[geeks] fwd: The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod: UI

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Fri Nov 17 11:58:05 CST 2006


>From: kevin marshall <kevin at mpcf.com>
>Date: 2006/11/17 Fri AM 10:55:00 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] fwd: The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod: UI

>I'm not terribly impressed with the iPods UI. Over the past 20
>years i've owned/used 30+ Walkmans and/or MP3 players and the
>iPod is the first one where i had to read the manual to figure
>out how to turn the damn volume down. I consider this bad
>engineering.

Well, I stumbled on to that function very quickly (as I was in "wild monkey" mode with the interface when I first got my iPod... I think it's fine, and I was not aware there *is* a manual for the iPod...

Lionel



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