My mother ignoring my advice bought a ipod because of that same line. She hated it. She also found it useless for what she had purchased it for. The local library had books on tape patrons to listen to/download. Turns out they recorded them in wma. So no. I call shenanigans on that line of reasoning.
My question is why did your father buy an ipod when there are competing brands on the market with better features and a open framework that you can put your tunes on any way you see fit. That and support soooo many more formats like ogg, flac, wma, etc. Or is it now your stuck with apple since you bought all your tunes in…
"I personally couldn't give a shit about this mentality of 'oh it's so over complex, all this shit everywhere, just let me play music I don't need it to make coffee etc'... it's a music player for goodness sake. We play music to make ourselves happy, to enjoy it." "Just embrace it man, install iTunes, let it do it's thing…