i-Gadgets Rant, ipad, phones Macs and more RANT

There are two very different groups out there and an ever emerging third sneaking up closely behind... that 's a split between people and their desired Operating Systems OS.  You have your die hard Windows and and they your "Apple fanboys" as they are called, and lastly the Linux Lovers, I fall into two of those categories.  I am a huge fan of Linux, a lesser known OS with many different versions and the best is it's FREE.  My next of course is Windows, I was born and raised on Microsoft PCs.  I guess that leaves me with the devices I would like to complain about... APPLES!

Think Different, like so different we can't figure it out!

I own a couple of Apples products, not because I bought them... Because another family member bought them, because frustrated and gave them to me.  I'm the computer tech after all and I should know how these things work.  Well I don't! I will tell you that I see a very trendy, over priced, complicated piece of equipment with a complicated method of performing tasks.  Let me give you a real example.

I am the owner of an , this item cost about $299 retail when purchased new.  I can remember when my daughter now 14 had to have this thing.  So dad being the kind guy he is, went out and bought it for her.  Never once has anyone in the family ever had any music on the device because that is a F*(&ing impossible task.  I have tried and yes, I can follow instructions and many, however, I have failed too many times.  My ipod will remain forever music free.    ON the other hand I have a $20 MP3 player that I can very easily plug into the USB on any PC and I can simply copy and paste the songs from that PC to the MP3 player's folders.  I remove the unit and plug in the ear buds and I am off.  This is an experienced power user talking to you, not someone who just picked up this equipment for the first time.  Performing tasks with an iProduct is more complicated than with the much cheaper alternative hardware and softwares out there.

This same ipod touch can never be updated, it's OS is officially too old.  Many of the appps we spent good money on will not update and for some reason the old version will no longer work either.  Money gone.   I do understand that my equipment is a little older like all of 3 maybe 4 years and it uses itunes to sync, today there is icloud and I am going to hope that that has made things much easier for people.