Garys iPod Review -10 Thats right, I give it a minus 10. I bought a 64 gig iPod from Frys in November of 2009. $389.00. Its an iPod, not an iPhone. Therefore, no camera! I paid $389.00 for no camera. That was stupid. Currently the iOS is 5.1.1. Although Apple has higher iOSs available, they are not for my iPod. I must trudge along with 5.1.1. Lets talk about Facebook. I cant listen to a Youtube video via Facebook, nor can I read an article via Facebook. When attempting to do so, I get kicked off and returned to the iPod home screen which displays Apps Icons. Not only that, if I merely scroll Facebook for more than a few minutes, it kicks me off and returns me to the home screen. In addition to this aggravation, try reading posts on the news feed. Thats almost impossible. I will be reading a post and it disappears and is replaced with another post. The order of posts also changes at random while I attempt to peruse the valued posts of friends. There may be 7 posts above the one I am reading, in order one moment then 15 of another and none of the original 7 can be found. Never mind the fact that it takes eons to load FB and eons to change pages. Never mind that changing pages is also likely to get me booted off and returned to the iPod home screen again where I get to see the Apps Icons. I cant edit from iPod on FB comments or posts from the iPod. I cant copy a URL from FB with the iPod. But hey! I got 64 gigs of space!! Lots of space and no power. And the battery!! It nearly needs to be constantly connected to power. I have never seen a battery go so fast as in this iPod. From the time I bought it. You mean these geniuses did all this on accident? I seriously dont think they are that incompetent. I think they are maliciously mischievous. Ever see an instruction manual for one of these? I havent, nor for the insanely slow iTunes that you need to load this thing with music. Thats right, this so called genius device needs a real computer to operate. Yeah! You cant download a video or a song onto it. You have to download onto a computer, then transfer into the iTunes library with no instructions, then you have to hook up the iPod to the computer and Sync all. Hopefully you did it right, with no instructions. This thing is nearly useless, usually aggravating. It works great if you want to play casino games or race a car. It works great for anything that is a waist of time or that corrupts you. Hmmm isnt that interesting. Apple as in the fruit of that bad tree, is good for aggravation, corruption, wasting time but is useless for anything I want to do that is constructive. I recommend staying a million miles away from an iPod as well as other of these type of devices. I recommend a lap top. Its portable, has WiFi, has full functionality, not just pretend half baked functionality, and is not dependent on another device. Although, my display screen on my Hewlett Packard did go out just after the warranty expired. I am about ready to ditch all this crap and go back to pencil and paper. Sometime in the future, I may post a video of me chopping this $389.00 joke of a device in pieces with my Estwing Axe. Now thats a real device! An Estwing Axe! That does the job. In fact, I would be willing to trade my $700.00 Hewlett Packard and my $389.00 iPod wantabee thingemajobber for the same dollar value of Estwing tools. Now that would be a worthy, functional and lasting investment. I could always just go to a library to post stuff on the internet. I really dont need all this stuff in the house. I have access to Wordpress, Blogger, etc.. with great Publishing functionality at a library. Conclusion - buy real tools - the day of these devices is about to end. At least for me. Just think of the rototiller I could have bought with $1089.00. Or the carpentry bag fully furnished. And these tools dont aggravate me. They just do the job they were made for. Imagine that today; buying something that actually works. Huh!! oh no!! I spoke ill of Apple! Gasp, exclaim!! Oh my! The emperor is naked!! I have come to the conclusion that the only value in these devices is a superficial reward of looking like the guy in the commercial. Hey, look at me, I have one. Pfffft. Useless mechanical boxes of malfunctioning brains produced by the same.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:52:29 +0000
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