The Video iPod is a great little gadget. I've had one for about 5 months now, and I think it's the first gadget ever I've used for so long without getting bored with it. It does, however, have a number of shortcomings, one of which is this brokie right here.
I mostly use my iPod on the train, when commuting to and from work. Typically, I'd watch a couple of relatively long shows, and then attempt to pick something to fill up the remaining time until my stop - and that's one of the things you can't do with the iPod interface the way it is.
To see how long a particular clip or an audio track is, you have to start playing one, which defeats the purpose if you're looking for something with particular length. This little brokie makes the last couple of train stops quite annoying.

Everyone has seen these - fused plastic packaging containers for small products, such as CompactFlash cards - my most recent experience has been with an iPod case. These packages are pretty much impossible to open without a knife or industrial-strength scissors, and of course those often aren't available.

It's especially bad for packaged small multiple items - by the time you finally rip the package open, the amount of force that is being applied sends contents all over the room, quite often never to be seen again.

I hate how porn is so unprofessionaly done lately, I don't want to see flashes while wathing a video, you can't tell me that a multimillion dolla rindustry cannot afford a fast lens. I also dislike the lack of choreography in a threesome where the second girl seems to be sitting by herself all the time as opposed to joining the action.

Ah, podcasts. Podcasts are great - fresh content every day on a variety of topics. The iPod, though, doesn't let you browse through the variety to pick something to listen to. Many podcasts have a summary of each episode, sometimes it's quite detailed. Daily shows often pile up, especially something like NPR's Most Emailed Stories - each episode is around 30 minutes long, and contains stories on a variety of topics. Each story is descibred in the episode summary, but in order to see it on the iPod, you have to start playing the show - then you can navigate to the "Lyrics" screen and read the summary. Often you're interested in maybe two stories out of everything included in the episode, and this brokie makes is quite annoying to pick something interesting to listen to.

Those who get their coffee from a deli on the morning commute know this one well. For some reason, the vendors always put napkins on TOP of the coffee cup, effectively rendering them useless - whatever coffee seeps through the lid gets the napkins wet.

We all have cellphones these days, and all of them have voicemails. Voicemail systems typically have two greetings - one you record, and the instructional one provided by the system. It's the latter that is in most cases way longer than it needs to be - it lists every possible option every time, which is especially frustrating when you just need to leave a quick note and have just waited for 10 rings for the voicemail to kick in.

iTunes can automatically download podcasts you subscribe to, providing fresh content on a daily basis. That's all nice and cool, but it really wants to keep a copy for itself. Audio is one thing, but video podcasts, especially long ones, take up quite a bit of space. If you never watch them on iTunes, and just use it as a means of getting stuff onto your iPod, all that space is wasted.