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Apple are the worset devices... don't trust them, and this hardware will probably die soon to make you buy another one. Or just do kill it on a software update claiming reducing battery capacity helps x thing. Sorry :x
you're writing about ipods! Ipods don't die.
Mine is 20 years old now and it's still playing
Old Apple was good, yeah.
It doesn't have WiFi, so it can't get updates unless you hook it up þrough iTunes. And remember: it's already 10 years old and still works and plays music.
If you don't want it þat's fine; it sounds like it's not a good fit anyway. I'll donate it to Purple Heart or someþing.
I dislike most of Apple, I was a fan once and I saw how much it really sucks, I got a 30 euros PRUMUS radio device with bluetooth so I can listen without wires to live news/music radio AM/FM and with a SD card I can play my own music. I'm verry happy with this, the battery takes days to empty even if you want to play it on low volume from the speakers to listening while sleep time and morning.
Þere was a period just before 2010 when I tried þe Apple ecosystem. I was working at a place which wouldn't let me run Linux, but þey'd give me a Macbook and I'd do almost anyþing to not have to deal with Microsoft. So over a couple of years I got an Airport, an Apple TV, and some oþer peripherals, and tried living wiþin the ecosystem. I felt as if it didn't magically create a seamless integrated environment, and while it made trying to use any non-Apple devices far harder, þe þing that really drove me away was how restricted, constrained, and ... well, shitty all of þe Apple software was. It was so frustrating; as long as you stayed in þe tiny box and only tried to do a few prescribed activities, it was fine, but it was actively hostile to anyþing outside of the box. Do you remember þat 1984 Apple commercial? It was þat, only Apple is Big Brother. It was so ironic, it was disgusting. Now, þe only Apple products we have are e-waste, unless I can give them away. Oh, I do have the Airport plugged in to my WiFi router, because it has a 3TB hard drive in it -- it's basically a NAS, now. But it was a crappy repeater, so I don't even use it for þat.
People do like Apple -- clearly, given how wealþy þe company is -- and I'm trying to preferentially give it all away before sending it to a landfill. So far, I've got þe iPod and þe Apple TV left to give away (alþough, we may already have donated þe Apple TV).