- Oct 17, 2000
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That's right, I hate the ipods.
Back when mp3 players were barely coming out, I owned a Roxio Volt, which had a max of 64-128MB SD card in it. Back then in 2000, it was the sh!t. Then I went towards the CD (mp3) players, again, it was Roxio, it was also the sh!t at it's time.
Then, I started seeing the Creative brands come up. I got myself a nice 30gig Creative Zen Xtra Nomad for under $200 back then, I felt top dog....
...then all of sudden ipods begin to be the trend... the "mp3" player to have. Commercials make them look cool and their unique "white" earphone wires make it flag out to everyone "hey! I have an expensive POS, I'm cool!"
During this time I get jacked for my Creative player at my own party (a$$holes), so this year I get into the market for a new mp3 player. Back when I got my 30giger, these were barely reaching $250 in price. Now the market is flooded with these mp3 players well over 250 and has all these retarded features like video playback, games, whatever... crap I simply do not NEED.
All I want is a simple player, one that does it's job, a real "mp3" player. I can't find anything and all I find are overpriced (yes i know the concept of S&D) players with features I do not care for...
So i say screw it, I go to ebay and find a Creative Zen Xtra for $130, old school for the win.
However, I do not have my sweet leather case since that was jacked as well, so I proceed to go to BestBuy and Target to find some kind of replacement. What do I see? "IPOD casing" for your "NANO" for your "iRIVER" for your iTHIS for your iTHAT. That's fine, ok, great, I still need a case for my creative.... well no one makes it apparently, not even the genertic universal brands. It seems everyone is wanting a piece of the ipod glazed pie.
I say screw it...but while I'm at BestBuy and since I have some gift certificates to use, oh and since I've been meaning to buy a new stereo for my 05' scion tc (before it got all trendy) I head to the car stereo section.
Everything there is ipod focused. "IPOD" ready. Wow, my mp3 player can definately work since it is just a basic male-male aux connection, but wtf is up with all this "IPOD" ready crap. It's "MP3 ready" you bastards!
Everywhere you go, everything seems to be "ipod" ready. I gotta admit though, they are certainly targetting the right customers and doing one hell of a marketing strategy, but it freakin' annoys the hell out of me!!! I just hate how everywhere you go when you read mp3 it equals ipod. Am I alone?
/end of rant. TGIF, have a good one.
danny~!
Back when mp3 players were barely coming out, I owned a Roxio Volt, which had a max of 64-128MB SD card in it. Back then in 2000, it was the sh!t. Then I went towards the CD (mp3) players, again, it was Roxio, it was also the sh!t at it's time.
Then, I started seeing the Creative brands come up. I got myself a nice 30gig Creative Zen Xtra Nomad for under $200 back then, I felt top dog....
...then all of sudden ipods begin to be the trend... the "mp3" player to have. Commercials make them look cool and their unique "white" earphone wires make it flag out to everyone "hey! I have an expensive POS, I'm cool!"
During this time I get jacked for my Creative player at my own party (a$$holes), so this year I get into the market for a new mp3 player. Back when I got my 30giger, these were barely reaching $250 in price. Now the market is flooded with these mp3 players well over 250 and has all these retarded features like video playback, games, whatever... crap I simply do not NEED.
All I want is a simple player, one that does it's job, a real "mp3" player. I can't find anything and all I find are overpriced (yes i know the concept of S&D) players with features I do not care for...
So i say screw it, I go to ebay and find a Creative Zen Xtra for $130, old school for the win.
However, I do not have my sweet leather case since that was jacked as well, so I proceed to go to BestBuy and Target to find some kind of replacement. What do I see? "IPOD casing" for your "NANO" for your "iRIVER" for your iTHIS for your iTHAT. That's fine, ok, great, I still need a case for my creative.... well no one makes it apparently, not even the genertic universal brands. It seems everyone is wanting a piece of the ipod glazed pie.
I say screw it...but while I'm at BestBuy and since I have some gift certificates to use, oh and since I've been meaning to buy a new stereo for my 05' scion tc (before it got all trendy) I head to the car stereo section.
Everything there is ipod focused. "IPOD" ready. Wow, my mp3 player can definately work since it is just a basic male-male aux connection, but wtf is up with all this "IPOD" ready crap. It's "MP3 ready" you bastards!
Everywhere you go, everything seems to be "ipod" ready. I gotta admit though, they are certainly targetting the right customers and doing one hell of a marketing strategy, but it freakin' annoys the hell out of me!!! I just hate how everywhere you go when you read mp3 it equals ipod. Am I alone?
/end of rant. TGIF, have a good one.
danny~!
Still here but generally lurk the OT forums now.
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