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New They're getting worse
I had an older Ipod classic which was fairly intuitive to use and had a real hard disk in it. Construction was shit. The battery went bad. When I went to replace it, the case was difficult to open, the battery was glued to the back of the case, OVER the cheesy bands that they use for control wiring and prying the battery off the case broke the wiring. But while it was alive it worked fairly intuitively, and the documentation was both available and readable.

This piece of shit appears to skip songs in the playlist for no apparent reason, there is little rhyme or reason to getting around in the menus, the (online) "manual" keeps veering off to iPhones rather than Ipods. Getting it to do anything at all is a major victory. We've only got about $600 in a sound system for her Zumba class. Bose was nice enough to include a printed manual. Apple? You joke. They couldn't be bothered to fall at 9.8 m/sec2 in a standard gravitational field.

New Physical design was on purpose
You weren't supposed to open the case.
You weren't supposed to replace the battery.
Any internal wiring hacks were never to be exposed to the end user.
When it failed, you were supposed to replace the entire unit for additional Apple profit. Any observations based on doing exactly opposite what the designers intended are meaningless. Sorry.

BTW: I've despised all Apple interface choices from day 1, the original MAC, the iPod, and the iPhone. I spent quite a while trying, resetting my brain, making them my sole devices, etc. But I'm an outlier. I don't count. They work well for their target market.
     Apple Ipod sucks. - (hnick) - (17)
         Nothing about it is "intuitive". It's a learned skill. - (Another Scott) - (10)
             Finally got it. - (hnick) - (9)
                 You said it. - (pwhysall) - (8)
                     It's been a mix. - (hnick) - (6)
                         "iTunes sync Playlists" has 274,000 hits on Google. - (Another Scott) - (5)
                             There are 700M iDevice users - (pwhysall) - (4)
                                 They're getting worse - (hnick) - (1)
                                     Physical design was on purpose - (crazy)
                                 Heh. Only 50k hits for "TwbtyoLotD". ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                     I've had LotD for many years. - (folkert)
                     They don't have a 100% hit-rate, though. - (static)
         So you want to RTFM? :) - (a6l6e6x)
         Bluetooth. - (static)
         Are they different than iPhones now? - (malraux) - (3)
             I've seen people fail to see that icon... -NT - (static) - (2)
                 Not just in computers... - (pwhysall) - (1)
                     Hand out badges. - (static)

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