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Thanks to Karan from GeekRamblings.com for this.

Yes the nano was cool. And yes iTunes 5 was awesome. But you know what ruined it for me? The Motorola ROKR. We all waited and hoped that the ROKR would bring something new to the world. And indeed it did. unfortunately, it was for the worse. And now, humble readers, I am here to tell you just why the ROKR sucks. So without further adieu, I bring you:

The top five reasons for why the ROKR sucks:

1) Ugly as a three legged rhinoceros: Let us start with the basics. The phone looks like a fake metal brick. It has shiny stuff all over it, and ribs that serve no apparent purpose. Not only that, but the iTunes button looks like it was just smooshed in there. Like it doesn’t belong.

2) You call THAT an interface?: Is Nokia the only company that can get this right? The interface is slow, with at least one second of a delay when you try to do anything at all. Whilst it tries to look like an Apple GUI, it isn’t. It just isn’t. And the whole resuming a song thing? Steve Jobs couldn’t even get it to work during his Keynote. Smooth, Apple. Real smooth.

3) I want more songs!: The phone may have the same amount of storage as the smallest iPod shuffle, but you can only fit 100 songs no matter what you do. Why? Reader, meet DRM. DRM, meet reader. Apple doesn’t want to undermine their sales, so no more songs for you! Unless of course, you want to splice two or more songs together, completely ruining your listening experience.

4) Stereo Sound? Psh: That’s right. That amazing stereo sound? It sounds like crap. That’s right. It sounds worse than mono. It doesn’t work because the speakers are too close together. So unless you want a mammoth sized phone, kiss your stereo sound goodbye. Not only that, but with headphones, the sound is reversed. Right plays through the left earbud, and vice-versa. You’ve got to be joking! Whilst you can just swap earbuds, I can’t figure out why this bug wouldn’t have been squashed beforehand.

5) Realtime copying: These songs, for all intents and purposes, copy in realtime. That’s because they travel over outdated USB 1.1. 1.1! You have got to be joking. It took one guy more than an hour to copy a hundred songs. No one has that amount of time to waste. No one.

So please, don’t get a ROKR.