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Undertoad · 12-17-2007, 05:46 PM

iTunes is for iPods and it is basically useless with any other device.

What people actually want is something they can plug in and it will show up as a drive, that they can then browse and drag and drop their volumes of mp3 files onto. It's a not-iPod. I've had several not-iPods and they all sound and work great. My current not-iPod is from Sony, whose current Walkman is an excellent device with superior headphones. Sansa and Creative and a few others also have nice not-iPods.

Not only does a not-iPod do more than an iPod, but it also costs much, much less.

I do not believe the Zune qualifies as a device that anybody actually wants, and the fragile 30GB hard drive approach now seems less interesting than an unbreakable 4GB or 8GB flash memory device. The trend is towards larger phones and smaller music players.

12-17-2007, 05:46 PM	#6
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	iTunes is for iPods and it is basically useless with any other device. What people actually want is something they can plug in and it will show up as a drive, that they can then browse and drag and drop their volumes of mp3 files onto. It's a not-iPod. I've had several not-iPods and they all sound and work great. My current not-iPod is from Sony, whose current Walkman is an excellent device with superior headphones. Sansa and Creative and a few others also have nice not-iPods. Not only does a not-iPod do more than an iPod, but it also costs much, much less. I do not believe the Zune qualifies as a device that anybody actually wants, and the fragile 30GB hard drive approach now seems less interesting than an unbreakable 4GB or 8GB flash memory device. The trend is towards larger phones and smaller music players.