<quote>Ipod is one of the best mp3 players.</quote>
Says who? ipod just like any other piece of hardware made in China totally lacks any innovation!!! Look, ipod is not the first music player or even the first hard drive based player nor is ipod the best player in the market.
Ipod simply copies the feature set from korean players like IRiver and wraps a shell around it and call it their own. It doesn't even have half the feature IRiver has, no wma playback, no FM radio, no expandable storage, no swappable battery, locks to apple's itune store, bad audio fidelity. Basically it sucks bad!
Again, just like any other chinese product, it is a copy and not even a decent one at that!
Besides, now a days everyone carries a cellphone and why is there a need for a separate piece of hardware just to play back music?
Comparing ipod with my phone, my phone does everything ipod does and plus a ton more. The phone has 2 gb of music and it can expand further just simply by swapping in a new sd card. Plus, it has GPS, WIFI, camera, and I can watch any of my dish's 400+ channel on the go, on my phone with silky smooth frame rate and very good quality. What can ipod do again? just place back mp3 and choppy poor quality videos?
Come on, people, wake up!!! This is 2006 not 1996! Don't be herded like group of sheep by Apple's marketing hype or China's grand fasade.
Don't believe me? Just wait till later this year or early next year when Apple releases 'IPHONE' (ipod with phone functionality) and ships it from their chinese slave labor factory and call it innovation!!! What a ripoff! Apple should've been brought to the court for patent infringement since we could't bring China to court!