Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/14/06 06:46

RichardK wrote:
> 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.

But you can do that without iTunes.

> 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.

Only if you're some kind of idiot who doesn't have his music organized.

> 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.

And that was Panasonic. Jesus fuck, the non sequitur is like a crutch to
this man.

> 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).

Which is setting the bar very low.

> 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.

Apple knew that marketing and lock-ins work.

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