Ao ler uma matéria na MacWorld, popular revista americana dedicada aos assuntos relativos à Apple, discordei da opinião deles e enviei uma carta (email). Qual não foi minha surpresa ao abrir a revista ontem na hora de dormir e ver que meu texto tinha sido publicado!
Claro que eles picotam do jeito que querem, mas mesmo assim achei muito legal! E ainda foi o primeiro texto da seção de cartas.
A revista comentava que o iPod Classic, aquele com disco rígido, deveria sair de linha em breve. O que eu argumentei é que esse iPod não deveria nunca ser descontinuado, por uma série de razões, a principal delas sendo que o iPod foi feito originalmente pra gente escutar música. E bastante música. Esse negócio de vídeo e aplicações não quer dizer nada para a grande maioria das pessoas que compra um iPod. Por isso essa versão Classic deveria existir para sempre: permite que coloquemos lá toda a nossa coleção (tá bom, pra mim não toda, mas enfim, tudo que realmente é significativo), e possamos escutar qualquer música a qualquer hora.
Para fundamentar minha opinião, apresentei outros argumentos, que não foram publicados. Segue o texto original da carta em inglês. Digam se concordam comigo ou não.
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Subject: Classic Rocks!
Hi Jason,
It's my first time writing to MacWorld and I have to say thanks for doing a great job through all these years.
I just wanted to express my opinion about the iPod Classic: we need it. It cannot die. Quite a few of us don't need expensive large touch screens or fast and small solid state drives. I will tell you why:
1. My music collection is rather big. I still haven't been able to consolidate it to a single volume, but I would guess it would not fit in a 500GB drive. How can you pick only 16GBs of it to have it with you?
2. I don't want to be spending time every day to choose what I want to listen to. It is too time consuming to delete and add stuff all the time, and I have more things to do. I want to have the works of my preferred artists always with me.
3. No matter how bigger the flash or solid state drives get, there will always be a hard disk 10 times larger for less money. In a music player, would take capacity over size and speed every day of the week.
4. Some people were waiting for a hard disk iPod with a Touch screen. Can you imagine what kind of battery this thing would need? No, the Classic does not need a touch screen. The click wheel is genius.
5. The price can be kept down. Apple has the Classic format and architecture nailed down, just keep adding larger disks as they become available and that's it. With very little R&D and marketing costs, the product line can be kept forever, with of course a smaller production than the new models.
6. I can always have two or more iPods, there's an iPod for each application. I currently own the Classic for my main collection, the Nano for workouts and the iPhone. If am flying I just load a movie or two in the iPhone. But of course, each of them costed me under 300 bucks.
That's why I think Macworld should help us Classic lovers and publish our thoughts. By the way, when Apple launched the new 120GB iPod, I rushed and bought a 160GB old stock for a discount. I hope this is not my last Classic. Classic Rocks!
If you decide to publish this letter, feel free to slice and dice it. If not, thanks for listening anyway!
Marcel Ribas
It's my first time writing to MacWorld and I have to say thanks for doing a great job through all these years.
I just wanted to express my opinion about the iPod Classic: we need it. It cannot die. Quite a few of us don't need expensive large touch screens or fast and small solid state drives. I will tell you why:
1. My music collection is rather big. I still haven't been able to consolidate it to a single volume, but I would guess it would not fit in a 500GB drive. How can you pick only 16GBs of it to have it with you?
2. I don't want to be spending time every day to choose what I want to listen to. It is too time consuming to delete and add stuff all the time, and I have more things to do. I want to have the works of my preferred artists always with me.
3. No matter how bigger the flash or solid state drives get, there will always be a hard disk 10 times larger for less money. In a music player, would take capacity over size and speed every day of the week.
4. Some people were waiting for a hard disk iPod with a Touch screen. Can you imagine what kind of battery this thing would need? No, the Classic does not need a touch screen. The click wheel is genius.
5. The price can be kept down. Apple has the Classic format and architecture nailed down, just keep adding larger disks as they become available and that's it. With very little R&D and marketing costs, the product line can be kept forever, with of course a smaller production than the new models.
6. I can always have two or more iPods, there's an iPod for each application. I currently own the Classic for my main collection, the Nano for workouts and the iPhone. If am flying I just load a movie or two in the iPhone. But of course, each of them costed me under 300 bucks.
That's why I think Macworld should help us Classic lovers and publish our thoughts. By the way, when Apple launched the new 120GB iPod, I rushed and bought a 160GB old stock for a discount. I hope this is not my last Classic. Classic Rocks!
If you decide to publish this letter, feel free to slice and dice it. If not, thanks for listening anyway!
Marcel Ribas
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Concordo geral!
Aliás, o meu ipod ainda é o antigo dos antigos-
versão vintage...
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