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1. next generation ipod (joke)

2. meanwhile there is this: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/13/1097607287777.html

the problem this thing solves are the two things I dislike completely about the ipod

1. no WMA or OGG (well the virgin player plays WMA at least)

2. closed-shop downloading system. can you say monopoly market? the funny thing is if microsoft did this everyone would scream blue murder. ironically the new wma player (v10) is much more 'open' than itunes.

if any mac-head uses the phrase "just works" I will cut their tongue out. it "just works" if you "just wanna do what apple tells you to do". just 'cos its apple doesn't excuse its proprietryness anymore than anything from microsoft or ibm or anyone else. and apple weren't there first as I've sen asserted in the recent past - creative had a hard disk player out a year before anyone ever even heard of the ipod. the ipod blows chunks - it's a coolio fashion victim's toy for the fashion conscious to flash around to show how cool they are with it. the iriver h340 for example has features a million times better than an ipod. IT RECORDS for a start. ohh but the apple has a 'sleek' minimalist design and FORM trumps FUNCTION right? wrong. Ipod is marketing and I'm well over the marketing of appearences - that's JOHN HOWARD THINKING RIGHT THERE.

and mp3 is a shit format anyway.