Another iPod Competitor

rael9real writes "NOMAD has intoduced a new player. It has USB 2 and FireWire (finally), and supports WMA and MP3. It has a 20GB drive like the high-end iPod, and supposedly holds more music because it supports WMA (though why someone would want to use WMA is beyond me). It *is* cheaper than the iPod, though. Looks like a definite competitor. Maybe it'll drive iPod pricing down." Update: 10/14 21:21 GMT by T : Note that the listed specs for the player mention only "USB," not USB 2.

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Another thing...

[MattCohn.com]

Anotherng that will hold the iPod is it's exclisive Macintosh support. Now, I'm not trying to troll, but if they wanted the iPod to gain market share they would have it support all of the major platforms, much like how Microsoft is developing Office for OSX. Now, if they wanted to only use the iPod as a tool to bring people to Macintosh exclusivly, then it was a good idea; however they should have accepted that as more products became availible they would gain in popularity.

Re:Thanks for ignoring me qjkx

[Vote Libertarian!]

Lossless audio is encumbered by patents, meaning it's illegal to use it. The only way to fix these damn copyright problems is to vote Libertarian. A Libertarian government will let companies do what they want, and the country will be governed by market forces. That means some companies will make audio players that can play copyrighted music. No DRM for us!

Vote Libertarian!

Re:"Zen" and the art of what-its-missing

[Busty Amateur]

You and the formidable mass of 10,000 other geeks will surely make an impact on a society which has embraced the MP3 format. And it's not like OGG offers lossless compression, either, so you can't even claim that advantage over MP3s.

So stop trying to be cool by endorsing a format which will never be accepted because it doesn't offer technological advantages.