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iPod Classic Having Issues
September 14, 2007 |
Rumor is that the iPod Classic is having some issues:
- VERY Slow menu switching response
- Display of clock rather than song info when “Now Playing”
- Inability to use existing AUTHORIZED 3rd party dock products (including Apple-advertised)
- Audio skipping during operation
- Slow connection to Macs and PCs
- Inability to disable “split-screen” menus
- Lagging and unresponsive Click Wheel
- Camera connector not working
- Inability to use EQ settings without skipping and distortion
Apple better fix those things quickly before word spreads outside of the blogosphere. From that list of problems, it seems that either a) the firmware isn’y very efficient, or b) they tried to cram too much into an underpowered device. As for the lag of options, that seems rather typical of Apple. They will sell you the product just like his Steveness liked it and you want to be like Steve, right?
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My iPod classic skips music still after the 1.0.1 firmware update
my ipod classic is DOPE. i love it. so f*** all you idiots needlessly criticising a SOLID company. Go cuddle with Billy, cus Steve got it RIGHT on the classic. I have a 160GB Classic, with 90GB of music loaded, 2 GB of video, and I’ve had no problems whatsoever. Isn’t it typical, RUMORS of apple product being somehow inferior to bull**** competion. What? Would you recommend a zune? RUMOR. exactly, among the Bill Gates fan club who love to hate on Steve Jobs when he crushes you. You’re idiots, and i’m dissapointed this site came up so high up on google. Go play more video games.
My 160Gb iPod classic skips too, consisently. These songs worked fine on my 5.5G, so my take is the new classic wasn’t ready to ship. Stay with the 5.5G until Apple works out the kinks.
I use VISTA at work, I like it. I use my macbook on the street, on the bus, on the plane and I carry it on my backpack when I´m cycling to work. It is a tank. most Apple products are, and they are always clunky at the beginning on when newly released. Having the two companies compete is good for all of us.They deliver. Your bragging and bitching is also a necessity for both companies.
Maybe “Matchstick” was one of the very few lucky ones. Either that, or he’s a total d*ckhead and wants attention… but seriously… the iPod Classic WOULD be a solid device… if it would work out the few kinks. The most annoying one being the extremely slow menu response… People that have never owned a previous iPod may not notice the lag, but being a previous iPod user, I can honestly say that the speed of the menus is far from what the previous generations were. The other major pain in the butt is the lack of compatibility with previous “Approved” iPod docks… Before you purchase a new iPod, i would strongly suggest that you visit your nearest retailer and take one for a test drive, see what you think of the user interface… who knows, maybe they’ll have the issue fixed in no time! On that note.. Matchstick.. get a life and dont waste your time posting useless messages, you are welcomed to your opinions, but there is no need to be rude…
Yeah, I sure wish my iPod Classic was “dope” like my old iPod Video (until Apple bricked it with firmware release 1.2.3, that is). So far, December ‘07 has been a banner month for hardware not delivering as advertised. First, the Seagate FreeAgent I purchased didn’t work. At all. Now, the iPod Classic only half-ass works, but not the way I want it to. It won’t let me enable disk use and maintain that setting, so I can’t manually manage files or display photos. Plus, the thing is slower than shit even with Coverflow turned off; it also sometimes claims to be syncing, but is apparently doing so in the background without any rotating arrows to let me know something’s really going on.
I was so happy with the old iPod, so used to the ease and relative intuitiveness of use, that this thing ranks as the biggest disappointment of any tech purchase I have ever made. Worse, after the glowing review I just read of Apple’s in-store service last week, I also feel like their support is more sizzle than steak. Their phone support basically consists of ‘the 5 R’s’ and then it’s “return the iPod”. For what? Another buggy paperweight? No thanks. Apple better address these issues quickly. The iPod saved their asses once, but it could just as easily wipe them out if reliability tanks.