Wow, this is some tacky looking crap. "Step right in ladies and gentlemen, and pick the best accessories for the little whores in your life." Not to offend anyone, but what's the fascination with this shining garbage? A few decades back was the rhinestones, now this ...
Message to Sony: Instead of looking for ways to make your products more and more silly looking, how about just making them more compatible and easier to use. Instead of forcing people to use your clumsy SonicStage (I think that was the name of it), offer them the ability to just drop the files into a folder and done. Or, make it compatible with MS Windows Media Player and/or WinAmp.
I'm surprised we haven't been hit with a "Hello Kitty" version. Maybe Sony doesn't want to pay Sanrio for licensing. But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's already been released "in Japan only."
Jon, I'm not saying that Sony doesn't put out good things. They do. The problem is that they lock their products to their own software, which if it were good it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that a lot of people have issues with SonicStage, myself included. I have plenty of Sony and Apple products in my house. I have a number of iPods that work well for me, including the very one you complain about; U2. Although I only use iTunes to encode, and transfer music to my iPod, in general terms the program works well. I have stopped myself from buying, otherwise great products, because of Sony's insistence in making people use their buggy program. That's why I love the PSP and PS3; one can just drag and drop their files onto the system and you're done. That's what everyone is looking for from Sony.
I agree with you, Sony is not perfect, and neither is MS nor Apple. But Apple and MS have put out, and force you to use, programs that at least work well with their products.
Once Sony stops this forceful use of their software on consumers, and decides to go with drag and drop or use other popular programs that work well too, then things will change. Again, I like Sony products as much as the next guy, but SonicStage is an awful program full of bugs.
"ipod: no drag and drop ipod: has ugly u2, madonna etc. based special editions where you pay extra for colour schemes"
Oh god, another tedious and obsessive ipod complainer.
"And yet no one complains..."
You just did. You're being overdramtic. This thread is about a Sony product, yet here you are moaning about the ipod. Enough people complain about the ipod, just google, but for some reason you're pretending to be completely unaware. Why?
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Wow, this is some tacky looking crap.
"Step right in ladies and gentlemen, and pick the best accessories for the little whores in your life." Not to offend anyone, but what's the fascination with this shining garbage? A few decades back was the rhinestones, now this ...
Message to Sony:
Instead of looking for ways to make your products more and more silly looking, how about just making them more compatible and easier to use. Instead of forcing people to use your clumsy SonicStage (I think that was the name of it), offer them the ability to just drop the files into a folder and done. Or, make it compatible with MS Windows Media Player and/or WinAmp.
I'm surprised we haven't been hit with a "Hello Kitty" version. Maybe Sony doesn't want to pay Sanrio for licensing. But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's already been released "in Japan only."
Let's see...
ipod: no drag and drop
ipod: has ugly u2, madonna etc. based special editions where you pay extra for colour schemes
And yet no one complains...
Jon, I'm not saying that Sony doesn't put out good things. They do. The problem is that they lock their products to their own software, which if it were good it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that a lot of people have issues with SonicStage, myself included. I have plenty of Sony and Apple products in my house. I have a number of iPods that work well for me, including the very one you complain about; U2. Although I only use iTunes to encode, and transfer music to my iPod, in general terms the program works well. I have stopped myself from buying, otherwise great products, because of Sony's insistence in making people use their buggy program. That's why I love the PSP and PS3; one can just drag and drop their files onto the system and you're done. That's what everyone is looking for from Sony.
I agree with you, Sony is not perfect, and neither is MS nor Apple. But Apple and MS have put out, and force you to use, programs that at least work well with their products.
Once Sony stops this forceful use of their software on consumers, and decides to go with drag and drop or use other popular programs that work well too, then things will change. Again, I like Sony products as much as the next guy, but SonicStage is an awful program full of bugs.
"ipod: no drag and drop
ipod: has ugly u2, madonna etc. based special editions where you pay extra for colour schemes"
Oh god, another tedious and obsessive ipod complainer.
"And yet no one complains..."
You just did. You're being overdramtic. This thread is about a Sony product, yet here you are moaning about the ipod. Enough people complain about the ipod, just google, but for some reason you're pretending to be completely unaware. Why?