Ellie’s Blog

Unfortunately, one thing about being young is you can be really ignorant sometimes. It never seemed to occur to me that my friend’s iPod’s were breaking for no reason after about a year. But not mine. Because mine was special, and nobody would sell me something for 300 dollars that breaks in half a year. So here I am now, sitting with a puzzled look after I spent an hour troubleshooting, and trying to fix what I spent my summer hours saving up for. I tried to restart it, charge it, restore it, and I even opened the damn thing up to poke around inside and check up on all it’s hardware. Then I figure out that it can’t hold anymore battery charges. The iPod sure does have a sleek look, and they don’t waste time waiting for people to hear about their new models - they advertise like crazy. But they’re breaking so easily? Why is Apple getting away with this? Well, other then people being obsessed with keeping up with the newest news in gadgets and technology, I’ve gotten the feel that Apple is just taking in all it can get, because after a while, the iPod is going to run out of new sparks and will be flushed away and forgotten along with all those other dumb trends. Why should anyone pay 300 dollars for something that probably cost under 30 dollars to make? Usually I’d have no problem with that, it’s a great strategy to rake in the money. But I’m not going to pay a lot of money every year to be able to listen to music on the go.

If you REALLY want an iPod, I suggest looking on ebay. The price goes down quite a bit and you can get the last model (still fairly new) for quite a bit cheaper. You most likely won’t get ripped off.

For those of you who are still rooting for the iPod, take a look at a few facts on the interwebz.

1) iPod is completely incompatible with any other digital music technology.

2) Apple’s iPod is easily breakable, you can’t REALLY dance like they do on the commercials unless you’ve got the damn thing super glued to your hand.

3) Unless you’re a sneaky genius and know of a third-party software to use to get around Apples road-blocking “copyright infringement” bullcrap, then you can’t really move your iPod’s songs onto any other computer or electronic device.

4) The iPod’s battery life is pathetic. Only goes to about 500 charges. (Which is NOT that many)

5) Apple has gone through 14 different models in the past three years to keep at the top of it’s game. About two months after I had gotten my new iPod, the iPod touch had just came out. Basically, it was out of date before I’d even opened it.

6) iPods are the most commonly stolen MP3 player. The slick figure and the white headphones just give it away. Your MP3 player is way less likely to be stolen if it’s less identifiable.

7) Even with Apple’s impressive financial stats, they’ll still nickel and dime you every chance they can get to keep you maintaining your iPod.

8 ) After buying songs off iTunes, you can use it on your iPod and ONLY your iPod.

Maybe I’ll use my iPod as a wall ornament after a while.