Posted by RichardK on 06/13/06 08:28

NRen2k5 wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
>> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Mainly because I have to deal with them day in day out. You don't
>>>> get it.
>>>> Most PC/Mac users have the curiousity of a goldfish
>>>
>>> So then why do you make them use software when they can do the most
>>> direct, logical thing, which is drag-and-drop?
>>
>>
>> Drag and drop? Are you insane? Ok, it works for very basic stuff but as
>> soon as you want to use playlists or even dictate the play order as a
>> whole then you're into creating folders, renaming files ("01-Hurry On
>> Sundown.mp3","02-Living On A Knife Edge.mp3","03-Chronicles") etc. Drag
>> and drop is almost the worst way of doing this.
>
>
> But when the player is drag and drop, you organize things and use
> playlists any way you want.

But, you can do that in iTunes, without having to mess around, with
playlists, albums and indivudual songs, to load up 3rd party MP3
players, burn MP3 CDs, and load onto iPod.

iTunes is better. Unless you're only used to piddling devices that only
hold 150 songs or so, drag and drop is tedious and chaotic.

My first MP3 player was a Panasonic SV-SD75, in 2001, I forget. It
was... comical. It had an SD card of 64Mb capacity. Looked like a watch.
Cost loads (I was given it as a present, but it was £248/$349 in 2001,
for an hour of playback). Had to use the AWFUL RealJukebox to load files
onto it. Protected EVERY file you put on it.

The 1st Gen iPod came out in 2001, too. 5GB storage. MP3/AAC playback.
$399. iTunes (which was better and easier to use than Real Jukebox).

Is it really that hard to grasp WHY Apple dominates this market? All the
industry analysis said "iPods are too expensive", but Apple knew that
music is important to people; make it easy and useful, and they'll buy
it, and people did.

Richard

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