Korean Job Discussion Forums

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Everybody's applauding Steve Jobs and Apple for coming out with the iPod like they invented penicillin. and they sure made a lot of cash. but did anyone notice that iPod's are shoddy pieces of sh*t?

maybe it's just my iPod and my friends' iPods. but mine never worked quite right and it just died last week. all that music that I bought (cough) erased forever.

and that's just a defective iPod. even if it doesn't break you still have to deal with the 2 year battery problem and iTunes, which some of the slowest, stupidest, software I've used in a while.

I mean, take some pride Apple! you guys were supposed to be the cool rebels who made the good products. and now for the first time everybody is using an Apple product and it's a total f*cking piece. I like the interface and all, that's cleverly made. but the chinese people who put the stuff together must be drunk, because it don't work right.

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

Never owned an ipod, but what exactly is your beef with iTunes? I find it an excellent and highly configurable media player. Really good for organising play lists under a number of catagories.

Billy Pilgrim · Joined: 08 Sep 2004

iTunes is great. The iPod, the juries still out, as my first one just died after trying an update on it. I wanted to buy a Sony as a replacement, but I couldn't find one in the whole of Seoul, so I decided to try an iPod again, mainly for the ease of iTunes. We'll see.

jg · Joined: 27 May 2003

I had some problems with my Ipod and the customer service, minor things, and after talking to others who'd had bad experiences I decided to sell it before the problems got worse - this was last summer. If you look on customer comment boards like Amazons, probelms seem to be common. I even bought and used mine in China, and still couldn't get any decent customer service, and the earbuds were garbabe, I suspect they were counterfeit. The customer service people were rude the few times they actually responded.

The next closest thing, the IRiver, seems to also have problems. My mom has one and hers will turn itself on, thus running down its battery. Sometimes it won't turn off. She has had it less than one year now.

I am afraid to buy another mp3 player, though I really want one. Dropping 200 - 300 US$ for something that might be busted after one year... I see that Samsung has a phone now that has mp3 capabilities and a nice screen, I might just get that. To be honest, Apple seems arrogant and despite their untouchable cute rep and high hipster factor, I don't think I could bring myself to buy another Ipod.

Why is the portable mp3 player market so anemic? You would think there'd be a lot more companies offering goodies. And does anyone have one of the new phones that has mp3 ability? The samsung I am looking at has 70 GB of storage and gets cool reviews, but I think its first generation and I have never owned a Samsung product before.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

couldn't pay me to own an ipod. I'm not interested in joing the cult of mac

johndoe · Joined: 29 Jun 2005

Billy Pilgrim · Joined: 08 Sep 2004

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

Billy Pilgrim · Joined: 08 Sep 2004

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Chinaski · Joined: 13 May 2006

Before I start this reply I should point out that I am one of those prementioned born-again Mac evangelists, however when it comes to ipods that's where I draw the line. I would much rather, and with a much clearer conscience, recommend Scientology (or any of those other equally crazy superstitions masquerading as religions, i.e. all of them) to a friend than an ipod.

Now itunes is a great program, its just a shame about the ipods themselves...being riddled with problems and short life-spans.

I'd hate to say anything vaguely pro-Korean on this web-site, as...well that's not really what this forum is about, but a couple of years ago i bought a 40 GB iriver (Korean brand), which is still going strong (and has outlived many a friends ipod). Going against my mac evangelist beliefs, I'd have to say at the time it was far superior to the ipod. I concede the ipods were better in some respects, however mostly superficial (i.e. a little smaller, look cooler, and have that fancy wheel thing).

I dont know if iriver has made any new models since then, or if apple have fixed the problems in the new generation ipods (which I doubt...but if they have, disregard the majority of this anti-ipod speel).

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

kermo · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:04 am Post subject:

I have always used Macs and I love 'em dearly (even if I don't always appreciate the ad campaigns. Gandhi for chrissake?) but I'll admit that the iPod I bought two years ago acted up regularly, like freezing up and also having power problems. I brought it in the first time, and they gave me a brand new one. That one started acting weird too, so I brought it in, and they replaced it again. I'm not using it these days, but I can't remember whether it's because it broke a third time or I just can't be bothered.

That was a few generations ago, so I am hoping they've worked out some of the kinks with the Shuffle, the Nano, the video one, etc.

Still... Up With Macs!
All Hail Lord Jobs!