April 04, 2004
iPod too hard to use
I think this just proves we are doomed as a species:
...the iPod digital music player has confused so many thousands of new owners that the gadget has spawned its own service industry - to help technophobes download their own songs.
The article: news.independent.co.uk
Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology at Lancaster University, said the problem was that the iPod had become a fashion must-have, but that fashionistas tended to be technologically illiterate. "The irony is the people who can use it - the tecchies - are not in themselves very fashionable. But they buy it because they find the technology fascinating."
I would think the reason 'tecchies' buy iPods is because it's an incredibly useful device if you like listening to music? Maybe it's just me..
Posted April 04, 2004 10:17 AM in osx
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Comments
On April 4, 2004 01:32 PM Travis added:
My sister bought a Rio about 14 mo ago, a couple months after I got my iPod. They were comparable space-wise; the Rio was a bit cheaper. I was amazed when I finally saw it how /hard/ the interface was to figure out and use. Once I finally figured it out, I found it amazingly clumsy. It was also ssslloww. Playing music was fine, but skipping around to different songs was painful (compared to the expectations I'd developed from using my iPod).
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