I hate itunes, ipod, iphone

[bhampton]

Hi,

I bet I'm in a minority with this notion but... I hate itunes, ipods, and iphone.

I'm in the process of getting my wife an ipod for her b-day because that's what she wants. So... I'm importing all our CD's and reading about the various versions of ipod and iphone.

And.. it's all pissing my off. Sorry to vent but I hate just about all of the icrap.

Why settle for high quality music reproduction from a CD when you can have a Craptastic highly compressed MP3 that you can listen to on your phone? Who needs HD when you plan to watch "widescreen" movies on a 3" LCD screen?

Seems all of it places connivence first and quality last. I love my macbook but I'm beginning to hate Apple for the effect the icrap is having on entertainment.

Either way... most people are going to be happy with ringtone quality audio and youtube quality video so I think the battle is lost before it begins. I just regret the direction it's going.

-Brian