james.miller said:
that was my first reply to you. of course that implies that other players can do more and do it better. what else would form over function imply? in laymens terms, it sacrifices in area's in order to achieve what it was set out to do. look good. thats why nano's are so thin, thats why ipod video's are so thin ect. thats common sence and everybody else whould have realised what i implied right there and then.
Who is this everyone else you speak of eh?
The purpose of an iPod is to play MP3s. It does. It doesnt try to do anything else, its not trying to play radio, oggs, flacs, ect;, its designed as, and functions as, an MP3 player. Thats what it does, and it does so very very well.
i dont see what i have to admit? how is syncing a player in itunes and then browsing through id3 tags any easier than copying your rip straight to the player and browsing by folder structure? yes they are easy to use, but your spinning that and saying other players arent easy to use. different quite possible, but not in any way hard(er)
This is amazing me, it really is.
How is doing all that easyier than just plugging in the iPod to update your music?
I havnt said that others are harder, ive said that iPods are the easyest to use.
when i said you were naive
...because we are all mind readers. How were we to know that being called naive was actually an abriviated way of saying all that? Who knew!
Dont talk rubbish. Trying to back track and justify your claim of 'all those points you've ignored' being contained in one insignificant and none related comment like that its complete nonscence.
I cant belive your even trying that one, i'd have expected more from you than that.
and you replied by telling me i had one critisism
if apple brought out a player that did everything my d2 did (same size screen as an ipod video (but better quality), 50 hours battery life, upgradable memory, exceptional sound quality) and looked as good as an apple player, id buy it in an instant. there, that's the gauntlet laid down. where's my bias now?
The bias is still there. Because you are dismissing what is a perfectly good MP3 player based on points that cant possibly be proved, at the moment.
20 hours/60Gb/good sound quality is what the 60Gb iPod offers. In a small, flat, none obtrusive package. It plays MP3s well and has more battery life than most people would need anyway.
Admitedly the Nanos dont offer the same capacity, and cant be upgraded, but neither can most MP3 players.
And as good as you say the D2 is, it still doesnt offer the ease of updating that Apple does.
If the D2 worked with iTunes, it would be the perfect sub 10Gb player.
Love that with Thunderbird and thanks to Songbird's being based on Mozilla its easily transferrable.
