It’s an iPod Shuffle- my boss’ birthday present. Normally, I would just have bought him a Sandisk or Creative or [insert other brand] mp3 player, but he likes labels and he’s not very technically proficient. I figure the iTunes hand-holding stuff will be right up his alley.
Now, personally, I hate Apple. I have fond memories of the early Macs- I whiled away many an afternoon in boarding school playing Civilization once I figured out how to get around the network security protocols- but once I discovered Windows 95 it was pretty much game over for Apple with me.
Well, I’m not buying a Mac, and I don’t need an mp3 player*. What else have they got?
*I suppose I could hook one up to the aux jack on my car stereo and stop carting around my CDs, but if I was going to do that I’d just buy the one with the best price/capacity ratio, which presumably wouldn’t be an iPod.
FTR, I didn’t think Win95 was better than the Mac OS; how could it be? It was a blatant rip-off.
What was important about Windows 95 was that it made PCs usable, so I didn’t have to choose between a stable, intuitive operating platform, and owning a computer that actually had software available for it.