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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

A Weekend with the 4G iPod

Macworld: "I spent the weekend using the new fourth-generation iPod, and in addition to discovering a quirky new feature, I put the rest of the product through its paces ... Previously I used a third-generation iPod, and it's taken some time to get used to the click wheel and (especially) the act of physically clicking on the wheel and the center button. But it's also been a nostalgia trip, since the experience of using this new iPod is very much like the first two iPod generations. In fact, in some ways I view the third-generation iPod as an evolutionary dead-end. If you tried a second-generation iPod (a touch-wheel with the circular ring of buttons at the compass points) and then switched to a fourth-generation iPod, it would be a pretty seamless transition."

You know, I bitched and moaned about how lousy the 3rd generation iPod's capacitor-driven buttons and scroll wheel were, and everyone said I was crazy. And now the 4th generation iPod is out, and it does away completely with the capacitor-driven nonesense of the previous units, and now everyone is crowing about how much better it is. Sigh.

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