iPod Problems Options

[lKVNiiKINKYl]

I let my friend borrow my iPod mini the other day and she dropped it. She gave it back and she told me it didn't work. On the screen ti has the iPod with a sad face and the exclamation point. I forgot about it during the weekend so I thought it just died and just now I tried to charge it. For about five minutes, it had the big battery in the middle of the screen and a lightning bolt and the battery was colored about 1/3rd way but it didn't more, and about ten mintues after that the screen with the sad face and exclamation point came back. It says www.apple.com/support/ipod and I went there and went through like everything and it will not reset or anything. Any ideas?

[*mipadi*]

The secret to the iPod's popularity isn't due to its being "trendy" per se. It became popular because of the whole package. Unlike other media players, it's simple. The Zen player's menus take forever to navigate, especially compared to the iPod. And it integrates well with iTunes. Many other players take "fiddling"; the iPod just needs to be plugged in, and it works. That's generally the Apple philosophy: just plug it in and go. That's why most of their software, from OS X down to iTunes, is beautiful--because it integrates well.

People don't want to take a lot of time to "fiddle" with computers. Hardcore computer enthusiasts might like the fact that the PC platform offers more room for tinkering, but the average computer user doesn't care about that or want that. They just want things to work. And that is why the iPod/iTunes combo became so popular: because it just works, without a lot of fiddling.