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Mostly overhauling the prices, but still:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6980451.stm

The iPod touch will be in shops by the end of September.

Said Mr Jobs: "It's one of the seven wonders of the world - it's just incredible."


What an arrogant son of a bitch.

I never bought an iPooed. Frankly, I never will. I prefer cd players.

IPods, meh. The next thing to unimpress you is the icar (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20502777/).

I like the I-rack

IPods, meh. The next thing to unimpress you is the icar (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20502777/).

Talk about milking your one product worth buying. Jebus.

An iPod is good if you're feeling the need to break something. I had a broken one on hand yesterday and it felt good to slam it against cement. It didn't break instantly, it took a few good smashes before the casing cracked open but still felt good nonetheless.

I love, love, love the iPod Touch (so sexy, so functional, so seemingly perfect) and would so already have ordered one... were it not for the pathetic storage capacity. 16 GB at the most? True, solid state, but would it have been so hard to have a hard drive version with the storage capacity of the iPod Classic and all the other features of the Touch?!

I guess I'll have to wait for the touch versions to get respectable storage, because the iPod Classic, while at a nice price for the size, just isn't as sexy as the Touch, and it's bloody obvious that the Classic line will eventually be phased out, perhaps even in the next "overhaul". Too bad, really...

I love, love, love the iPod Touch (so sexy, so functional, so seemingly perfect) and would so already have ordered one... were it not for the pathetic storage capacity. 16 GB at the most? True, solid state, but would it have been so hard to have a hard drive version with the storage capacity of the iPod Classic and all the other features of the Touch?!

I guess I'll have to wait for the touch versions to get respectable storage, because the iPod Classic, while at a nice price for the size, just isn't as sexy as the Touch, and it's bloody obvious that the Classic line will eventually be phased out, perhaps even in the next "overhaul". Too bad, really...

Do you work for apple or something?

I like the I-rack

come september, the i-rack will be declared a splendid success.

oh this IS september. ooooo the i-rack is a WIN!

Do you work for apple or something?

Are you really going to be such an obviously dismissible anti-Apple fanboy?

come september, the i-rack will be declared a splendid success.

oh this IS september. ooooo the i-rack is a WIN!

I don't want to talk about the i-rack anymore. Let me show you my new product, the i-ran.

Other than that I will manage a meh about the iPod itself and a STFU about Jobs and his over-enthusiasm. I know these things are paying your salary, but seventh wonder of the world? That's pushing it.

I love, love, love the iPod Touch (so sexy, so functional, so seemingly perfect) and would so already have ordered one... were it not for the pathetic storage capacity. 16 GB at the most? True, solid state, but would it have been so hard to have a hard drive version with the storage capacity of the iPod Classic and all the other features of the Touch?!

I guess I'll have to wait for the touch versions to get respectable storage, because the iPod Classic, while at a nice price for the size, just isn't as sexy as the Touch, and it's bloody obvious that the Classic line will eventually be phased out, perhaps even in the next "overhaul". Too bad, really...Neither sarcasm nor materialism are virtues - which is it?

Neither sarcasm nor materialism are virtues - which is it?

I don't give a fuck about "virtues".

I don't want to talk about the i-rack anymore. Let me show you my new product, the i-ran.

Other than that I will manage a meh about the iPod itself and a STFU about Jobs and his over-enthusiasm. I know these things are paying your salary, but seventh wonder of the world? That's pushing it.

hey, it works every time he gets up and says that some new I-device is the coolest thing since sliced bread. why wouldnt he keep doing it as long as people are willing to buy it?

and the I-ran is highly overrated. id prefer a much softer market.

I don't give a fuck about "virtues".You are desirous of weakness then?

You are desirous of weakness then?

You are wasting your time with this torpidity of yours.

I can hardly wait for the iLamp, iMicrowave, iVacuum, and the iRack to hold it all. ihear that Apple's even got a shoe in the works called the iRan.

Having garnered the idea that the Apple is tied to i-tunes and Apple related software etc in general, I avoided it like the plague, as I have music from multipe sources. I'd rather something I can just lash mp3s in that doesnt ask questions about where they're from.

hey, it works every time he gets up and says that some new I-device is the coolest thing since sliced bread. why wouldnt he keep doing it as long as people are willing to buy it?
True, there is that.

and the I-ran is highly overrated. id prefer a much softer market.

How about the.....eh.....*thinks* iHop?

iHate

I've very rarely ever had problems with iTunes refusing my music. And, the few times it has happened, I've just found other sources that iTunes accepts.

The iPod is nice because it has massive support everywhere. I don't give a damn how trendy or whatnot it is, it's useful and has tons of peripherals...that's what makes it better for me than other MP3 players. People need to pull their head out of their ass and stop the iPod hate.

