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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
By "just work" do you mean I should be able to just copy some files onto an SD card and go?
Oh, you mean, install a specific program for that piece of hardware, use it to organize and sync your library. Ugh. I hate itunes.
In my mind, drop files onto SD card or device = "just want it to to work" or "work coming out of the box".
It only "just works" if you're happy with itunes as the ultimate in music and video management, and like buying your content from itunes, and willing to put up with requiring a computer/itunes/sync to load content.
Dinking around with itunes (I'd rather use MediaMonkey), updating itunes, un-associating filetypes from itunes (and quicktime) when I install it, and using a big program to sync when all I want to really do is drop a few files onto the device and roll...that's the opposite of "just work" in my book.
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(Shrug)
Everbody's experience is different.
My experience is that the SD card DIDN"t work with my Android smartphone, despite hours of dinking around with it (and swearing at it). There was NO tech support.
I've bought only a few tunes from Apple-a very smooth experience, I might add. Most of my music I had before I bought my iPad. I ripped the CDs into Itunes, plugged in my Ipad , and it synched automagically onto my device. Didn't have to deal with cryptic commands, create Music folders, invent an organizational sytem, or anything. A couple minutes later, I was ready to go. Never had to call Apple tech support, never had to trawl the forums for advice, never had to tinker with the device whatsover except to change wallpapers and do a reset now and again. Malware? Not my problem. Shopping for apps? Great experience-1,000 per cent better than Google Market. Apps-more apps, better apps. (There's an app for just about anything in the App Store-you may have heard
).
I could goon, but why pile on...