Read this if you are thinking of up grading your iphone or ipod touch to the new software. I finally upgraded my Ipod from the original software that it came with, which was 2.(something), to the new 4.0 software that is available.....against my husband's recomendation to not do so.
BIG MISTAKE.
This is my story.
Gripe #1:
I use my ipod as my sole method for playlists in my Spin classes. I rely on this thing pretty heavily. I have put hours and hours into organizing my music and making playlists to have a good flow that not only sounds good from song to song, but also creates a mood for the ride and correlates to the movements that we are doing. I think being able to pull together music that has feeling in the ride is what makes a class special, and it has worked for me so far.
Last week, the next day after the upgrade before I knew things had gone badly, I selected a playlist and the class description from my notebook for class that day. Plug it in, and start the warm up. I get the correct warm up song, the correct second song, but wrong third song which was also the last song on the playlist which should have had up to 13 songs. So in the middle of class, they had to sit there while I found random music that could get us through the class. I did not like this one bit. After class, I glance through the rest of the playlists that I had made, and they were all the same. I was going to have to sit down re-load every single playlist that was on my ipod. Just counted them to be sure, and there are 82 playlists.
I'm not happy about this.
Gripe #2:
Back into the Spin classes. In the Settings option, I always select the Gereral>Auto-Lock>Never option so that my screen will stay on for the entire class. Before the upgrade, I just hit the "never" button, then the Home button, and go straight back to my music. Well, it doesn't work that way anymore. And for awhile, I thought I would not be able to use the Never Lock option and would have to constantly Unlock my ipod every couple of minute that I didn't touch the screen. Not Cool At All. But as I sat down and played with it for a little while, I realized if I hit the Never lock option, then go back to the General screen, then back to the Settings screen, then back to Home, then back to my music, that it would stay. Not that big of a deal if I do it before hand, but why couldn't they just use the ease of keeping it the way it was before??
Gripe #3:
The 4.0 software's supposed cool new thing is its ability to organize all of the apps into groups on your first screen so that you don't have 5 or 6 different pages of apps where you can never find what you need. Such as having all your games together in one block, your social apps in one, and your entertainment apps in another. So I took the time to drag all of my apps to make all of the appropriate categories. After I had organized everything, I noticed the Facebook App had a notification. So I tried to open it. It pops up, and immediately shuts down. Do I delete it and try to reistall it, thinking something had messed up when I was moving things, and the same thing happened. Then I try to open another app, and it does the same thing. Finally I tried syncing my ipod to itunes, and then it magically worked. So this was not that big of a deal either, but with all the great "user-friendly" crap you hear about ipod, you never hear any bad press about anything.
Gripe #4:
This doesn't necessarily pertain to me, but Jonas is the guy in charge at his work of helping anybody that has a company issued iphone that has trouble with syncing their work outlook email. Most of the time, it doesn't work the way it had in the past, and he has to go in and change a bunch of settings. He advised everyone at his work to not upgrade at all until Apple puts out a newer version that will import the email so that the average user can actually figure out how to load their own email and won't have to use his IT skills to fix everybody's phones.
Gripe #5:
The battery runs out super fast.
Ok, just to be fair, there is one thing that I do like about the new software. As I was fussing in Gripe #1 where all my playlists were screwed up, I found that if I opened a playlist and pulled it down, that there are now editing buttons and a search bar at the top where the playlists can be edited on the ipod. With the old software, only a tempory "On-The-Go" playlist could be made. But now, I could make several new ones and save them each without having to go to the computer. This is very cool.
So my point in this whole ipod soap-box is that you hear all this crap about how cool and easy and hip it is to have any Apple product, and then you hear all this bad press about any Microsoft product....but WHO CARES?? Well, Apple has its flaws too. And just because you put a bunch of Apple stickers on your Toyota Prius (
yes, I'm talking to that jerk that cut me off on I-55 the other day that had 5 Apple stickers on his car signifying all the different Apple products that he owns) does not make you cool and hip.
End of Rant.
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