I don't give a damn how trendy or whatnot it is,

Haven't you heard? Everything other people like sucks, and it's oh, so ironically trendy among certain sheeple to hate trendy things.

iChoke
iFat

Let's keep 'em coming.

It's so tempting to get the iPhone and a Macbook just to piss the Apple haters off when I read threads like this. :D

My screensaver will be of me giving Steve Jobs head.

iphones price dropped $200. Cant bitch about that.

Haven't you heard? Everything other people like sucks, and it's oh, so ironically trendy among certain sheeple to hate trendy things.
iRony
It's so tempting to get the iPhone and a Macbook just to piss the Apple haters off when I read threads like this. :D

My screensaver will be of me giving Steve Jobs head.

Careful about that, they might flip out and smash your stuff.

iChoke
iFat

Let's keep 'em coming.

A new Dominatrix named iPaddle is on the scene. She opened an iDungeon and has a favorite slave named iHurt who... bah - iJokes are iOld :p

iRony


Careful about that, they might flip out and smash your stuff.


Then I will sue them for iRaging against the iMachines.


my head hurts

A new Dominatrix named iPaddle is on the scene. She opened an iDungeon and has a favorite slave named iHurt who... bah - iJokes are iOld :p
Yeah...iHate them too.

iphones price dropped $200. Cant bitch about that.

If you weren't one of the suckers who bought it when it came out. The iPhone is still, even at the new price, functionally deficient though...

new Nano looks like a turd.

Then I will sue them for iRaging against the iMachines.


my head hurts

"Just got your iPod and other apple products wrecked by anti-apple fanboys? Then you need the iSue! Ruin their lives by making them spend thousands in legal costs! And that's before the big cash settlement.

Lawsuits not your thing? Try the iGun! Revenge is a dish best served with hot lead."

What an arrogant son of a bitch.
That should be Apple's slogan... for the past 10 years.

You are wasting your time with this torpidity of yours.Torpidity? You've spent too much time with a thesaurus in hand. Whereas I've simply spent too much of my waking time in classical political thought classes.

If you weren't one of the suckers who bought it when it came out. The iPhone is still, even at the new price, functionally deficient though...

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

There are so many better priced and more functional players out there, besides the iPod, and cellular phones that beat the crap out of the iPhone. The backbone of this entire enterprise is the stylish nature of it all, without that it's doomed.

It's so tempting to get the iPhone and a Macbook just to piss the Apple haters off when I read threads like this. :D

My screensaver will be of me giving Steve Jobs head.

The only reason I hate Apple is because Steve Jobs overprices everything. I might get an iMac if they were lower priced.

The only reason I hate Apple is because Steve Jobs overprices everything. I might get an iMac if they were lower priced.

Everything is overpriced because it is full of stubborn dickery.

I'm not touching any of these weird electronic gadgets unless they cost less than $100, and even then, probably not.

I barely use the digital audio player I already have anyway.

Torpidity? You've spent too much time with a thesaurus in hand.

I don't own an English thesaurus.

Whereas I've simply spent too much of my waking time in classical political thought classes.

No, you didn't.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

People still read Maddox?

Torpidity? You've spent too much time with a thesaurus in hand. Whereas I've simply spent too much of my waking time in classical political thought classes.

Nope. Fass is just that well-read and well-spoken. Not always well-mannered, but definitely the first two. ;)

I don't own an English thesaurus.

In the days of the Internet, that's no obstacle... except perhaps to literally having it in one's hand.

were it not for the pathetic storage capacity. 16 GB at the most? True, solid state, but would it have been so hard to have a hard drive version with the storage capacity of the iPod Classic and all the other features of the Touch?!


Stop ranting! My MP3-player has 16 Megabyte capacity (yes, it is an old one, one of the first which were available in Germany)!

In the days of the Internet, that's no obstacle... except perhaps to literally having it in one's hand.

I don't make use of them, then. Thesauri, not hands. Hands I make use of all the time. Nimble little things.

Stop ranting! My MP3-player has 16 Megabyte capacity (yes, it is an old one, one of the first which were available in Germany)!

Are you destitute or something? I think even people on social security can afford at least 1 GB players nowadays...

Everything is overpriced because it is full of stubborn dickery.

Eh, whatever.

Nope. Fass is just that well-read and well-spoken. Not always well-mannered, but definitely the first two. ;)

How congenial of you.

I dislike the iPod's control interface. That silly wheel is too imprecise. What was wrong with buttons?

