The Ultimate Head Phones

it should or why is this stoipod thing getting so hot? , Why does the bass sound so bad? , Why won’t the volume go any higher? . I ran into such a situation with my iPhone. I wanted a dock with speakers on it so that I could listen to it without headphones on. I went to a local electronics store that had a large selection of docks with decent speakers. Several had pictures on the packaging showing iPod Touches. None of them said they were compatible with the iPhone. I went to a display unit and seated my iPhone in it. My iPhone warned me the dock wasn’t made for use with an iPhone but it played just fine and sounded great! I thought to myself stoipod (cr)Apple they just want to charge more money for the same thing just to be labeled as compatible with the iPhone . I bought the dock and headed home. Well, I was an idiot and I’m someone who should actually have known better. I wasn’t 5 minutes into a sweet sonata when I heard the iPhone handshaking with the cell towers at full volume through the speakers. Gee, maybe that’s why it needs to be certified as officially working with the iPhone! Who’da thunk! I know no one else would have been tripped up by that but I wasn’t thinking I don’t know how sensitive the Nano is to impedance differences or interference from static, or chatter on the switches. But I know that it would suck to suddenly have the volume change or have it skip to the next song because I pulled my polar fleece off. I’m sure Apple could give a crap if some cheap Chinese knock-off headphones show up online. Anyone who ditches Apple’s acceptable headphones for a 4.99 set from WalMart or eBay isn’t really in their sales demographic anyway. On the other hand, I’m sure someone who enjoys a quality, custom-fit headset won’t even notice the dollar or two licensing fee in the overall purchase price. Then again, would an audiophile really connect $600.00 Sennheisers to a Nano? Dunno. Haven’t heard the quality yet. But I’ll bet you one thing: Sennheiser won’t bat an eye at licensing the chip or the certification (if they come up with their own implementation).What this comes down to is that Apple-bashing is a national pastime online. Bloggers and commenters will become gleefully apoplectic over the slightest perceived deviation of Apple from their professed ideals. It’s de rigeur to predict the worst about every new Apple product. It never has enough features, power, freedom, whatever. There’s always a better product or a better way of doing it and anyone who would deign to actually purchase an Apple product are worthy of nothing but scorn.I’m sick of it. I use Apple’s products where they fit I love my iPhone it beats every other phone I’ve used for the things I’m looking for. I’ve got an old Mac tower that’s still chugging along next to my Linux boxes. I’ve got, and love, a Macbook Air. I’ve also got a Dell Mini running Ubuntu. I use what works and don’t seem to find the need to make inflammatory denigrations on other products that I have no intention of buying.No one seems to have a problem with 90% of the world rushing to Microsoft’s door and throwing their money down for their products, but, boy howdy, you’ve got to be a fool and a loser to swallow Apple’s DRM’d, over-priced, under-powered, proprietary piles of crap!I swear!