DokiDoki98 said:
I don't think they're hating on Apple, I use a Zune, and right now, I'm typing on my APPLE MacBook.
They're are much better MP3 players on the market. like Zune. Only good iPod is the Touch 2G
STAY AWAY FROM SANSA, AND CREATIVE. VERY HIGH FAILURE RATE.
I had my Zen for 2 months, and my shaker, for 1.
Zune: almost over a year
Actually, a lot of Sansas has decent quality. I've had 2 sansas before. Both were E200 models. Also, the first one lasted a year before I had to sell it for money, and the second one, which I got later, is still alive after 4 months.
But Zens, on the other hand.... Are known to have lower quality than its competitors.
Also, for those who think Anythingbutipod is made for apple bashers, read this. It's writen by one of the creators of ABI.
" I write for anythingbutipod while also owning an ipod touch. Our site is too often misunderstood as a place for people who hate ipods, while in reality its a place to discuss players other than ipods. ilounge is for ipods, abi for non ipods. It's not any more a hate ipod site than a nokia site is a "hate sony ericsson" site.
I think that any decision to get a product should be based on objectiveness. That's why i never recommend anyone a player before they give a ceratin amount of features they want. It's physically impossible to say that one player is better than the other in general, you need feature requirements to narrow it all down. The touch i have is annoying in many aspects, itunes hangs and uses a lot of resources, it doesnt let me see folders etc etc. The sound quality is also not that great and the EQ and such lack compared to other players i have or have had. However, nothing beats it for me on podcasts, audio books and such. I hate doing all that manually which you have to do with other players, once you have trained itunes properly you start it up, wait until its finished downlaoding new stuff and hit syncronize. Itll remove stuff ive listened to or watched already and leave the new stuff. It's yet to fail on me and i love it for being that, so much that i forgive it for using up 200MB of ram and almsot hanging when syncing.
Objectiveness however isnt something most people do. Fanboys of a certain brand buy that brand for god knows what reasons. Ignorant peopel that dont bother to do some research buy the first thing they've heard about, which is why you get ignorant replies like "never heard of cowon, prob bad" and so on. Im still against people i know buying ipods, because they do it out of ignorance and not objective reasoning. I have no problem with people using ipods as long as they buying it was the result of research and not apple's marketing department imprinting the brand in their heads. The people i hate the most are people that reply to topics about what player is the best without there being any feature requirements. People's needs can be as specialized as having the ability to adjust pan/balance because one ear isnt functioning properly, and without knowing such needs up front one cant decide which player is the best. I'm sure there wouldnt be any bashing of anything if everyone chose players based on objectiveness not randomness."
