iPods people just love 'em

People love their iPods!! Or if they don't have one, they crave one...

Of the hard drive digital music players they have something outrageous like 90% of the market and 40-something percent of the whole (HD and Flash Memory) market. Some numbers depend on how you measure (World, North America, US, etc.)

• 92% of the market says cNet
• 82% says Bloomberg
• iPod Lounge says dropped 5% to 87%, but the next place business is HP (who sells the HP branded iPod) with 3%.
• PCmag says dropped to 87% but the HP branded is 3% for a total of 90%

In a non-Apple-centric world they gotta be doing something right to get that much market share... Think about it, HP has second place because they are buying the Apple model and adding (note: not removing anything) an HP logo to the back (and probably not offering engraving).

Battery whiners aside (that it doesn't last long enough), it's pretty easy to get in the habit of charging them, just put the charger by your cell phone and voila! (or get a car charger, like your cell phone). It'll charge off your Firewire (and maybe USB) ports so it charges when you sync it with your songs (and it charges even if you don't sync).

Sorry to preach but I've just been reading snotty comments from people who obviously don't have one and who couldn't at least make a positive recommendation towards another one (or at least offer to sell the one they might have had “if” it wasn't any good). At least make a case that they're more expensive than others out there. There's a reason everyone in the world isn't driving the least expensive car, it has got the perks that the more expensive ones have.

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 10:14 PM on December 12, 2004.
Related categories: apple, music, portable, reviews
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It's been a year, what's changed (technologically and me)?

So it's been a year since I started this blog. I've typed hundreds of entries (I don't think I made the 500 mark yet). I've changed many parts of it:

the title several times (Something Nice Happened Today [dropped the nice for a while], If I blog in a Forest and No One Reads It, Do I Make Any Noise [a few variations of that, but it was to darn long, but it was kinda my favorite] and Let Me Make My Point(e) [with the E emphasizing my my name] and it was temporarily Do you See My Point(e)?)

Changed the background a few times and had a few psychedelic rotating ones, it's still a little busy but I work really hard to make it compatible in all browsers (and all screen resolutions) and if not there's a nice PDA version you can use.

My blog ReadRoll has grown and I've redone that a few different ways.

Added and changed some categories but it's still pretty close to the original.

Added the whole about section with lists stuff about me and what tools/plug-ins I use.

Redone the internals quite a bit, switched to PHP and a few other things.

Added some advertising to the sides and some ads here and there and maybe that'll pay off someday...

I'm passing over 5 GB of data a month. And I'm still not sure where it's going, I've disabled my photo albums so it's mostly just my content. I've even reduced the number of entries on my main page and it's still growing so at least I've got readers (and occasionally some commenters). Some people get really bent when they don't get comments, I'm okay without them, but it sure makes me happy when I get them...

I've tried to stay away from whining and complaining too much, but sometimes cars get broken into and sometimes people die and sometimes BK screws up my order so I need to vent a little. I'm about in the same place in life as a I was last year: single, childless and still looking to make those changes. (As much as people complain about it I'd rather be spending time this month assembling bicycles or cribs or whatever.)

Even though I created The Daily Meme I've become less of a meme-a-holic which I've been missing so I think I'll go back to those silly quizzes as a way to express things about myself...

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 11:01 PM on December 12, 2004.
Related categories: blogging, joan, me + myself + i
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