missing out on any sales by making them available. So by not making them available, they are just being annoying. So I am going to annoy them back through the feedback page and I encourage others to do likewise.
As for me living under a rock, I have been writing a thesis for the last 4 months, which is like living under a rock, but not quite as fun, and I still new iPod updates were coming. I also new old iPods would support ACC and that the new ones would be ugly. None of this mattered to me much though, because I was happily listening to the iPod I bought 8 months ago, wishing only that I could lower the star rating on that one crappy song on Give Up without having to go back to my computer.
Off to complain to apple....
