LargetrouserS

Two-fisted Tales of Trousery.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Bad products

I've decided to start occasionally posting about terrible products and services. If anyone wants to join in, please feel free. This week: The iPod.

Terrible Product: The iPod
1) It makes you look like you've got a head full of spaghetti
2) There's no radio
3) You can't record on it (without buying a microphone)
4) It's got a rechargeable battery that you can't replace when it runs out and you're on the tube or in Ilfracombe
5) You can't plug it straight into the USB socket - you need cables and cradles cluttering up the desk
6) It makes the user look incredibly chavvy and un-educated, "...need MP3 player...uugh...get iPod..." as though the user is incapable of doing any consumer research for themselves
7) It wasn't the first MP3 player on the market, it certainly isn't the best and yet it is becoming a generic term.
8) For all its drawbacks, it still comes as a premium to better players, rather like a car with no wheels or engine selling for more than a complete vehicle
9) Despite the drawbacks and overpricing, ovine people still buy it, even though there are cheaper, better equipped alternatives
10) I can't think of a tenth thing and that's just irritating.

If you can think of a tenth or eleventh thing that is just plain rubbish about the iPod, let me know.

Also, if you have other products that are just rubbish, bad, irritating, terrible or dangerous, let's have a look at them too.

LargetrouserS: The bottom bracket since 1990

3 Comments:

Blogger The Moai said...

It looks like a giant aspirin, and the white earphopne cabling is tantamount to a wearing a 'PLEASE MUG ME' sign on your head.

That's 10and 11 for you. Two for the price of one; the Moai Sale is now on!

Go for a Rio Carbon every time.

06 March, 2006 09:28  
Blogger Largetrousers said...

Thank you all for your recent contributions. I had omitted to mention the shortcomings of individual products: the egg-like frailty of the Nano; the irritation of a player with no display (the Shuffle); the utter pointlessness of the picture version (presumably you've taken the photos with your 'phone and they're all on there too).
I was intrigued by the musings of Robohobo53. I cannot condone gang shagging, unless of course this refers to formation dancing. I detect that he/she is a reader of 2000AD through the repeated use of the term "simp". It is somewhat unusual that he/she finds him/herself threatened by little girls, although I'm sure that William Brown (ref. Richmal Crompton) would concur. Finally, I'm looking forward to Robohobo's fete where I'm sure there will be the traditional stalls of tombola and guess the weight of Joss Ackland's spunky back pack.

Cheery bye
"Thee" Trousers - originality is no excuse for a plinth

12 April, 2006 19:04  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh mighty trousered one...

Thought you might like this pic...

from Grandpa Simpson's experience with the "die-pod" invented to assist in suicide...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexblog/122240680/

05 June, 2006 21:59  

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