Fuck Your iPod
I can understand the switch from VHS to DVD, and cassete tapes to CD's, but your whole entertainment system to a little piece of plastic shit that could fit in the crack of your ass? Give me a fucking break.
I thought iPods that held 10,000 songs was retarded, for me anyway because I don't even know 10,000 songs let alone like 10,000 songs. But now iPod has stooped to a new low & given you the option of having videos on it. You can get most of your favorite T.V. shows on it & I think I even heard something about converting DVD movies on it.
Now I don't know too much about it, but I would expect them to at least make something to where you can hook it up to your T.V., (which I'll bet is going to be sold seperately) because watching Rocky III on a 1 inch screen doesn't seem very appealing to me.
What's next? iPod cell phones? Before you know it, your entire source of entertainment will fit right in the palm of your hand. And that's the problem. I'm not writing this to talk about how trendy iPods are or to bash that faggot Bono, but to tell you droids about how stupid iPods actually are.
I'm a strong believer in the term "bigger is better". And I have two reasons for this belief.
1. They're harder to lose or misplace.
2. They're harder to steal.
That's right, I actually like things that a thief would have to bust his ass for to steal from me. Let's say you broke into my house & decided to steal all of my good shit. I'm not saying you'll fail, but you'll sure enough have a hard time even if you brought another person with you. And you'd probably only have time to grab one or two things before my nosy ass neighbors call the cops on you. I hate my neighbors, but one thing I can count on is they'll sure as shit call the fuzz if they see some suspicious shit going on.
Here's all you'd have to deal with:
Computer: My computer probably isn't too hard to steal, but even then, it isn't a shitty iMac that consists of a whole computer crammed into a monitor. The tower is pretty big itself, bigger than most of the one's I see other people have. I didn't even succumb to a thin LCD monitor. I still rule the interweb with a 17" tube monitor. Although none of this is really hard to take, it would probably take you at least two trips to get all of it.
Stereo: This is something on the easier side as well, but it's no boombox. It's bulky & in three pieces. There is no handle for your convenience, and there's no option to attach the speakers to the side. So yet again, possibly a two trip deal.
DVD & VCR: I didn't go out & buy a DVD & VCR in one, those things are fucking retarded, you can't even record off one another. So it's two seperate units, not hard to take, but not as easy as just taking a combo.
Game Systems: The hardest part about that would probably be dealing with the spaghetti mess if you want the cords to everything.
T.V.: I don't know how popular big screen T.V.'s are anymore, but from what I've seen those and regular tube T.V.'s are being slowly replaced with flat panel T.V.'s. Whether they sit on a stand or hang on your wall, they're still small enough you'd have no trouble getting it out of someone's house & into your van or even compact car. Not my T.V. It's not a big screen, but it's not exactly your standard tube, and it sure as shit isn't light. It's a console T.V. For any of you who don't actually know what that is, it's a huge T.V. that stands about 2 1\2 ft. tall and almost 4 ft. wide that sits on your floor. It's a little older but the screen is still a nice size. The top itself serves as a table for your VCR, DVD, game systems, and you could even put some pictures of your toothless family members on it. So not is it only bulky & you'd have to take a bunch of shit off of it if you want to take it, the god damn thing weighs almost 200 pounds. If someone came in & robbed me, I bet my T.V. would be left behind.
Now I didn't write all this to brag to everyone about all my stuff, because it really isn't anything to brag about, it's just the shit that someone would probably want to take if they were to rob my house. So if you wanted to take all that you'd have to put in some good physical labor. It would probably take almost an hour to clear me out of all that stuff counting the games and movies. In reality that's a lot of stuff to take, you'd need a decent sized van to get it all. So now I've got all that over with I'm going to get to the point.
I'm guessing that in about 5 years iPods will have enough features to where you don't need a stereo, a cell phone, DVD, VCR, or even a computer. I'm sure they'll also attempt to take off with gaming. And people will buy into this, because everyone's all about being lazy & saving space these days. They'll buy these giant houses but don't want to use the space it comes with, pointless.
So in 5 years people's entire source of entertainment will be an iPod sitting on a little stand in their living room, with a paper thin T.V. hanging on the wall, some speakers, a keyboard & a game controller. The T.V. will serve as a monitor as well.
I bet most people would think of this as a great thing, "Wow, now I have more room to put worthless sculptures around my house". But is that much shit in one little thing really that great? I could walk in, pull your iPod out of it's dock, stick it in my pocket & leave. I'd be in & out in 5 seconds. If I wanted to take the rest of your shit it would take about 1 minute, I could just use your T.V. as a tray & put everything else on it & I'm gone. So there you go, just taking your iPod would mean I've already stolen your music, your computer, your games, your phone, your camera, and your movies in 5 seconds, the rest would just be unsult after injury. You know sooner or later iPods will have all that crap on it. Maybe not a fully functional computer if Apple still wants to sell their shitty Macs.
Besides being easy to steal, are these things even made well? How many times can you drop this thing & it will still work? In five years people will be talking about how their computer is down because they dropped it in the toilet. But that's what Apple wants, they make this little piece of shit that's expensive as fuck, is easy to steal, and probably even easier to break. So when you break your iPod do you say fuck it & go buy yourself a stereo? No, you go buy another iPod. Way to get fucked.
A lot of people think I just don't like anything new just because it's new. That's not true, I don't like anything new because it's all made like shit. Companies don't exactly build things to last anymore. They cut corners by using cheaper materials & hiring retarded Chinese children to make it for them. This doesn't go with just iPods but cars, T.V.'s, computers, camcorders, even homes. Of course they look nice, but that isn't saying much, you can take a haggard loose ass crack whore & make her look like a supermodel these days.
Don't believe me? Go dig out your old NES & throw the controller on the ground about 20 times, plug it in, & I bet it still works. Then try the same thing with your PS2 controller, after the first or second throw the thing will probably shatter, CHA CHING for Sony!
Does this make you think twice about getting an iPod if you already haven't? Do you really want to trust all your music, movies, & whatever else they come up with in a little chip surrounded by cheap plastic? You're an idiot if you do.