Mostly overhauling the prices, but still:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6980451.stm



What an arrogant son of a bitch.

meh, i got a great mp3/mp4/wmv/wma/jpg/divx player for £120 (as opposed to the £199 in the article) with twice as much memory as that. i think it looks cool too in brushed aluminium (archos 404)

i wish the media would get it in their heads: ipod is nothing special. its a pretty looking (subjective, of course) gadget, of which there are a quadzillion alternatives which are usually cheaper, it wasn't the first mp3 or video player on the market, and its really nothing special. i don't see why the media give it so much attention. i guess the reason is because of its market share. which was itself won mostly due to... the media. its a big stupid cycle of mediocrity, irritating to those of us not in the ipod camp...

[/end obligatory irritated rant] :p

meh, i got a great mp3/mp4/wmv/wma/jpg/divx player for £120 (as opposed to the £199 in the article) with twice as much memory as that. i think it looks cool too in brushed aluminium (archos 404)


The Archos offerings are routinely impressive, if I were in the market for a new digital media player in that price range, they'd be my brand of choice.

I don't own an English thesaurus.Your point?

I don't make use of them, then. Thesauri, not hands. Hands I make use of all the time. Nimble little things.If you don't make use of thesauruses then perhaps you should make use of a dictionary instead. Your use of torpidity is completely misplaced. Can you imagine if you'd written 'you are wasting your time with this sluggishness of yours' or 'you are wasting your time with this numbness of yours'? And as for a perfectionist such as yourself I'm surprised you pluralised a Greek derived word as if it were from Latin.

It also seems the only time when you give a fuck about "virtues" are when people are flattering you. You are too easily flattered.

Nope. Fass is just that well-read and well-spoken. Not always well-mannered, but definitely the first two. ;)Well-spoken? You're either saying Fass was apt in his choice of words or that he was being courteous. Either way, screw you :p;)

Im perfectly happy with my iphone. I didnt have a cell phone nor an mp3 player previously and this did everything for me that i wanted. It also enabled me to receive sirius satellite as well. So it really did nicely fill all the needs i had.

Your point?

That you're not even full of it, because you lack the dimension.

If you don't make use of thesauruses then perhaps you should make use of a dictionary instead. Your use of torpidity is completely misplaced. Can you imagine if you'd written 'you are wasting your time with this sluggishness of yours' or 'you are wasting your time with this numbness of yours'?

Torpidity also means "dullness" in both the figurative as well as literal senses, pumpkin. Seems you're in more need of a dictionary than I, which is typical what with me recalling you're Anglophone...

And as for a perfectionist such as yourself I'm surprised you pluralised a Greek derived word as if it were from Latin.

English didn't get the word from Greek, it got it from Latin. Hence in English the Latin plural being used. If you're gonna try to argue etymology, next time know enough about it for it to be relevant.

It also seems the only time when you give a fuck about "virtues" are when people are flattering you.

No, I don't give a fuck about "virtues" then either. I whore myself out for flattery like a libertine.

You are too easily flattered.

You're just miffed that I have reason to be.

I love, love, love the iPod Touch (so sexy, so functional, so seemingly perfect) and would so already have ordered one... were it not for the pathetic storage capacity. 16 GB at the most? True, solid state, but would it have been so hard to have a hard drive version with the storage capacity of the iPod Classic and all the other features of the Touch?!

I guess I'll have to wait for the touch versions to get respectable storage, because the iPod Classic, while at a nice price for the size, just isn't as sexy as the Touch, and it's bloody obvious that the Classic line will eventually be phased out, perhaps even in the next "overhaul". Too bad, really...

Agreed. Although I don't need 80 or even 160 gigs, something more than 16 would be nice. Like 40. Allows my music collection to actually fit with room to grow.

That you're not even full of it, because you lack the dimension.And what is your second dimension? The ability to insult females as well as males?

Torpidity also means "dullness" in both the figurative as well as literal senses, pumpkin. Seems you're in more need of a dictionary than I, which is typical what with me recalling you're Anglophone...Nope. Whilst one meaning of dull is a synonym of torpid this does not mean that all meanings of dull are synonymous with torpid. Dull can mean slow or sluggish, as can torpid, but torpid does not mean what you claim it means. Your use of torpid is like me saying 'the torpidity of this knife is frustrating, it won't cut through anything'.

English didn't get the word from Greek, it got it from Latin. Hence in English the Latin plural being used. If you're gonna try to argue etymology, next time know enough about it for it to be relevant.I'm not saying your pluralisation is incorrect, I'm just saying it is a bastardisation which became acceptable.

Thesaurus is from a Greek root and should be pluralised by adding an 'es', despite being taken New Latin.

No, I don't give a fuck about "virtues" then either. I whore myself out for flattery like a libertine.Why? Why do you care so much about what others have to say about you? And you seem to revel in putting others down. Some might think you are extremely insecure about yourself. Not I though. I know that the confidence you exude goes right down to the core.

You're just miffed that I have reason to be.No, I just believe that to be flattered is to be manipulated. After all, flattery is excessive, insincere praise.