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08/16/2005, 6:40pm, EDT

Tuesday, August 16th

iPodNN: Belkin Shuffle adapter, iPod bashing, ...

iPodNN roundup: Belkin today announced its dock adapter for iPod shuffle, an add-on that lets users connect iPod accessories with the dock connector through the Shuffle's USB port... One columnist has posted an editorial criticizing the iPod as well as iTunes.... BellSouth has announced a marketing deal pairing high-speed internet service with a free membership to the "Napster To Go" portable subscription music service, leaving iPod owners in the cold.... Wells Fargo has followed the lead of Gap's iTunes promo by offering free iTunes songs as an incentive learn about its banking services.... Alwaysstock is ovvering a free iPod mini to customers who purchase any eight images or two CD collections by November 30th.... Scosche Industries is now shipping a Bluetooth wireless iPod interface for aftermarket brand-name head units and home audio systems.


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08/16, 7:49pm, EDT
Is this guy serious. What doofus deletes his iPod contents TWICE? The first time I can understand, the second time, you're an idiot. I guess boxo the clown here is incapable of reading dialog boxes.

And exactly what is he talking about with the double storage. ANYBODY who keeps there entire collection on the MP3 player and suffers a HD crash deserves to pay for all their music again.

What an idiot.
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An Idiot Whiner
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08/16, 7:55pm, EDT
Doofus is right. And this guy is a columnist for an electronic engineering magazine? I guess that his friends are idiots, too, since they've erased their iPods as well. You'd think that the first one to do it would've warned the others to be careful. The guy also doesn't seem to understand about DRM - which is why bi-directional copying of music is not a native feature.
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"ovvering"?
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08/16, 9:12pm, EDT
Wow, I am now convinced this site is run by the same people that run slashdot - misleading healines, bad spelling, the works!
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Duh!
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08/16, 9:34pm, EDT
"In no time at all, I'd erased all the content I'd laboriously downloaded onto my iPod. Twice.

Several friends have done the same thing, so this is apparently not an isolated case of "cockpit error." "

- Birds of an idiotic feather definitely are flocking together.

"The software's operation is utterly counterintuitive, but with no other user interface it's the only way to get your $300 hard drive to do anything at all."

- Someone should tell him that iTunes operates in ENGLISH, not by toggling in binary on the front panel.
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Notorious Apple basher
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08/16, 10:20pm, EDT
Turley is a notorious Apple basher and has been for a long time. He is to be ignored. Notice how he sets himself as the only rational person on the planet and all the millions of iPod users are idiots. He is what Spiro Agnew used to call an effete snob.
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Quite simply...
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08/16, 10:25pm, EDT
Quite simply...the gentleman who blasted the iPod and iTunes is an over-the-top Apple-hater. No other reasonable person would have such harsh words. I understand that not everyone likes iTunes and iPod, but, c'mon! Claiming that iTunes is "counterintuitive" and that the iPod is nothing more than a hard drive with a play button? Even some of the biggest Windows/Microsoft fans (if there are any) who dislike both iTunes and the iPod wouldn't write such outlandish material.
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Twice?
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08/17, 8:11am, EDT
He erased it twice? He's an editor in chief of a technology magazine and he erased it twice?

I really don't think further comment is necessary.
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Re; double storage
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08/17, 10:50am, EDT
I don't know about this guy, but my brother got an iPod and wanted to just store the music on it, rather than also on his computer (he's got the CDs, and didn't want to waste the disk space). So, i told him "Plug it in. When asked, tell itunes not to manage the iPod. Then you can copy whatever you want to it, set up playlists on it, etc. If you told it to manage your music, then just go into preferences and uncheck the option."

It ain't hard. Many people do it. Although the guy's an engineer, so he probably needs some 10-year-old to explain it to him.

BTW, they probably erased all their music because they were trying to dump all their music on their iPods, take it to another computer, and copy them off, it came up with the message "Do you want itunes to manage this ipod" and they said yes. Twice.
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