Apple (does not) rule. Wake up fanboys!

So, my wife won an 1G iPod shuffle.

Great (I thought), I’ll copy some music on it and life will be grand.

Ha!

Nope. You have to have iTunes. Jobs (aka God) forbid you can just copy files onto it and have it work.

I’ve owned an USB mp3 player for years and it works just great. Plug it in, copy. done. But not “plug-and-play” Apple. More like “proprietary-DRM-and-play”. Ya, I know there are non-iTunes software out there than can copy the files up but you’re missing the point. You should be able to plug in to your USB port and copy files over without having to do anything special.

When will the Apple fan-boys wake up and realize this company isn’t what it’s cracked up to be?

But, on the plus side, it came with two nice little apple stickers. And much to my surprise, they do not use a propriety glue that only sticks to Macs. I now have a nice Apple sticker afixed to my garbage can…