Comments on: Apple plans iPods with automatic volume control

By: Stay

Stay — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:08:51 +0000

Might be a good thing. More than once, when I was trying to press the “next” button on my iPod, the pressure on the wheel caused the volume to jump all the way up to the max, blaring at full volume in my ears.

By: FX

FX — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:25:09 +0000

Microshiite, uhh, what do I gain from lying? you working at Aplle? has nothing to do with where I worked, maybe if I was still there I would take some photos for you, or maybe you can ask around and find someone else you trust that deals with reverse logistics, no need to lie.

By: Boing

Boing — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:44:10 +0000

Intrusive methods just make people resentful and unwilling to listen (to the message not the music).

Be interesting to see sales of ipods drop if they do this (assuming u can’t turn it off).

By: BlackPlastic

BlackPlastic — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:40:08 +0000

To everyone saying “if people want to listen loud and stuff their hearing, they’re just stupid”…

Well, if you’ve ever been in a nightclub or at a concert, you’ve done it too. Does that make you stupid?

No, it’s about educating. Most people DON’T KNOW what a safe hearing level is. afaik real-life issues like safe ipod listening and not to w4nk with soap are not taught in school.

I’m all for the “red line on the volume meter” approach. It’s clear, says what’s safe and then people will know and get to choose.

Doing it like this just invites hacking, which is then seen to be “cool” (what, u playin unhacked, foo?) and there goes the good intention.

By: Microshiite

Microshiite — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:46:37 +0000

reall FX? And what warehouse would that be? I worked for Aplle for a while so what is say is full of crap

By: FX

FX — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:30:51 +0000

can you read anything about an ipod or apple in general without mentioning how many units have been sold?? I use to work at a warehouse and our customer was a large department store, we took in all returns from all the store across the US, scan and sort items to vendors, the ipod pallets were basically large boxes 4′x3.5′ and 4′ tall, and we would FILL these daily with returns, do those get subtracted from the “sales”?? nope. so now for every one of those units returned they are potentially counted as 2 “Sales” if they were exchanged… and that’s just one chain or stores… bloated numbers.

By: required

required — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:06:04 +0000

in europe all sold players are already capped (eu law) at at certain point, you can check by looking at the iriver firmware, which states the db number…

By: adam

adam — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:58:09 +0000

they should put an auto-off in all Apple products, so that their crappy products just shut off after a few hours with a message “warning, further listening will turn you into a pathetic apple fanboy”

By: zenk u

zenk u — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:28:20 +0000

in a country were an 8 year old can be sued for a ski accident, I can understand a company want to cover their ass…….

By: rx7_ted

rx7_ted — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:26:02 +0000

the newest ipod firmware for my ipod video 5g already has manual top volume restriction… mine is set to max out at a volume i think is the loudest i will ever need(which is like a third of what my earbuds can output105db->35db), and that way i’ll never go high enough to be damaging my ears.

i think they did enough by offering that feature. and then its up to the user to care enough for their ears to use that feature. if you’re too stupid to know that listening to extremely loud music for too long will hurt your ears then you really DO deserve to lose your hearing, i mean come on.. its common sense isn’t it?

that said i guess its a good thing that they’re putting the auto sound dimmer thing in, as long as it can be turned off!

By: chris

chris — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:24:31 +0000

it’s probably gonna be optional so i have no concern

By: speedy11131

speedy11131 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:16:14 +0000

If I want to blast my music at full volume, I should have the damn right to (if i’m not disturbing anyone else).

Only in America… *sigh*…

By: SKA

SKA — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:21:41 +0000

“The idiots are winning!!” – Dan Ashcroft

By: docwho

docwho — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:10:10 +0000

does apple plan ipod than dosnt crash if you format it with Vista NTFS??

By: EoN

EoN — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:34:50 +0000

*Sigh* I hate it when links go wrong when you paste them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants