It totally wiped all of my purchases once my old ipod got replaced by an updated version, $300 of music, gone. Not cool. =[ Everything was organised into playlists, money was spent then i swich my ipod and plug it in. “enter email and password” “No itunes account registered to this email” “fuck you too”

Was so not happy =[

This is one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever seen. The list is so long, and I am too worn out to list the multitude of stupidities built into iTunes.

Why, because I hooked up my IPhone to my laptop because I’m away from home and my desktop iTunes…why is ALL MY STUFF GONE? What kind of a stupid system is this? Why can’t I’d ADD additional music from my laptop? I’m on the road, and I don’t want to wipe everything out on the iPhone. Why did it delete the TomTom app that is 1.4GB that I downloaded while at home. After hooking up to the laptop iTunes, the TomTom app is gone.

ITUNES SUCKS!!!!!!!

There is nothing at start up that the iPhone needs the computer for. Seriously, apart from firmware (which can be done OTA – see Android and S60) why do I need a computer to operate my phone?

Having a proxy in a country other than where you live isn’t that uncommon. Geo-IP location is not very accurate at the best of times. Even a “Wrong Country” click here would have saved a lot of my frustration.

I agree that a lack of options makes things simpler but if you take the N95 8GB, it only requires desktop tethering for firmware updates – you can do *absolutely* everything else without going anywhere near a computer.

What’s so fiddly about entering a credit card on the iPhone? With its great big gorgeous touch screen. No worse than having a to do it at a computer and just as secure.

The thing is, everything I did was a fiddle. Honestly, installing Ubuntu was quicker and less tricky and – at the end – it just worked!

….and breathe….

It got confused by your (pretty unusual) corporate internet setup. How many consumers will run into that?

It tethers to the Desktop in a way that S60 doesn’t. No OTA firmware upgrades, for example, and no Bluetooth syncing at all. The result is far less complexity and fiddly menus than an S60, and one settings app instead of half a dozen. Would you actually prefer to enter a credit card and billing address directly on the phone? Well, yes, I know YOU would, but really…

And the installer lacked a little superficial polish (but worked just fine). Anything that Syncs with Outlook needs to restart it – even Hotsync.

I’d suggest you try evaluating this as though you were the target market – people who don’t run Ubuntu, and who place a much higher value on not having to fiddle than on being able to fiddle. This thing is very popular – try working out why, instead of listing why ’tis the wrong device for you ;)

Nothing beat folders and XMMS… I miss my PC… I hate my Mac… ho well… thanks for this rant ! I’m happy to read that I’m not alone !