[geeks] AAPL > IBM

[N. Miller]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Mike Meredith wrote:

>
> There isn't a power button on an iPod? I didn't run with the standard
> firmware long enough to remember but Rockbox allows you to turn it  
> off.

Not really, you can make it "sleep". Sometimes they crash here if you  
paused in the middle of a song and leave it "sleeping" for a long  
time, so it might as well be off.  I guess no off switch is the trade  
off vs. using a big chuck of flash to speed "boot" time, which would  
increase the cost.

It doesn't really bother me that it doesn't have an "off" switch, but  
I guess some might have different preferences.  My biggest beef is  
that I can't "shuffle" a single playlist on the iPod once it's  
there.  Or, at least, I haven't figured out how to do it.  For the  
most part, like the Mac, they "just work".

I have rather more beefs with iTunes.

=Nadine=