Sunday, December 14, 2008

OMG - App Store is a hassle.

Well, I know i'm not the bleeding edge, since I upgraded my Nano to iPod Touch the other day. I really like the little thing which made my flight to Portugal a little easier (watching S05 of a popular TV show :)) But i can't help complaining about what Apple could done better with this gadget.

First: Sorting music.

I have alot of mp3 music that are coded in different ways, for example "Acoustic covers vol1" that have it's songs coded for each artist and song name. I want to play this "album" which is a nightmare since all the songs are in defferent artists and albums. Whan I ended up doing is, creating a playlist for each album that I transferred to the iPod. I remember the good ol days when I had a iRiver which could play a "folder" without any problems.

Second: Downloading from App Store.

Cool, I can add apps to my iPod! Let's browse and install a random (free) app just to try it out...Login! Huh? How do I create an account? For App Store? for Itunes? for Apple? where in my iPod can I create an account? No freakin where!

Okay, lets try do open up safari and go to Apple.com and create an account using the iPod. No luck, I get no confirmation e-mail and no success downloading from App Store using that account. So finally, let's open up my computer and go to iTunes, and try to create the account from there. Oh, I need to add additional information to my account. Woot, Credit Card number? Oh well, i trust Apple, so they can have it. But what now?! They think i live in the US?, no I'm from Sweden, currently staying in Portugal. So how do I change country...lets see.... NOWHERE! Aw crap, I give up.. might just be easier to jailbreak it and add apps that way...

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