Macintosh doesn't like Microsoft very much (599 hits)
Category: NoneRating: -1.38 on 26 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Josh (View user info) at 2004-12-29 11:02:23 EST
Well my sisters were lucky enough to receive iPods off Santa for Christmas but seeing as how my sisters can operate a computer about as well as an armless man can drive a car, I was the lucky one that got stuck with loading the software.
Should be simple right, just stick the CD in the drive, install the software, plug the iPod into the USB port and she's right to play whatever talent less music that the charts are dictating my sisters to listen to.
It was all going wonderfully fine until I plugged the thing into the USB port and I get several popups, first was my camera software which loves to show itself whenever anything is plugged into the USB port, then I see that Windows has detected new hardware..well that's great it must be working I guess, Oh and here we have iTunes revealing itself asking me to update software or something...hmmmmm....trust Windows or Mac....Windows or Mac....I go Windows...well Mac didn't like that.
Windows asks me to insert the CD (which I had just done, but I went along with it)...ok no problems getting driver information, etc. Ding, and done, ok just open the drive which is listed as a 'Mass Storage Device' and this is where my problems began...Windows wants me to format...hmmm decisions decisions, hang on what am I talking about, this is the only thing I can do so lets go...no problems all done and the music is pasted into the drive and we're right to go....Wrong.
Ok now when I turn the, slightly lighter than a brick, iPod mini on I get some stupid icon flashing in my face, I could tell that it was taunting me simply by the way it kept flashing as I frantically searched the manual hoping to discover what this icon meant...No luck...
After searching the iPod support site I finally discovered that I needed to completely reset the iPod, apparently Windows doesn't like Mac and tricks people into doing things that they aren't supposed to, such as formatting competitors hardware (Format Windows style, taking over people's products I guess).
However, Mac also refuses to commune with Windows and only wants to allow people to use its software, so now I'm stuck with Quicktime and iTunes well I say screw you I want Windows Media Player and whatever the Microsoft equivalent of Quicktime is!
Why can't people all just stick to Windows, while Bill Gates may be an ass, at least he's doing his part to quash the competition by fucking with their products when used on his OS...I guess those fools at Microsoft do actually know what they're doing, just not when it comes to software...
User Reviews
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-01-17 08:41:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You're an idiot. Especially since every single iPod Mini I've come across works equally well on both Mac and PC. Get a fuckin' clue, dumbass.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-01-17 08:13:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Truly retarded.
Submitted by Mario (user info) at 2005-04-20 08:04:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No shit.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-04-20 08:02:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
oh christ.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-04-20 07:54:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Only a complete fucking moron would write this.
Of course , only a complete moron would try to "just mess around" to get their new $300 toy to work too.
Submitted by chronic_one (user info) at 2005-04-20 07:49:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
someone said it first, but I digress...
FUCK ALLAH!!
(..hey, who is that guy, anyway?)
Submitted by JERKKFACE (user info) at 2005-01-13 13:13:03 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Fuck Allah
Submitted by Viper_04 (user info) at 2004-12-29 21:39:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Beh...
Unfortunately some people missed the point, I was just having a go at the conflict between windows and mac, not my own stupidity, I guess unfortunately not all of you are intelligent enough to look past it
Submitted by FreshPrince (user info) at 2004-12-29 18:49:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Macintosh better fucking love microsoft, they saved macintosh's shit from going bankrupt...
Die macs, every last fucking one of you
Submitted by gabrielpm (user info) at 2004-12-29 18:34:17 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
If you buy a product, you follow the instructions. If you broke an iPod install, you have no reason to complain.
Submitted by potatomanjack (user info) at 2004-12-29 16:49:18 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
This post is the written equivalent to me shitting my pants while eating lunch with my boss.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2004-12-29 13:20:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
dang! even my 9 year old love slave can figure out his ipod thingy.
oops, how embarrassing. i typed his instead of her. my secret's out.
Submitted by Tastycat (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:58:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Macintosh isn't a company, Apple makes iPods. I just think that might be the turning point that changed this from a -2 to a -4.
Unfortunately, the lowest I can give is -2. Damn.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:58:12 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
I think that I have met boxes of hammers with more computer skills than you.
Submitted by riggyrow (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:54:46 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Dude, you must be as dumb as a stump.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:49:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Apple doesn't sell computers, they sell a vision.
(yeah, that was topic related...)
Submitted by vettesrule88 (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:38:41 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Dumbass, my 8 year old sister set it up no problem, and you can't
Submitted by whataefag (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:24:59 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:17:58 (#)
Ranking: 0
You sound like a fucking retard. You understand the concept of plug'n'play? You plug the iPod in, install the software, enable mass storage device in iTunes, don't INSTALL ANYTHING THROUGH WINDOWS, then there you go. Open up iTunes to put music on it, open it up as a mass storage device through windows to put files on it.
Better yet, why don't you just throw it in the bin and realize you are a dumb piece of shit who shouldn't have been born in the 20th century.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:19:04 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Stupid, incoherent rambling.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:17:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
You sound like a fucking retard. You understand the concept of plug'n'play? You plug the iPod in, install the software, enable mass storage device in iTunes, don't INSTALL ANYTHING THROUGH WINDOWS, then there you go. Open up iTunes to put music on it, open it up as a mass storage device through windows to put files on it.
Better yet, why don't you just throw it in the bin and realize you are a dumb piece of shit who shouldn't have been born in the 20th century.
Submitted by Jarvis (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:10:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
The iPod is not hard to set up.
Submitted by Freight_Train (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:09:40 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
this was a MEH
Submitted by cheesedick (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:08:59 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
PISS WHINE PISS WHINE
Hows about "-2 Fuck Off"
cunt
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:05:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Windows and Mac are both abortions.
Submitted by MaximusPadus (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:05:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
How will we progress under 1 company? Fuck that. Open source, everybody wins.
Submitted by WhatTheHell (user info) at 2004-12-29 11:04:51 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Go home Josh, you are an idiot.