iPod conquering MP3 world

The Oregonian ^ | September 24, 2004 | WAYNE THOMPSON

[Swordmaker]

99 cents a tune is way too much. I can buy a CD with 15 tracks for $13, and it has to be pressed out of real plastic and the ucard has to be printed and the whole thing packaged and shipped to a store where the manager gets a salary and pays light, heat, and insurance bills and some pierced kid will get paid to wait for me to walk into his store so I can buy it. That's a bunch of overhead, and you have to add in the royalties and production cost and advertising.

Downloading the same tracks to an iPOD would cost more and the record companies don't have to pay the truck driver or the store manager or clerk. Where does the extra money go?

That's cheaper if you really WANT all of those 15 tracks on the CD... most CDs have only a couple of tunes I really like, the rest are garbage, as far as I am concerned. You can also use iTunes to rip your $15 CD and put the tunes on your iPod...

[SamAdams76]

There is something about the iPod that I can't explain. Like you, I spent the past couple years wondering what the buzz was all about. I thought it rather silly to obsess over what basically amounts to a small white box with a hard drive and I was perfectly content with my iRiver flash player, even though I had to change out the songs every week out of boredom (you could only put about 60 songs on the thing).

Since getting the iPod, I have been fascinated with the thing. I find myself constantly checking on it to make sure it is okay. Once I got up in the middle of the night because I thought I left it in another room and I like the iPod to sleep in the same room as me for some strange reason. It's a weird thing to explain until you get one yourself. I keep a soft rag around so I can buff it up and keep it shiny. I marvel at how it already has 2200 songs on it and even though I can fit almost another 8000 songs on it, I already have enough on there where I can hit shuffle and not hear the same song for weeks.

After about a month of having one, I now understand the buzz.

[MississippiMan]

Hmmm, can I borrow it? :-)

[DUCKING AND RUNNING]

MM

[wideminded]

A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod.

See story at:

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/rumormill/ipod_killing.html

There are various aspects of this story that don't make sense:

1. This must be one of the smaller objects with which anyone has been bludgeoned to death.

2. Why didn't the boyfriend fight back? If he was knocked unconscious after the first blow, why did Ms. Mathers continue to hit him with the iPod?

3. Why is it said that Pulaski died of "blunt trauma", but was "stabbed ... 40 to 80 times"? (Perhaps this has to do with how the iPod was held.)

4. How did this odd couple get together?

Most references to this story seems to trace back to the same website. There do not appear to be any major news organizations that picked up on this. Links to other news articles from the specified page appear to be dead. There are no other Internet references to the coroner quoted in the article. I'm thinking that the story be a hoax.

[Swordmaker]

There are various aspects of this story that don't make sense:

It makes sense if you realize it IS nonsense... it's a satire site.

[DBrow]

I realize you are just a hater, but at least come up with something that is actually wrong with the iPod.

beg pardon, iPOD is great, I am not a "hater". I do think the Apple tunes are too expensive, though, and you must take extra steps to create hard backups. Someone else posted about buying special greywear to unlock hidden directories so I can download to my HD and burn backups to CD or USB drive.

Maybe you missed those points I made?

I don't buy CDs with filler tunes on them, what would be the point? Look at "Are You Shpongled", every track fits the whole. Likewise "Younger Brother".

Yeah I can and do buy regular CDs and rip them to mey HD then MP3 player, and I do buy online music, but not at a buck a tune.