I bought the $600 iPhone in significant part to combine my iPod and cell phone. So it was disappointing that the iPhone does not work correctly with my two iPod enabled car stereos.
The iPhone music player user interface gets locked so I have to use the horrible interface on the car stereo head units. With the iPod, I can use its interface OR the horrible car stero interface.
The "Genius" at the Apple Store told me that this wasn't a bug... o rly?
As an Apple developer I reported this as a bug but Apple never responded.
How about finally making the iPod run on NORMAL batteries that we can replace? Just like we say on the Tuesday Night Tech show each week.
Apologies, shmapologies.
I'm reminded of my ex-girlfriend. She'd say or do something that annoyed me, we'd have an argument, and a day or two later she'd come back and "apologize." Then she'd go and do the same thing again.
I realized after awhile that she was not apologizing for what she'd done--she was apologizing for annoying me.
Frankly, one of the reasons I like Apple is that they put in the time and effort to get it right the fiirst time so there's no need to come back later and fix things and apologize. Or at least they used to.
Take ringtones as a fun example. If I were Apple, I'd've told the music companies to stuff it. I wouldn't have sold ringtones at all. Hackers would figure out how to add ringtones to the iPhone anyway.
In other words, I'd do it right the first time or I wouldn't do it all.
Apple, instead, chose to try to convince me that I need to pay 99 cents and rebuy part of a song that I already own. Rubbish.
So I'm certainly not going to buy a ringtone. But let's say I did. Six months later, Apple sees the light and ringtones are free because "you shouldn't have to pay twice."
Well, don't I feel like a patsy. Apple said I had to pay, now they say I don't?
Part of the problem with this "screw up, apologize, make right" is that it makes me skittish about buying things.
Fun example: Apple is selling "upgrades" to iTunes Plus music. This is a good thing. Of course, I discovered that some of my music is not eligible. Why? Because I bought the single as soon as it came out. If I'd waited and bought the album, I could have bought the upgrade.
Solution? Don't buy pre-release singles. Don't buy "iTunes Exclusives." You may end up getting hosed in the future.
I think it is a bunch of twaddle and have already deleted the ilounge rss feed from my news reader.
Mom used to say, "If you're not making mistakes you're not learning anything." Well, apparently, Apple has been learning a lot lately.
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