Friday, December 3, 2010

emerging technology 3

So when I went to the wiki and looked at the list I couldn't believe that iTunes was a choice. So this will be my third and last emerging technology.

I hate apple products. I boycotted them the moment that the iPod came out. I don't follow trends and this was yet another example of the masses flocking to what commericals and other people tells everyone to buy.

I made sure that I would not go along with this and bought myself a mp3 player from a different company. I had some problems with it and it eventually broken, so I bought a second one. This one did the same thing as well.

I was reluctant to get an iPod becuause all my music was on my windows media player and I couldn't transfer it to iTunes very easily.

Sadly I was forced to get an iPod since all the other mp3 players were not realiable. I love my iPod and iTunes to go with it. I still don't have near the music that I did, but I get along just fine.

You can have playlists for anything imaginable, you can look up genres. And now they even have what is called genius that will find other music in your library that goes well with any song that you pick. I find this wonderful since I have a vast library with many different types of music and find it hard to search through everything to find all the same types of music.

The only downside to iTunes being that you cannot transfer music from any other device except an apple product unless you burn a CD. Also, you cannot transfer music unless it is on a CD or it is offered on iTunes. This does limit your choices and forces you to spend your money on apple verses any other company.

All in all, not everything can be perfect, but it gets the job done rather well.