JayG tagged me on Facebook for an iPod exercise, basically seeing what shows up when you page through your playlist (pressing "Next" when in shuffle mode). Here's the problem: I don't have any music on my iPhone. And I can't find my iPod (one of the kids had it a year or two ago, and I don't know where it is).
The reason is that I run Ubuntu, and there's no way to sync the iPhone to it (well, now with Ubuntu 10.04 there is; I just haven't upgraded yet). I have a Mac laptop now that I'm at the new job, but it can't see my network drive, so I haven't downloaded my music. When it's a bit less busy, I'll get to it.
What's strange is that I get along just fine without an iPod or equivalent. I don't know if this is a Bad Thing for Apple or not, but I've been without their musical goodness for years now and simply don't miss it. I think that I bought 8 or 10 songs from iTunes a long time ago - so long ago that they didn't play even when I had an iPod, because they only gave you 5 authorizations for computers. With re-imaging on the Big Tech Company laptops, computer refreshes, etc, the DRM got to where I couldn't play them. I'm told that Apple can probably reset this for me, but it's not worth the bother.
It's funny, but I don't think of myself as a luddite, but I just don't miss not having this.
1 comment:
iPod?
I have an iPot! Couple of them!
iPod?
Is it like my iPot?
Luddite? Is that one of them there strange religions against technology?
Well I do have a record player! And my tapedeck!! With my bigassed amp and floor speakers!!
SO there!!
Marantz baby!!
iPod....hhmmmppfff...
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