Error (-36) Firewire SUCCESS at last!!!

Question

After giving up with the error (-36) problem I finally relented and bought a Firewire cable.
I now have an iPod with 4217 songs and 664 pictures - 24Gb free.
Finally, phew(!)

Answer 1

I know you don't care, just having fun with ya
I forsee Apple dropping firewire support for all the ipods in the future. Why? It isn't always available on all all systems (PC's that is), and Apple want's to sell as many of their products to as many people as possible (profit). The most common interface out there is USB. If I remember correctly, Firewire was Apple's "baby" when it came out. If anyone else wanted to use it, they had to license it from Apple.
Sony picked up on it quickly and called it i.LINK, why? Because it was the fastest interface at the time and digital video needed the fastest interface because of the amount of data. Then other manufactures of video devices adopted it. Speculation is that this is why USB was develeoped, others didn't want to pay Apple for licensing.
But since then USB has improved it speed to a burst 480 Mbps (planning is in place for faster speeds), and is being expanded to the wireless arena.
One draw back with USB (some say) is that it designed for other types of prepherials (keyboards, mice, etc) and not just storage. Others like the idea.
But the point is, USB has market saturation. It's on 99.9% (ok, this a guestimate) of the new systems out there. If Apple wants to market and sell USB devices, they need to make sure their devices work with 99.9% of the systems out there. Other manufactures do it on a regular basis, but why is Apple having such a hard time?
If you look at the Nano forums, all the same issues that show up here for connecting to PC's still exist there.
Apple is NOTORIOUS for ignoring issues, bugs. Saying "It's not our fault, it's theirs." or just simply ignoring it, hoping it will go away. They like to develop new things for the "Wow" factor (I think you just have to look at Steve Job's personality for this behaviour being transcended through the company).
But if Apple realy and truely wants to compete in the market it needs to accept they no one is perfect, including themselves. They need to sit down and try to figure out and fix these issues. Sure they have the market share of PMP (portable music players) with the iPod, but that doesn't excuse them from accepting and fixing things.
Personally, if I done my homework (like I normally do) I wouldn't have bought the iPod. I would have searched for another product that has a better track record with PC's. Sure it wouldn't look as nice as the iPod, but it would work as advertised out of the box. Remember the old saying "Beauty is only skin deep"?
So why don't I sell this product and get something else? I'm stubborn, and feel that if I spend high dollar on a product, it should work as advertised.