When iPods first came out, I actually wanted one.  Now, I hate iPods and most things Apple.

Analyzing myself in a faux psychological way, it probably all goes way back to when iTunes was bundled with Quick Time and would take up most of my tiny hard drive’s space with its lengthy, many megabyte install.  Then I’d have to do a lengthy, many megabyte uninstall just to get my hard drive space back.

Some time later, the Shuffle came out and the iPod was hyped almost more than I could bear.  ”Oh, I don’t need to see the screen anyway, this is a brilliant idea!”  Hey, I don’t disagree on that point; a player that does away with non-essential features for a cheaper price, great.  However, it wasn’t really a cheaper price.  Other players from other companies offered the same capacity and same size with a screen and for the same price.  So really, people were paying the same amount of money for less features, yet still calling it great.

Coming around to present times, iTunes has gone DRM-free, yet I still can’t purchase music without having to install the behemoth that is iTunes, whether I use an iPod or not.  Yes, behemoth.  Compared to the tiny, unobtrusive thing Amazon makes me install, iTunes is Godzilla.  Sure, iTunes does things, such as actually play music, but I already have a program that plays music just fine and doesn’t take minutes to open on an old laptop.

It’s for all that, plus a few miscellaneous reasons, that I call it ebil and I can’t bring myself to say that I actually like the iPod Touch, even though the custom skinned thing you see up there belongs to me.  In fact, I refuse to even acknowledge I own one.  It’s not an iPod; it’s an eBiLpod!

By the way, the whole point of this post was really just to show off the skin that I custom ordered from GelaSkins; the rant is a bonus.  Consider the cute case under eBiLpod from Smile Recipe a second bonus.