APPLE !!! Bite me...

In my honest opinion Apple in their bloody quest to have a monopoly over the portable music player industry have made the installation and use of their player and software so cumbersome that it has left me frustrated to an extent where I have no wish what so ever to lay my hands on the slick looking black Nano lying on my desk.

The story started with my sister buying it for me on my birthday and thanks to a screwed up parcel service reached me a month late but i was happy that it had finally arrived. I plugged it in for a charge and everything seemed fine until the point of time that I felt the insatiable urge to listen to Dimmu bogir. Well i never used iTunes before so I had to download a 50mb setup file which refused to initialize because the earlier version of Quicktime; another apple application; refused to uninstall. Freaking mother of a baboon; I spent a better part of the night trying to figure out how exactly to go about uninstalling the Apple updater which was the cause of the whole mess. Well no luck there so i decided to download a compatible uploader called EPHpod which worked awesomely well. I was able to upload music onto this little cracker sized music box; elation- for the first time I felt a glimmer of hope light up my dark room, bloody fucking short lived it was.

I unplugged the ipod form the computer only to see that now it showed "No Music". Thank you EPHpod, you made my bloody day. Anyway it was late and I decided sleep was a better option.

Morning again... more like afternoon, not that it matters but still. The first thing i decided to do was call the Apple Helpdesk which was a complete waste of my time. The awesomely brilliant idiot who spoke to me told me to do what I had already done which was to try and purge all Apple files and programs form my computer.
Guess what... it still doesn't work. I go to the next best place for advice "ipod user forum", turns out there were more problems floating around rather than solutions.

Time for (lets see A... B ... C... D... Oh yeah E) Plan E, now I wish I had made plan E my plan B but you know what they say "Hindsight is the most perfect science in this world". Now back to my plan, very simple it was,
USE ANOTHER COMPUTER... So in comes my Dad's laptop, personally I hate laptops but here I had no choice, I decided to setup the iTunes software on his system and plug in the ipod for the file transfers.

Now being the idiot I am, I came up withe this brilliant idea of connecting the laptop to my computer with a cable which by itself made a mini network. Took me something around 20 minutes to set up the network and tweak the wireless a bit so that now both the systems had a sufficient bandwidth to work with. Here was the reason for the network; since I had already downloaded the iTunes setup files all I had to do was access it through the laptop and set it up... Simple, think you not, also that allowed for me to access all the files on the desktop including my precious precious music.

Hmmm, the setup took longer than expected, a good 15 minutes or so. With the setup done, I restarted the laptop , plugged in the ipod and viola, iTunes launched almost instantaneously.... JOY... this didn't last either.
The bloody software could not read the files already on the ipod. Pissing off. And as if Loki had to mock me,
enter Dad who looks at the weird setup and starts rattling about me messing around with his IP settings...Huh??? IP settings??? Where did that come from now??? It took a good 20 minutes to convince him that all his setting were left untouched.

A lunatic calm was now rising inside me, frustration and hopelessness were making them more and more comfortable just so as to tell you the state I currently am in. Thoughts about smashing the flashy little gadget against the wall and then running it over with the car felt like the most rational thing to do. Whack!!! whack!!! Slap myself back to reality... with the above thoughts still fresh in my mind and the need to just scream made me repack the ipod in its tiny case and keep it out of sight lest my feelings get the better of me.

Its not like i don't want to use, I really would love to but if loading a couple of tracks almost made me a raving maniac, I think I'd rather not... the free stickers that came along hardly make up for the all the shit.