apple

speaking of apple, the new OS is sweet. Anyone got it?

 

response to first sentence- i know.
response to second sentence- not always. every ipod i've ever dealt with every once in a while threatened to take its ball and go home if i didn't hold down the button exactly right.

 

Several times in the last month, my iPod will go dark when I hold down the play button, but as soon as I pick up my thumb, it turns back on. I basically have to restart it about three out of every four times I want to turn it off, and even that doesn't always work.

Plus, it locks up sometimes and won't play. Just freezes.

 

I've been using ipod since 2003 and never once have I lamented the absence of an on/off switch.

As for Apple as a whole: I'm a little bitter right now because my G4 iMac was rolling along just fine until the 10.4.10 software update. Now everything is slow. I think Apple did some tinkering to make older machines seem slower so people will go out and buy new hardware. I won't do it.

Delusional or appropriately cynical? It's a coin toss.

 

the iphone is absolutely phenomenal. Got one a month ago and am still amazed with it.

(Also, it has an off button).

 

Right there with all of you. I got an iPod Video last Christmas (06) and have had it lock up three or four times. The only way to fix that is to let the battery run down.

And when I press and hold "play" to turn it off, it's even money whether or not it's going to turn off or just keep on keepin' on. Frustrating.

They put a sliding lock/unlock button at the top. Why not a "press-and-hold" on/off switch on the other side?

It's built-in obselescence. Any device that depends upon you pressing down on a flat surface (which in turns presses down upon a circuit board) --- iPods, remote controls, microwave control panels, calculators --- wears out far faster than one that has moving, plastic or rubber buttons.

 

You stop making sense, right now Mr...

 

What bothers me is not so much the turning off ... it's the turning on. If you don't avoid that area while picking the IPod up, you can turn it on without knowing. And then it's wasting battery, and without any sound, you don't even know it.

 

Dude, that's what the hold switch is for.

 

Oh, yeah. The hold switch.

 

Not. Hold down the center button and MENU buttons simultaneously until the silver Apple logo appears on the screen.

 

My Shuffle's on-off switch works just fine.