boring tech post, please ignore.

18 April, 2008 – 6:09 pm

i was going to do a big “for and against” post for the iPod touch and n95, but in reality i just can’t be bothered to wade into that massive arguement, it’s not that i have anything against the iphone really, just that i don’t understand the hype around what appears to be quite a limited device…

i guess i’m in a relatively unique position having owned the nokia “flagship” device since december ‘07; the n95-8gb… and now that i managed to win an iPod touch last month i feel like i can write a more balanced post about them…

  • the touchscreen keyboard is pretty horrible to use and i can’t see it getting better because how is it ever going to know what you “meant to press”? tactile response is still more efficient.
  • the ipod touch is pretty big for something that’s going to spend the majority of it’s time in your pocket, i guess you could be watching movies on it… yes, i have been known to watch the odd daily show or robot chicken episode on my n95, but it’s not like either of those are filmed in high def or anything…
  • my n95 allows me to subscribe to and schedule the download of podcasts on the fly, over the air… the iPod wants to go to iTunes to do this, which to me, kinda defeats the purpose.

…but i guess that shows my limited ipod experience in general doesn’t; i don’t want to use iTunes, for anything, but it wants me to use it for everything… and well, nokia seem to encourage application development, but without the seemingly apple patented impenetrable field reality distorting marketing…

marketing the n95? case in point, have you seen this or this? add the fact that when you plug any standard usb cable in the phone, it pops up on any computer as a storage device so you can transfer music/images/videos, installing and using real GPS software on the n95 is a snap, and add a 5 megapixel camera with a decent lens… in the end the popularity and hype seems to boil down to a beauty competition.

people will say; “but it just works”, but somehow they forget, apple is just another evil corporation after their money… and everything is designed to be a closed system to keep them locked in and oblivious.

**sigh**

my next post about the iPod will detail how i can use it without having to jump through the iTunes hoops… look forward to it… :|





















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  1. 2 Responses to “boring tech post, please ignore.”

  2. Luke, you were right, that was fairly boring, lol!

    By Luci on Apr 19, 2008

  3. It’s been four days. Another interesting post, please.

    By Liz on Apr 22, 2008

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