Steve Jobs is a perfectionist my behind.
I categorically state that I am the first person on the internet to ever point out these flaws. Go ahead. I dare you to find prior art.
(This is on Windows. I have the fat iPod nano.)
iPod nano charges when you plug it in. But there’s no indicator of battery percentage full anywhere. This is a feature that most electronic devices had back in 1990.
iPod touch: Rotation would be much faster without the crappy animation. Why is the animation crappy? Because it’s slow.
Does the iTunes store render each pixel rendered in a separate process? I’m on a 300 KB/s bandwidth here. I know it does not take seconds to do a fancy HTTP request especially when the song samples load instantaneously.
iTunes cannot detect duplicate items being dragged onto an iPod. FTP clients had this technology in 1998. You build a hash table. Do I need to show Apple how to build a hash table?
iPod syncing: Oops, I deleted all your music. Again, FTP clients perfected the user interface back in 1998.
Right-click a podcast episode. Click Show Description. Watch as MS Sans Serif rendered in a text box in a white window pops up. Aliased. When the bleeding stops, wonder why someone didn’t take the five seconds to think of a better way to read the podcast description. Maybe—maybe it could show up when you click “Properties,” like how every other media library does it.
Why are the edges sharp? Theory: Apple enjoys scraping people’s skin.
Why are the backs made of aluminum? Theory: America likes staring at smudgy, scratched metal covered with fingerprints.
Why can’t I mark files as Podcasts without resorting to metadata esoterica? There’s a separate window for podcast description but not this?