Pretty much sums up Apple. "Our customers will buy any old shit so we'll save a couple of quid by not including 3G even though it has only been out half a decade. Oh, and we'll save another few quid by having a shitty camera with no movie capture ability, unlike every other camera phone. And because we know we can really get away with murder, we'll not bother putting in copy and paste even though there's a document editor in."
61 MB of RAM (out of 3GB). The processor usage doesn't figure on the scale. 256Kb AAC from the iTunes store. Lossless from the CDs I've ripped. Sound quality is perfectly good and of audiophile quality if Apple lossless is used. It's certainly far better quality than any other player provides. I don't use VBR and note some people have complained about Apple's implementation of VBR. All I can say is that every version from every software supplier that I have listened to sounds shit no matter what platform the VBR files were created or played back on. CBR files sound perfectly fine.
I've ripped my own CDs and transferred MP3s (now there's a shit file format with poor sound quality). They are stored alongside the music purchased from the store. iTunes downloads the cover art, obtains track info from Gracenote and organises music into folders by Artist and Album. It honours ID3 and ID4 tags and stores extra information in XML files.
Supports MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC and Apple Lossless, it can play any format supported by QuickTime including WMA, FLAC and OGG. There are no attempts to "lock the file format down".
Never crashed or hesitated even once and I've been using it for years across both PC and Mac. I have over 160GB of music stored in iTunes and use it on a daily basis.
You also forgot to mention that iTunes software is free to use and supports music sharing across the network, and that Microsoft's offering Media Player is utter shit.
I suggest that Charlie must have a muffled voice when sitting down.
Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahaa.......
Thus spake the man who has read a spec sheet and never used an iPhone.
No, go on, this is going to be fascinating.
Detail the relationship between Microsoft and CP/M. I insist.
The BASIC shipped with the Altair was the only product MS had at the time. In the end they fell lucky and sold the rights for MS-BASIC for a bit more than $51,000.
Please feel free to post links to evidence showing that you are right.
I've used a lot of media managers, and yet I return to iTunes for tagging, playlisting and generally messing about with my iPod. I've got Sharepod as well for stuff itunes doesn't do but iTunes is actually good for managing iPods. Plus I rip apple lossless..
I was a bit behind you, couple of years after that I got a ZX80..
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:31:40 +0100, Conor spouted forth:
Really? I thought CP/M came from Digital Research? AFAIK M$ didn't have anything to do with it. We had a weird comptuer called a Laser 3000 when I was a kid in Hong Kong. It was essentially a (bad) Apple II clone with
64k RAM and an extra Z80 card in it. I used to boot from CP/M disks and program it to draw pretty picturesMike P
iTunes is easy. It's the only thing I miss about Windows. Banshee does a reasonable job, but the Podcast bit is currently not working as expected.
If you're using if for audio files you already have (I'd never rip a CD with iTunes, or buy music from their shop thing), it's easy enough.
The camera on my Touch Diamond is pretty s**te. Actually it's the lack of a flash I'm complaining about, the camera is reasonable.
I won't have iTunes anywhere near my computer. iTunes is Satans own media thing. I cannot abide it.
For me, Winamp is pretty much spot on. Free, easy to use, reliable, and 'just works'.
I think Charlie Brooker sums it up perfectly.
"I hate Macs Comments (847)
Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance. While I don't have anything against shameless promotion per se (after all, within these very brackets I'm promoting my own BBC4 show, which starts tonight at 10pm), there is something infuriating about this particular blitz. In the ads, Webb plays a Mac while Mitchell adopts the mantle of a PC. We know this because they say so right at the start of the ad.
"Hello, I'm a Mac," says Webb.
"And I'm a PC," adds Mitchell.
They then perform a small comic vignette aimed at highlighting the differences between the two computers. So in one, the PC has a "nasty virus" that makes him sneeze like a plague victim; in another, he keeps freezing up and having to reboot. This is a subtle way of saying PCs are unreliable. Mitchell, incidentally, is wearing a nerdy, conservative suit throughout, while Webb is dressed in laid-back contemporary casual wear. This is a subtle way of saying Macs are cool.
The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign - the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They are a logical choice in one sense (everyone likes them), but a curious choice in another, since they are best known for the television series Peep Show - probably the best sitcom of the past five years - in which Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur. So when you see the ads, you think, "PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers." In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign.
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.
Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are."
I had a ZX81, then a VIC 20...
Soon moved on to the Spectrum. I loved the Spectrum.
Same here - I use Ace Media Player (with the DivX codecs installed separately) for videos, Winamp for mp3s, and iTunes for podcasts. Comes from previously having a machine that struggled with iTunes but just about managed. Winamp struggled for videos so I happened across Ace. Just checked and this machine works fine with videos on Winamp, but I'll still use Ace, just as I'll still use Winamp for mp3. Though Spotify is quite nifty too (albeit different to the others).
Superb. I've only just discovered him and his Screenwipe shows, and they're bloody brilliant. Love his style of wit and sarcasm.
Poor sound quality? I must admit I can't tell ALC from FLAC...
My only gripes with iTunes are the lack of album art and the way it organises albums. Apart from that and wanting to install Bonjour without my permission, it's not too bad.
So you're telling me the MK1 has 3G, the camera takes movies and had copy and paste from the start?
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