I know I've got an iPod I like it; but I don't see it as hugely different from the other hard drive MP3 players, like the one I had 2 or 3 years ago. Well implemented concept, not seminal product, surely; if Compaq had built the (snaps fingers, scratches head: what was it called) player designed for them, it could have done the same, surely?
It's different enough that people who, a couple of years ago, when I talked to them about the Hanjo PJB100, gave me that look which says "Liam's doing his weird geeky enthusiasm about something incomprehensible again".
The PJB100 did the job, but you have to be a geek to get it.
Now, the iPod is...
small
sexy
cute
cool
smaller than the devices it seeks to replace
blessed with an awesomely simple UI - vastly better than Creative's, frex
comes with a really fast interconnect
pleasingly free of knobs and sockets
partners with a wickedly simple piece of software, iTunes, which is...
a player
a ripper
a library manager
and also in itself pretty and easy and accessible, which none of the Windows ones are - I think Apple knows this, which is why it's happy to sell a MusicMatch-dependant Windows iPod, knowing it won't hurt Mac sales, it's a sodding £500 hardware ADVERT for Apple design.
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I don't know.
But it is.
It's different enough that people who, a couple of years ago, when I talked to them about the Hanjo PJB100, gave me that look which says "Liam's doing his weird geeky enthusiasm about something incomprehensible again".
The PJB100 did the job, but you have to be a geek to get it.
Now, the iPod is...
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thanks!