Mac fury

[Misterroberts]

AIBU to be consumed with fury over dd's non-functioning Christmas iPod? Plugged it into 3-year-old Mac with all of family's music on it only to be told that iPod would only work with iTunes 10 (our Mac has 9.something). Downloaded iTunes 10 ... Only to be told that iTunes 10 requires OSX 5 or better. My Mac has OSX 4.something or other. And of course it's impossible to download the requisite OS...to get it you need to buy a disc from the Apple store for £100 plus. Has anyone else had this experience? Must be thousands of people who got iPods for Christmas and couldn't make them work with macs older than three years. And to rub salt into the wounds apparently they work with older PC's. So Apple is effectively punishing its own loyalists. I know everything moves quicker these days but how can a £500 computer be obsolete in 3 years? MN Towers can we have a campaign against this kind of egregious bullying to consume?

sorry if you think I was BU for pointing it out, but yes, I do check the system requirements for just about everything I buy - MP3 player, satnav, phone, you name it.

I hope you do get it sorted out, as it must be irritating in the extreme.

When I bought an MP3 player (£40 worth of 8GB Sansa Clip. I didn't see the point in paying three times as much for a Nano just to get a prettier screen and shorter battery life) I didn't bother checking system requirements because I assumed that it would, you know, Just Work. After all, MP3 players have been around for a long time now.

And you know what? It did work. Out of the box. No upgrading of the operating system(!) required. It's worked fine with Amarok on Ubuntu Linux as well as various versions of Windows Media Player on both WinXP and Vista.

But, hey, if Apple's New! Shiny! is what you want and you're prepared to both pay the extortionate premium for that and realise that Apple's business plans require you to get fucked over every couple of years, go for it.

erm, I'm not sure that i've ever said I was an apple user... (I am, but literally only in the last few weeks)

I have always checked the likely system requirements for any gadget, precisely because, since I am usually working with Microsoft stuff, there is no guarantee that it will Just Work.

I have had to insert myself into the Apple world, as dd1 needed (yes, needed) first an itouch and then an ipad (she uses them as AAC devices - she has ASD)

I am now having to delve further fro app development, but hey, I have done more painful things in the name of helping dd1.

btw, the first MP3 I bought was a Sony. now &that* really screwed my computer up, and needed several updates, as well as a trip back to the shop and a factory reset to work. but yeah, it's only evil Apple that do stuff like that...

I really don't get all this Apple hate.

Choose the thing you want. If you feel like Apple stuff is about looks and 'shiney' and nothing more that, that's fine, if you think it's a rip-off, also fine. Choose something else, get a nice Dell or something for probably less than half the price. Why does it matter that something is 'overpriced' if you don't buy it.

I'm very happy with my choices.

I wouldn't call it "hate", more "boredom at being repeatedly told how radically different and genius-like Apple products are" when the reality is that they're not that special and it seems more likely that people are confusing expensive with high-quality.