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- - 10 reasons why I'll swap my iPod for a Zune
  - Original contribution by: Chris Lake
  - 7/29/2006 11:42:59 AM
  - I was given an iPod as a birthday gift a couple of years ago. Immediately, I fell in love with it, and it revolutionised my listening habits. It looks good, it is easy to use, and my particular model stored 5,000 songs, about half of my CD-based music collection.
    
    But my love affair quickly turned sour. Over time, I have experienced various problems with the iPod and iTunes, some of which are listed after the jump.
    
    My iPod is theoretically full (well, it would be, had it not refused to upload 40% of my digital music catalogue), meaning that I need a new one with more storage space, but because of these issues I'm going to wait for Microsoft's `Zune'. I don't expect MS to fix everything, but I just can't commit to investing in another overhyped, underperforming device from Apple, beautiful as they are.
    
    So here are my top 10 issues with iPod and iTunes:
    
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  - - - by jsexton
      - 7/29/2006 11:46:01 AM
      - Eh...I'm not sure that the article all that great, but the title made me read it. ;-) iTunes usability & stability problems are the only issues that really resonate with me personally.