Note: When I started writing this I abandoned the list format I was going to use and it rapidly turned into a morass, so I thought it should probably become several sensible posts instead. This first post has been returned to its conceived state: a simple list.
Part two of an ongoing series about how Apple's music products really annoy me.
I've only had an iPod for a few months, but that's been long enough to realise a few things about it, good and bad. My department's boss, Dan Hill, wrote a very good critique of the iPod's physical design, pointing out the disjunct between the appearance of impenetrable perfection and the reality of constrained manufactured product, and praised the adaptability of the software.
Ah, the joys of being an iPod owner. Lately my iPod has taken to hanging once every couple of days, requiring a menu/play-pause reset to bring it out of its sulk. It's also taken to bouts of extreme whimsy, jumping out of one album into another mid-song, often only managing one or two tracks before it leaps again.