Ever since the moment I installed itune, I hate it--the installment was not smooth even after I applied the trouble shooting tips, and it had such a strong discrimination against my laptop that I could only manage to set it up on my office desktop. The user interface was not convenient at all for a long-time Winamp user like me. However, I made peace with myself thinking that as long as I got all my music downloaded to ipod, I don't have to use the clumsy player again. Besides, you have to extend your tolerance somewhat at least for the sake of a cute-looking ipod and, of course, the "famous" apple brand.

But Nooooo, in less than four months, apple has proved me wrong, successfully and repeatedly. Being in possession of apple gave me the feeling of nurturing a mischievous baby. When you first hold it in your hand and it's soundly asleep, you can't help admiring it cute little face and appreciating the fact of its presence. And then you turned it on, oh my god, good luck with you. Before you even have time to realize that you have just waken a monster, you were busily engaged in serving its insatiable needs--cool new outfit, fresh content to fill its stomach and subscription to the everlasting upgrade to catch up with the world(what a resemblance to education!) Now that you are old and tired and simply can't keep up with meeting its demands, would it leave you relentlessly alone? Aha, you wish. But Noooo, it will always be there with you, crying crying and crying for more. Just like working with a whiny intractable baby tyrant, the problem of having an ipod is how to find the magic button to TURN IT OFF.

Yes, my headache is how to turn it off. Sounds funny? Remember all the apple commercials that scorn PC's myriad defects, of which I believe the frequent needs to restart is one. Well, with apple, you simply can't, no matter how hard and how long you try to push the right button. Up till now, I am still amazed by my magic touch that bestow this ipod with eternal life. Eternal, of course, until it run out of battery and hopefully turn itself off.

And don't worry about me, after dealing with apple's products for so long, I do have my patience. Now I can appreciate life's quietness.Nonetheless, when it occurs to me that iphone and AppleTV are on their ways to the market, I do feel coldness transmitting through my spine. Maybe that's a signal to tell me that I am no longer a member of the cool young generation that apple is targeting at. Better go back to work and think about my retirement plan, instead of listening to music, making a call or watching TV.

PS: now that I have found the magic key, but I am still annoyed, so I will keep the body of this post as it was.