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..
Comments
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).
Posted by: Travis | April 4, 2004 01:32 PM