When you see people in the checkout buying their food with EBT and then get $20 cash back so they can buy alcohol with cash at the same register. Your tax dollars at work.

Yeah, it annoys me that the iPod has niggly faults (no power switch, no reset button, no battery compartment lid, no watchdog timer to resolve 'hanging') that more development would have cured, but instead Apple spent time and money artificially restricting and obfuscating basic functions.

I mean, really, you transfer your mp3 file (lovingly taken from vinyl and hand-finished with the correct spelling and umlauts and everything) to the thing and it RENAMES THE FILE WITHOUT ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION! Nice going, guys. Good data handling procedures there, ALTERING FUCKING USER DATA WITHOUT THE COURTESY OF MAKING A BACKUP. Excuse me while I instead copy the mp3 onto micro-sd ready to be crammed into my phone or car radio.

I could MAYBE put up with all the iPod's deficiencies if it was some POS Kazakhstani device i picked up at Asda for £10. Ludicrously, the crappy £10 music player/usb stick i DID buy from Asda is less crippled.