5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod

TommyH1000 writes "CNet has posted an article with five reasons not to buy an iPod. " The article really just shows the major shortcomings with the iPod (Battery, Cost, Moving Parts etc) and gives several alternatives. A great summary of the major things going on in the portable MP3 player market.

Comments

Re:6. No Ogg Vorbis!

[dabadab]

Yeah, that was my first thought too :)

Five Rebuttals (You'll hafta RTFA)

[superdan2k]

1. If six hours isn't enough, take an airline power adapter with you and plug it in.

2. Sure it's cool. I ride mountain bikes and BMX bikes with my iPod turned on, and I can't remember it ever skipping. Chalk this argument up to FUD.

3. Boohoo. Quality costs money. Live with it. Show me another MP3 player with similar size, features, a decent UI/controls, and equal storage space that costs less.

4. What percentage of the owners of portable MP3 players are DJs that want to record their sets? DAT is lossless and is an industry standard, which makes it considerably better for recording your live sets.

5. Huh? Who cares? I'd be willing to bet that between 60 and 75 percent of the music on iPods everywhere is stuff that was downloaded, with 24 to 33 percent being ripped from personal collections, and the remaining 1% purchased from an online store. (On my iPod, which currently contains 4303 songs, 27 of them were purchased at the iTMS. 0.6%)

I guess the question is, how much did Samsung and iRiver pay for this article?

Solution is obvious

[zakezuke]

I agree the artical is skewed, though the gent does have a valid point, even if it's hidden under *don't buy this product*. What would be spiffy is if there was an option for the IPOD to replace the onboard HD with a flash drive, for cases where you want the benifits of flash media. Either that or have it accept flash media.

Apple typicaly being turn key technology, isn't likely to support such a drive replacement.