Fear mongering seems to be quite a strong - and inappropriate - phrase in this case. Posting other's experiences hardly qualifies as "fear mongering". Save the hyperbole for a more accurate situation.
Your fortunate that you haven't experienced any issues. However, I take it that you're not aware of all the problems that us iPod classic owners experienced with iTunes when that product (classic) was released last September. These new issues mirror those from last year, only they are far worse as they render the iPod useless wrt being able to sync new music/movies/podcasts. Not much fun in having a very expensive paper weight.
Did you even read the forums that I linked to? Because if you had, you would have read that there were several instances where people posted that they weren't experiencing the problems highlighted in the forum discussions. So much for "highly skewed".
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----- Original Message ----
From: Meg St. Clair <megsaint@earthlink.net>
To: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:42:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Apple iPod] iTunes 7.7 full of bull. Brand spanking new problems.
People who post on tech support forums are there because they have
problems. The people who don't have problems, don't post. Therefore,
your sample is highly skewed.
I, for, example, downloaded 7.7 the first day it was available,
version 2.0 for my Touch as soon as it was available and have had no
(zip, zero, nada) problems.
One should always have good back ups and exercise caution when
upgrading. However, there's caution and then there's fear mongering.
Best of luck.
On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Lisa Fournier wrote:
> there have been all kinds of reported problems with iTunes 7.7,
> especially
> with connecting/syncing an iPod classic/iPhone/ Touch. There are
> many reports of iPods not
> being recognized at all by iTunes 7.7. I refuse to install the
> updated iTunes until
> they fix the problem. Seems pretty severe to me.
> Here are just a few of the forums on the Apple support site that
> talk to the issue. It's been 2 weeks since
> Apple released iTunes 7.7 and still no fix...
> http://discussions. apple.com/ thread.jspa? threadID= 1601192&tstart= 0
> http://discussions. apple.com/ thread.jspa? threadID= 1601396&tstart= 60
> http://discussions. apple.com/ thread.jspa? threadID= 1604293&tstart= 0
> http://discussions. apple.com/ thread.jspa? threadID= 1593016&tstart= 0
> There have been some workarounds identified, but IMHO, we shouldn't
> have to rebuild iTunes libraries
> to get iTunes to recognize an iPod...
>
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> From: bob_vandiver <bobv@easystreet. net>
> To: AppleiPod@yahoogrou ps.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:16:47 AM
> Subject: [Apple iPod] iTunes 7.7 full of bull. Brand spanking new
> problems.
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> I am running 10.4.11 on a Mac Book Pro, latest QuickTime and of course
> iTunes 7.7 (43). I bought a few albums at the iTunes store. Upon
> downloading, some downloads initiate, then I get "error -61 You are
> not allowed to change settings" or something similar to that. Retrying
> ultimately downloads all the rest. Then I try to play them. On iTunes
> itself and later on the iPod some of the titles are skipped over, no
> sound. Which songs get this treatment seems random (per song, not per
> occurrence), some also got that error -61 earlier - but not all.
> Playing the song in column mode (in the Finder) one hears silence. On
> the iPod one song crashed the Pod!
>
> Also, when the computer is done syncing the iPod it is dismounted. I
> never had this kind of trouble before. Yikes.
>
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