Defeated by Apple...

So How did I, Apple-hater #1, end up bending over and letting in the Apple horde?    Read on...

So now I was ready for my next video-playing device, but I didn't want something I had to use to transcode video...

At this point, I was against device convergance, and thought a phone should be a phone and a media player a media player.  Looking around at my options, I decided to go back to my old friends Creative for a device that was again billed as an "Apple Beater"...

Dr Applehater - or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone.

So here sit I, the eternal iPhone/Apple hater. Listening to a nice Krafty Kuts mix on my new 32gig iPhone 3GS. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?  Read on to see how I lost my soul to the big A!

I used to hate iPhones and Apple. A lot. I respected their design, and their user-friendliness, but hated the closed ecosystem of iTunes, and their inability to play downloaded TV shows (without conversion).  Also, the fact that I couldn't move music around to wherever I wanted it was a big problem for me.

So, my rebellion against Steve Jobs began when all my mates were getting the 1st gen iPods, and I rebelled by...