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valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2011-09-23 07:29 pm
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much ado about ipods

Dear Apple,

For the love of God, could you make a product that has [a] a reasonable number of GBs (as opposed to a number of GBs that will accommodate only a thousand songs or something in the realm of fifty thousand) and [b] is not small enough to be a choking hazard? I understand that I can only have one or the other, so I have gone with a reasonably-priced touchscreen postage stamp that will happily play all my songs with some room to spare, but this is absurd.

Regards,
Aria

Anyway, just in time for a plane flight, Xander the iPod has finally given up the ghost. More or less. It should be unfrozen by morning, if past behavior is any indication, but it will never sync again, and it is becoming slowly, completely intractable. It's been a good five years, Xander. Or at least the first four were good.

...The iPod nano that I have ordered from the depths of the internet is a very pleasing shade of green and shall be called Loki. I am completely aware of the chaos I have called down upon myself, but whatever, it was my one ray of hilarity in this frustrating escapade, so, worth it.
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[personal profile] labellementeuse 2011-09-24 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
My ipod nano died early this year and it was pretty damn sad. I eventually went for a touch 32G to replace it because I have about 30G music and also, I can play plants vs zombies on it, so that's pretty great, but I have to say it's been a major shock to the system going from something with a 3, 4-day battery life to something that can sort of do 36 hours. (Not direct playback time, I mean 36 hours before I have to charge it.) Also, I miss the clickwheel intensely! I hope you like your new trickster baby :)