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Sony's "iPod killer" Fails to Draw Blood
Mr_Silver writes "Walter Mossberg (of WSJ fame) managed to review the new Sony NW-HD1 and was distinctly unimpressed. The upsides: it's smaller, lighter and has a battery life of 20 hours. The downsides: goodbye MP3 - hello ATRAC3, slow upload (and converting) times and the confusing user interface on the walkman, PC software and the music store. When will someone pass Sony the cluestick?"
The Rio Karma requires that you convert all your files to some lossy DRM-encumbered format before it will play the files back. The Rio Karma is also unsupported by Mac OS X, the most consumer-friendly version of UNIX available. Last but not least, Creative is one of the most consumer-hostile companies in the world, frequently using the DCMA to intimidate white hat hackers.
Could someone pass character_assassin the cluestick, please?
MP3s are obsolete. Do any of these things support Ogg Vorbis files?
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Ogg is the wrapper. It is more proper to call it Vorbis. That is the codec.
I know the interface isn't as slick, which I said. However they still function as needed, you don't see that many people with them complaining about them. The simple fact of the matter is the iPod has become a fad, not because it's a totally superior product. And if you're spending that kind of money you should me more aware of such things.
Not everyone wants a software interface anyway. I know I don't and most people I know don't either, and some of them have iPods.
Yes, the iPod has a better interface, but I've also seen plenty of them lock up, including some I've used. I've never seen an iRiver lock up and maybe one creative.
Presently here, but not there.
To the off topic moderator ... truth hurts huh.
Words to men, as air to birds.
I'll go further - I could have easily imagined it as the next generation of floppy disk.
Imagine a minidisk in every PC, Sony. You poor misguided bastards.
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