iPods...

iPods.

Well I finally got one after all these years of denying them. But I needed a high capacity MP3 player to take away to Iraq with me, and iPod seem to be the only decent ones in the shops now.

Yes, they are well designed, look good and sound good, but the iTunes software is one of the biggest crimes to mankind since a certain mad Austrian decided he had a final solution to something, I forget which.

I first plugged the thing into a friend's computer. Thought I would load some of his music up to my iPod. All went well, had a nice little selection of music to listen to. And then when I finally got home, of course I had a go at loading up some of my own collection. Wow! No can do! Turns out you can have one or the other, either delete everything which I had taken from my friend's PC or have none of my own collection.

Isn't this whole syncing crap like the biggest flaw in the world? Also the software is very intrusive, doing it's own thing all time. YOU ARE A COMPUTER, YOU DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITHOUT ME TELLING YOU TO! And what's with the pop-ups? It's almost like spyware. NO! I do not want to download Safari, what the hell is this shit? I'm going to have to make do with it now, I've spent enough money on the thing.

Apple, fuck you!