On idevices, if yoiu insist, my real life experience with ipod touch 2nd gen, that I bought for my mom a couple of years ago:
Act one, iPod Touch 2nd gen and me on my own:
1) I open the box, see nice looking device, switch it on, it says "connect me". Oh well.
2) I connect it, it asks me to install iTunes. Quite annoying, but what could I do, I corrupt my notebook with iTunes, that I find neither intuitive, nor nice looking, nor do I have any need in an extra pgoram to work with my files..
3) I convert (without using any ithingies) some of my own videos and oh, there are no folders, but horray, at least it works, I've put my videos there, cool! Now I want to copy the pictures from my PC, and we are done.
4) I connect mentioned piece of hardware to my PC. Oh, "install itunes" again. I swear and corrupt my nice PC with iTunes.
5) I want to see what's there on the device. Whoa, I can not. "That's impossible" I say, "I'm probably too confused with iTunes interface". I would understand if files were DRMed, but they weren't
6) I try copy pictures to the device. Some strange dialog saying "...ovewritten..." appears. Hooray, I've copied my pictures from the PC, now I can cleanse it from iTunes, haliluia!
7) Holy smoke, videos where deleted in the process. It cannot be,I say, how come, I can neither get stuff from my own device, nor put it there, from more than one source, are they nuts? I probably have missed something.
Act two, brainstorming with colleagues
1) The next day, I talk to my jobbsophile colleagues (I have quite a few), about the situation, asking how to make the damned iTunes thing copy my pictures, without overwriting my videos.
2) Shock and awe. We can't find a way to put stuff into damn thing or read it from there and start to look workarounds.
3) Colleagues from non-IT department start to explain, why this restriction is a good thing. I fail to grasp any of their arguments, but after being told that this is actually a good thing, I'm forced to believe it is. Colleagues from IT department don't say a word.
4) We've found workaround one, I copy all the stuff I want to either PC or notebook, put it into the device. Then burn a DVD with the stuff, so that mom could later add her own files, without losing everything. So fantastically comfortable, I can't believe it. But we have a solution, HALLELUJAH!
6)
"There is an app for that" Someone figures you could install some wireless app that woud (OMG OMG OMG) allow you to put and acces your own files on the device. Now who would dare to say this piece of... hardware isn't user fierndly?!?!?
Act three, The Walkman
1) I log into amazon site, to express my gratitude to Apple in general and Jobbs in particular. So that other users, who don't quite get it from the reviews (because bloody reviews do not mention these uninteresting details about how Apple cares about you and protects you from yourself and from the confusion freedom might cause)
2) I spot "Sony Walkman 828" device. Some unholy power takes control of my finger and I order it.
3) It arrives, I unpack it, very nice looking device, but it doesn't ask me to connect it. I'm shocked.
4) I connect it to my notebook. It identifies it. Shocked again, I'm desperately looking for a program to corrupt my notebook with. I can't find any. With trembling fingers (whether English speakers say so or not), I convert and copy my videos to the device. It works. I become very suspicious.
5) I connect Sony Walkman 828 to my PC. It again doesn't ask me to corrupt my PC with some program. Sinister. I copy images over to the device. It doesn't show my dialogs with "...overwrite...". How user unfriendly.
6) It supports folder structure. I start to smell sulfur...
6) Finally I give it to my mom. She says "oh, these headphones are much better than those from previous thingy". Obviously she doesn't have a clue.
Now, I'm still not sure that all that I've described is real. Every time I've heard "walkman" before, they were talking about ancient tape device, made by romans.
I suspect I've gone crazy and am typing this in my fantasies on imaginary notebook while sitting in a psychiatric hospital.
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Originally Posted by Halk
I agree with you on Apple, I won't give them a coin, but what happened with Anand and nVidia?
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Kinda offtopic: After "kind request" from nVidia, Anand "first refused" but then, because of some ridiculous reasons "on his own" decided to include overclocked, cherry picked, hardly available card from nVidia into review of new ATI cards running at stock clock. The fact that nvidia's card was overclocked wasn't even visible on most charts. Previously iPhone dissapeared from a number of side by side comparison shots, where it would look unfavourable (it was obvious from the charts, that it had inferior screen). When article's author was asked "why is iphone missing on those photos" answer was "oh, I've just forgotten it in my pocket".
After writing unfavorable article about nVidia card, Anand has once missed very important launch (they simply didn't get the cards) so I guess it "taught them a lesson". Marketing people simply tell reviewers what to do, on which features to focus and so on, nowadays it has become a norm...
