[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Just went to a local shop, literally a minute or two ago and almost got run over by two male cyclists.

Here is the entire and exact word exchange between us.

one of them ( in angry shouty voice ): 'watch where you're going you blind cunt!'

Me ( loud voice ): Get some lights you ignorant pricks!

Seeing as there were two of them I'm glad ( in retrospect ) that they didn't stop.

Has the Tour of Britain reached Bristol already?

That time of the year to throw nails on the road again is it?

You're my new hero. I always stand there looking confused when people yell something rude at me, and a few minutes later when they're long gone I come up with the perfect comeback. It can be very frustrating being me sometimes.

Peter

Apple is discontinuing the Ipod Classic.

I know streaming and flash is all the rage, but it was the ONLY music player out there that could hold enough of my humongous, highly eclectic collection. So if and when my current iPod gives up the ghost, I actually have to downgrade!

And don't give me that "but everything is in the cloud" malarkey. That is absolutely useless when abroad -unless you're a millionaire who doesn't mind thousands of dollars roaming costs- or for eight hours on a boat or plane or so.

Used to be that I brought dozens of cassette tapes with me on such occasions, many aeons ago.
I guess my only alternative for the future is to bring three or four iPod Touch thingies.

I'm annoyed that Apple have gone the way of making HUGE phones.

They really bloody should! It's a ridiculously sized phone.

I expect there to be a proper alternative!
It's like phasing out the old light bulb all over again: it took years for a reasonable, working alternative to come along.

Sorry to hear that. I'm with you, and I "only" have a 120 GB iPod Classic as opposed to your 160 GB (if memory serves). It could hold my entire collection up untill a few months ago, when my collection superseded that size.

In either case, I'm holding on to mine for as long as I can, even if people will point at me and tell me how dated I am (I already have that with my ancient Nokia cell phone which isn't even a smart phone).

Sadly Creative also discontinued their hard-drive player.

True. Sadly the iPhone NOW is already 600 Euros, while the iPod Classic went for 250 Euros.
So that's gonna be one hell of an expensive replacement.

EDIT: and there the solution presents itself: long-term value!
I expect an iPhone with 256 GB to come in at about 800 Euros.
...so I'm buying three replacement Classics NOW while they're still available!

Yes, this is an absolute nightmare for me as well. Although I am getting near to the 160GB limit on my iPod Classic and will welcome any large-capacity media player, the thought of being unable to get a replacement for my current player when it dies is annoying.

Either I am going to have to downsize to a smaller-capacity device - and therefore review all my favourite tracks on my current device - or have several devices with my current playlist spread over the 3-4 smaller players. This latter option is a non-starter: what I like about having the one device is that I have all the tracks I want to choose from available to me for when my "random" choice is made. If I have the tracks spread over 3-4 devices I then lose the option to potentially listen to all my tracks - I have to choose a set and play random tracks from that single subset. Not what I want to be able to do.

One thing I am curious about is whether the iPod Classic someone was selling yesterday at $X is now being sold today for $(X + scarcity premium)?

Aw, crap. I had just decided to get one of these for Christmas, as I'm nearing the ceiling of my 16gb iPhone (and that's just my 4-5-star cues playlist that's on there). Might have to get it a little earlier now, and I don't know if I can afford it at the moment.

Apple Schmapple. Overhyped and overpriced junk that everybody runs to throw money at. Gone is the elitism of the past. I find android devices (huawei, samsung, lg, google nexus etc) to be much more of value for money, customization, quality (especially the more expensive models which also outshame the apple products specs-wise).

No, just in the UK.