ipod: fuck you i love you

I'll admit it. I am one of them. I too have those little white earpieces shoved into the sides of my head. Yes, I own an ipod. I am sorry but I love my ipod. I don't care that practically every student on my campus is dawning the trademark white headphones. My ipod is fucking handy! Imagine, a whole musical library stored into a tiny lightweight case. Even it's appearance is very becoming. I don't care that it costs $300. Even if it wasn't given to me for Christmas, I still would have bought it. I love my ipod!

Of course that doesn't mean I don't have a few beefs with the ipod. The ipod is kind of evil in a way. The fuckers at Apple still managed to find a way to make life difficult for you and your glorious ipod. You pay $300 for the thing and they give you the program to install itunes onto your computer if you don't have it already. Fair enough. The only thing is, you have to have Windows XP. Technologically outdated people like myself then find themselves up a creek without a paddle. That means all the goddamn music stored on my computer is useless, because I don't have Windows XP and Windows millennium just isn't good enough. Luckily, I have a friend who also has an ipod and thus, already has an itunes program installed on her computer. So I thought I would just mosey on over and copy what she had onto my ipod, although my ipod was given to me with a good amount of music in it already, from another music library. I merely wanted to add more music to it, which isn't really a ludicrous concept. Well it turns out that in the process of adding the music from my friend's itunes library, all the music I had on my ipod prior to that was erased. Fuck beans.

You cannot imagine my devastation when I discovered that 2,000+ songs had been erased from my ipod. Do you know how long it takes to upload that stuff? It's no quick task; that was precious invested time. How stupid is it that you can't copy songs from multiple music libraries? No fair I tell you! At the price paid for the ipod, one should be able to upload music from any itunes library. Piracy shmiracy. Free music downloads are alive and well, why don't they just accept it? And even so, there's nothing free about the itunes music library, so why not create software that allows viable access to multiple libraries? How cool would it be for ipod users to have the ability to share music amongst each other? What's the big deal anyhow, it's not like Apple would be losing money. They've made so much money already. Honestly, the consumer is not going to buy multiple ipods so they can upload music from multiple sources. I'd like to think that no one is that stupidly excessive. Inaccessibility to anyone's itunes library but your own: It's a bloody outrage.

Aside from the whole cockamaimy piracy prevention issue, life post-ipod attainment is great. I'm addicted to the damn thing, I take it everywhere. Even though the program designers at Apple are bastards for not letting us share music, I'm still glad I have an ipod. Like a parent would their screwed up child, I just can't help but love it.