When I browse for music on my iPod, the only thing I'm interested in is "artist." I don't care abut genre, album, or whatever. I never use those. The settings menu allowed me to customize my main screen so all that was there was "artist" and I could skip all the extraneous bullshit.

I recently got Ate Neneng the latest generation of my iPod, and as I was teaching her I realized it would be easier if we started out with artist instead of going through menus to get to it. So I went to the settings menu again, but this time I realized something: They took the option out to customize the main screen.

Why does Apple consistently do this? With each generation and upgrade, I swear to god their products become more and more useless. I understand that by removing options you're simplifying the system for the layman, but I don't think having the ability to change how your screen works is that complicated. I can name other shit, like how in iOS5 for some reason you couldn't look at lyrics anymore on your iPad. When was this ever an issue? Who at Apple HQ sat down and said, "You know, people are getting confused whenever lyrics pops up. Maybe we should just take out that option altogether. It's now simpler." Why the fuck would you then allow me to input the lyrics in iTunes to begin with if I can't even look at it on my mobile devices?

Seriously, whenever people talk to me about Apple's ingenuity in design, I just want to punch them in the face. If you don't want to be able to do anything, then I guess they're great at design. Yeah, their design is so fucking amazing that no one would even think of changing their iPod screen at all.