[Sigia-l] Amazon.com 99% bad!

[Alexander Johannesen]

Hi,

Scott Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com> wrote:
> Flickr, in my view, suffers from much more than that. The best thing
> about Flickr is the fact that you don't need a browser to upload
> photos - they built an app. I could conceivably use it without ever
> touching

Hmmm, I really like Flickr and I upload through my browser, so the
things I like about it is a) tagging (with and without sematic worts),
b) social aspects such as feedback, comments, contact, and c) it's got
lots of pictures in it that are *easy* to get to. Simplicity. They are
making it somewhat harder to fly through it all these days, sure, but
I find that the biggest thing they struggle with right now is
performance.

> > After all why does the ipod out sell far more sophisticated MP3
> > players? It doesnt even have a radio.
> 
> Because the whole point of me being able to carry 20GB of MY music
> with me is I don't WANT a radio? I am a radio station when I use my
> iPod.

Wait, hang on, some people prefer both. MY music is selected by me but
people who aren't stubborn in their ways ('I only want to listen to MY
music') sometimes wish to hear what's out there, as in radio. :) And,
given the fact that implementing a radio in devices these days are so
simple, it *is* odd the radio isn't in the iPod. I, for example,
didn't go iPod *because* it didn't have a radio; I want to record
snippets of radio because there is some music played on radio I can't
get to easily, such as the 1610 Vespers by Monteverdi, performed by
Bern Collegium, out of print and not online but sitting in the ABC
Classic vault. I'm sure I'm not a special case in wanting a radio, for
whatever purpose.

I feel more that the success formulae is a) trust in Apple, b)
simplicity of use, c) reasonable power and integration and d) fair
price.

> Or, because in this case the interface DOES make a device more
> usable. I've sold, and used, the Creative Labs products. I'd call
> their interfaces clunky and difficult to use in comparison, but my
> mother taught me to be honest: they're crap. They make it very
> difficult to navigate through even a moderately sized library.

Again, given the fact that I own one (Nomad Jukebox Zen, one of the
earlier ones) with a radio and also an iPod, I can say that Creative
isn't as bad as you make it. I've got quite a reasonable collection of
some rather complex structure that the iPod *sucks* at but where the
Nomad really helps me find what I'm after, fast. It comes down to how
the metadata for your MP3's are done. Here's an example;

   Monteverdi : Selva Morale et Spirituale : A Sei Voci
   Monteverdi : Selva Morale et Spirituale : Disc 1 : Cantus Koln

First is a selection from the work, performed by A Sei Voci (1 disc),
second is the first disc (of 3) of the complete work performed by
Cantus Koln. Imagine now that I have about 10 different manifestations
of this work, devisions not included (such as broken into several
discs). This type of material actually is simpler to browse through on
the Nomad than on the iPod.

What's my point? Crap to you is gold to me, so don't be so harsh.


Regards,

Alex
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