I got a brand new iPod from Apple and it is already broken. I never got it to sync, not even once. I’m fed up, and I’m cutting them off.
Let me rewind the story a little. I learned Ctrl-Q to quit from Mac applications before many of you knew what a computer was. My dad, an avid fan, raised us on the dreaded Apple. We wore his Apple t-shirts, we wrote in WordPerfect, and we followed the iLife before it even existed. I got to level 16 in Brickles, and would have gone even farther but my Dad said we had to go to bed. We beat Infotron and dominated Number Munchers.
Soon, though, I grew to hate that iLife, and convinced my old man to get me a PC when I turned 15. Windows ME pushed our overly-cute iMac out of the way in about 5 seconds. Eventually I outgrew ME and moved onto the great XP. Yet Apple remained a key facet of my life. My sister had an Apple desktop, and my Dad bought a new powerbook right around that time. So I kept up.
Then the Apple revolution catapulted the company back into my every day life. iTunes, iPods, and all things Mac started to take over my computer. Well, they’ve gone too far now. I’m taking this iPod apart because I think it will give me great pleasure. All that remains now is iTunes, which does not have long to live. I haven’t used it in a while, and I’m doing fine.
So Apple lost a customer, big whoop. Fine, but eventually, everyone will see that I was right, and that the big guy can’t always win.
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