[kj] OT: Fuck Apple

[Peter Moltesen]

Hmmm.....I've read a bit about the Cowons

I love the idea of a flac player - I back up all my digital music as flacs

 

The thing that really puts me off the Cowon is that it apparently dies if
you 

let the battery go flat and you have to send it off to get it revived again.


Sounds a bit (no - a LOT) clunky to me.

 

Pete

  

 

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From: Gathering [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Brian
Whitehead
Sent: 14 September 2014 20:11
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Fuck Apple

 

All my music is ripped to lossles flac so what I do is use an Sony Xperia
phone with a 32Gig SD card, some of them take a 64Gig card. I'm lucky enough
as my car has bluetooth to the stereo so I can listen to all my phone music
in the car. Another make of player you may want to look at, espacially if
you use flac or ogg etc is Cowon - they get great reviews.

Brian.

 

On 14 September 2014 18:01, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:

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I'm not gonna be a beta tester for a $400+ product that hasn't even streeted
yet. It looks and sounds promising, but the company has had a rocky start
(it's beginning to look like a money pit) and there's a lot of talk they are
having a hard time working out manufacturing bugs and it's going to miss
it's debut date of next month and has been pushed back to late Spring '15.
Me personally, I'm all for the concept (hi-rez audio options, storage is
expandable to over half a terabite, etc) except for the idiotic design - it
looks like a oversized Toblerone candy bar!

http://static.squarespace.com/static/53153220e4b085cb0661eead/53155ab0e4b008
916e69638a/53e3aa53e4b04de9fb8afb69/1407429206422/Three_Ponos_02_773.jpg?for
mat=1000w

I've been looking into the Fiio X5 which kind of already offers the same
features as the Pono except for far less storage and I'm not sure you can do
playlists. Problem is, it too is about $400 - I may as well buy an
overpriced 2nd iPod from an eBay seller. The iPod 160BG Classic really was a
bargain for the street price of around $240.00 (at least compared to
anything else on the market including Apple's other iPod line like the
Nano).  The iPod was so dominating in this market that most car
manufacturers have been building into their car stereo head units exclusive
Apple proprietary hardware and software that integrates seamlessly with an
iPod so you can control it from the car stereo or even the steering wheel.
Most home consumer audio receivers worth a fart also have iPod software
built-in for the same purpose.  The few other similar players out there
don't work nearly as elegantly.

Apple essentially wants users to migrate over to the new iPhone 6 with 128GB
worth of storage (vs the Classic's 160GB) for $850 - $950.

IMO, Apple is the leader in killing music and has been since day one.


T.B.

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