Oxygen Deprived iPod Hater?
October 26, 2006
Neal Mueller wrote a spectacularly inaccurate and totally ridiculous article which appeared in the Washington Post last Sunday.
Last year my team on Mount Everest witnessed firsthand how lousy the iPod is.
On our expedition, we brought enough electronic gadgetry to outfit an army. What broke first? The iPods. The batteries croaked, the cases scratched and the hard drives seized from the rarified air.
Ah yes, I forgot that all iPods are tested as working at 20,000 feet in subzero temperatures on a mountain and that other mp3 players in the market are indestructable.
He goes on to cite the muvo as being a superb device, that’s light, durable and sports an “open system”. He also seems to think the iPod will only work with it’s own music formats.
Surprising when you consider that firstly, the iPod is very light and secondly it works with just about any music format bar .wmv and a few others which are slightly more obscure.
The icing on the cake is when he says the iPod is a “flash-in-the-pan” despite being the portable music player of choice for 5 years and having an extremely good market share.
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Watching my fellow climbers lug their broken iPods up and down Mount Everest gave me some strong opinions.
Don’t be such a bloody drama queen! You don’t “lug” an iPod unless you’re some sort of weakling and if you are then what the hell are you doing climbing a mountain! I’m appalled that the Washington Post would even post an article like this… (not that I’m a regular reader)
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