My Philosophy on Apple and its iPod

First, just becuase I'm admitting the few shortcommings of the iPod, which has become my entire essense of life, doesn't mean that I dislike it. In fact, that would be most retrograde to my actual feelings for it. Upon asking "Why does the iPod not have such and such a feature?", one might be pressed to say that "Well, if they pulled out all their tricks on one model, then they'd never have to buy another one, and that would just not be smart for the company and business economics." Well, I'd like to counter that. Suppose such an incredibly versatile iPod DID come out, one with more features than you could shake a burnt IEEE cable at...what would happen? Well, everyone would probably want one. And then? Everyone would buy one, even if the price was fairly...let's say..."unfavorable". And THEN?! WELL...business would slow, maybe stop, until the first iPods started to break, malfunction, require upgrades, new technology was released that was not yet available to Apple, etc. And what would happen after that? Everyone would buy a new one. And that's the way all staple electronics are, especially in the concept of brand loyalty. Obviously, if a company were to create THE BEST product, then why woud anyone want to settle for something subpar? It makes absolutly no sense that, if everyone were to buy this "super iPod", and it would obviously need replacement later in life (even if only due to battery problems), they would not purchase yet another iPod to continue the best experience possible, seriously. Now, if you were to ask me what the iPod is lacking, I can tell you, and many of them are total "no-brainers" (sorry for the use of such infantile verbage)...

1. FM Tuner - Jesus, if this is not in the next version...I mean, this isn't UKRAINE where radio is only hitting its 20th anniversary and color TV is still a box of mystery
2. Multi-Function Middle Buttion - Currently, the middle button, when pressed and held during the playing of a song/video or viewing of a photo, has no function...how can this be?! Aren't there enough features lacking in the iPod that could easily be stuffed into a simple three-second hold of the middle button? - Of course there are. Let's explore the possibilities, as shown through the menu that would be displayed when the buttos is held for three seconds during playback (or pause). It's confusing to me, with such large libraries of music on 80GB devices, why there is no way to jump to the artist/genre/album of a song when listening to it. Of course you can just hit "Menu" to go backward, but if you are listening to ALL of your songs and just shuffling them, then you have to go to "Artists" and find the artist. Why should you not be able to rename your MP3s or, now, videos and photo files on-board? I propose AT LEAST for there to be a way to "mark" the file (be it video, audio, or photo) so that it shows up in iTunes during the next sync in a special section, all the files listed so you can batch-manipulate the fuck out of them, ID3 tags and all.

   The Options Menu - in order to better illustrate my vision, I have devised an ingenius Excel table...

• Wireless Capabilities - It would be the most awesome thing if you no longer needed a cable to sync your iPod through a bastardous cable. It would be even cooler if you could download content directly onto your iPod through WiFi HotSpots...if the RIAA is bitching about piracy, this is one of the first steps possible to take to encourage legal downloads and purchases. There have been many times when I would have been more than willing to download a game to my iPod, and even pay for it, exactly at that time when you are so incredibly bored that your emotion takes over and compels you to do something that you wouldn't normally do, like buy a game for your iPod, such as when standing in a sizeable line at Starbucks.
• The End of DRM Restrictions - Of course it makes sense to have DRM restrictions...after all, if the artist wasn't getting paid for their work, then they would not be able to feed their families, right? Well, isn't it the better argument that the artist makes music FOR people to buy it, and that it is something to OWN? If you cannot own the thing indefinitely, then you really cannot own it at all. The least Apple could do is keep a record of who buys what, so that you can have the file for all time, no matter what happens to your unstable computer or who gets into your iTunes library and decides to have a hayday with the "delete" button.
• Company Responsibility - Besides ensuring that what you purchase will continue to be in your posession, the fact that iTunes is so restrictive and it's .M4P format is more than cumbersome is just rediculous and archaic...it's like designing a pen to work on only one type of paper, and vice versa. Do you think that anyone would actually buy such a pen then? Exactly - NO!!! Christ...if you buy MUSIC, you are buying an experience that you should be able to have whenever and wherever you want, through whichever medium you choose, be it CD or MP3 player. [sarcastic, now] Of course, it makes sense to build an entire monopoly around yourself and refuse to share, like that 2nd-grader when you were in Kindergarten who used to rule that swingset which you could only use if you were his friend, EVEN THOUGH it was the school's property and your parents paid school taxes...and France is now acting like the responsible adult and punishing the devilish imp for being such a little bastard. Unfortunately, Dad (a.k.a., the United States of America) is being Disneyland Dad and letting the bully do whatever he wants because he thinks it's funny. Grow up, Apple. If you are so self-conscious about our products that you think you would fail if you didn't sucker everyone in and then pull the carpet out from under them, then maybe your products really do suck after all and we've just accidentely joined your cult, which we cannot dissolve due to M4P, the devil himself.