iPhone rox, iTunes sux!

I finally joined the rank of those who have succumbed to the temptation of this society of consumption and sold my soul to Apple…
Ok, enough with the drama, I’ve bought an iPhone!

I’m not new to these wee crazy things and have already flushed a photo 20GO a few years back (yes… I managed to drop it in the toilets, guess what… it’s not waterproof!), and successfully managed to own up to this day a video 30GO iPod and a 8GO iPod Touch (for sale!).

When I visited my brother who had already sold his soul a few months ago, I was very impressed but didn’t really need one (not that I do now, mind you, I’m just weaker!).
Now that I’m travelling to London every week, I must admit that these long nights on my own in the hotel room are quite boring without the Internet (damn credit crunch, the company won’t pay for the Internet!)… Which was enough of a reason for me to run to the store and buy one!

I’ve had it for 2 days now so can’t really say much about it, except that it’s all I loved about the iPod Touch and then some more, a lot more!

However, I hate iTunes, always have, always will!

I found this neat freeware that at least allows you to download your music from your iPhone onto your PC (this is taking intellectual property defence way too far, all I want to do is download my legally obtained music onto my computer to listen to it at work, not impoverish the World’s culture for cryin’ out loud!).

Anyway, check this out, it does what it could say on the tin, no installation required!

SharePod: http://www.getsharepod.com/

However, this doesn’t help for ringtones!

See, the main difference between an iPod Touch and an iPhone is the phone feature, I know, took me a while too to figure this out.

2 days after having bought the iPhone, I decided to look into the ringtones (nobody have my number just yet… not even me, so no rush!).

I found this overly cool and straightforward way of creating your own ringtones from your own legally obtained music in iTunes.

This is just the greatest thing ever, so easy to do!

So, I now have my favourite part of the Jeff Buckley rendition of Hallelujah, how cool!
Well… not so cool since I can’t get it on my iPhone!

See, the iPhone is a pretty damn good device for people on the go, except that iTunes is like the most retarded piece of software ever created!

It won’t let you do anything if you try to use to sync with a computer (guess what Apple? People on the go tend to have more than 1 computer since… well yeah, since they move!). Scratch that, it will let you erase your music!
I’ve just managed to lose my music up to the letter L… of course I won’t fly back home until Thursday night so I’m stuck with my music from L to Z… I even lost Lilly Allen… won’t even be able to play F**k You!

Anyway… Now I’ve lost half of my music and still don’t have my ringtone on my iPhone… but since even I don’t know my phone number I guess it doesn’t matter so much!

Welcome to the geeky side of the force!