Apple...Oh how do I loathe thee.

I had a 3rd Gen iPod 20gb that recently took a turn for the worst. Yeah we had a good run there little buddy, but it's time to move on. Your smaller sibling the 4th Gen Nano will be keeping me company from now on on the subway, buses, and car.

But alas! What is this? I cannot charge you in my car! I connect you to my adapter and you tell me, "This device cannot be charged with this accessory", or something to this effect. This cannot be! I a very confused!

To the Apple support forums I go. ::read...read...read:: AH HA!! Apple Discussion Link (need to log in to view)

It would seem that your creator Apple (from here on out known as crapple) has dumped support for Firewire charging in the 4th Gen Nano, iPod classic (120 GB) and iPod touch (2nd generation).

ARRRGGHH!! I can just imagine how many people will be a bit put off, that's saying it lightly, when they plop their new 4th gen nano in their 3rd party vendor accessory and see the same message. Yes...ire will be amassed! Clocks? Docking Ports? Car chargers? all of which will need an adapter (this pre-release adapter will suffice for some).

And don't get me started with iTunes 8.0. I have a 2.4ghz P4 PC that is rendered to a 286 when loading, transferring music, downloading album art, and anything else for that matter. Once I shut down iTunes, my PC is back to normal.

I do think I will have to offload this nano to someone who will not look at it in disgust everytime I want to change songs.

Hmm...alternatives.... Zune? Archos? Creative Labs? Sure they won't have as many accessories and love that the sheeple give to crapple, but hey, at least I'll have a device that will cost less for comparable hardware, and have wi-fi, bluetooth, swapable batteries, and gasp...FM RADIO!!

It feels good to regain my individuality.