Brian
02-12-2006, 12:50 AM
No, no, Nano (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/8928/No+no+Nano/)
"Apple is the computer outfit that's all about simplicity and logic, if you believe its corps of cultists followers.
How, then, to explain the nightmare in our home occasioned by the arrival of a brand new iPod Nano portable music player? Call this a cautionary tale about believing the Apple-simplicity hype.
I am reminded of this mid-January disaster by news that Apple has introduced a new, cheaper, smaller-capacity Nano: $149 and 1 GB of storage, or about 240 songs at the assumed rate. It's a smart play by Apple because people will like the machine but soon grow frustrated by the limited storage space. And that means upgrade, a second purchase.
In our house, though, we almost didn't make it to the stage where you can actually listen to the songs.
My wife had tired of the limited song collection on her 512 MB iRiver player. So for her early January birthday, I set aside my aversion to Apple orthodoxy and surprised her with a sleek, black Nano, 4GB (8x the iRiver capacity).
There were things we didn't like, especially the lack of a radio, which meant that you couldn't tune in to the TV channels at the Y where she works out, and the machine's utterly preposterous failure to ship with a plug-in charger, a $30 add-on at Apple store.
I told her I had seen that Sandisk will have its own 4GB flash-memory (meaning that, like the Nano, it has no hard drive) player that would include a radio, but it wouldn't be out till March, and it was, while still ultraportable, twice as thick as the Nano. After a week or so of mulling it over, she decided to go with the bird in the hand, the hip consumer accessory, and the uncontestedly first-rate sound and interface. She opened the Nano box. "
Read full story here (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/2006/02/no_no_nano.html)
"Apple is the computer outfit that's all about simplicity and logic, if you believe its corps of cultists followers.
How, then, to explain the nightmare in our home occasioned by the arrival of a brand new iPod Nano portable music player? Call this a cautionary tale about believing the Apple-simplicity hype.
I am reminded of this mid-January disaster by news that Apple has introduced a new, cheaper, smaller-capacity Nano: $149 and 1 GB of storage, or about 240 songs at the assumed rate. It's a smart play by Apple because people will like the machine but soon grow frustrated by the limited storage space. And that means upgrade, a second purchase.
In our house, though, we almost didn't make it to the stage where you can actually listen to the songs.
My wife had tired of the limited song collection on her 512 MB iRiver player. So for her early January birthday, I set aside my aversion to Apple orthodoxy and surprised her with a sleek, black Nano, 4GB (8x the iRiver capacity).
There were things we didn't like, especially the lack of a radio, which meant that you couldn't tune in to the TV channels at the Y where she works out, and the machine's utterly preposterous failure to ship with a plug-in charger, a $30 add-on at Apple store.
I told her I had seen that Sandisk will have its own 4GB flash-memory (meaning that, like the Nano, it has no hard drive) player that would include a radio, but it wouldn't be out till March, and it was, while still ultraportable, twice as thick as the Nano. After a week or so of mulling it over, she decided to go with the bird in the hand, the hip consumer accessory, and the uncontestedly first-rate sound and interface. She opened the Nano box. "
Read full story here (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/2006/02/no_no_nano.html)