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An anonymous reader writes "MP3 Newswire just posted its fifth article of its 'iPod Killers' for the holidays list. Most interesting are a bluetooth unit from Aiwa, Sony's Vaio U, and an Ogg/photo/FM broadcast record, flash unit from SAFA." See also I, II, III, and IV.
Not to be nasty, but nobody really cares about OGG. 99% of the market of these things only cares about 1 format: MP3. Can it play MP3? Kewl, that's what I want. Nobody will switch anytime soon especially since most kids' friends players / PCs wont' play OGG either, so swapping OGGs (or any other new format) is harder than swapping plain ol' MP3s.
I'm not saying OGGs suck, but the reality is that MP3 aint broken, so there's no need to fix it. My 192 kbps MP3s sound just fine and I have more space on my player than music to stuff it with.
reading all this orgy of quasi-bacchanalian religious fervour makes me never, ever want to buy any product made by apple ever for the rest of my life. I like macs, the ipod is an attractive *gimmick*, but this creepy act of prostration, this cult-like tongue-probing of Steve Jobs' and Jonathan Ives' (he's just a designer, a competent one, but by no means the best) nether regions makes me feel queasy. I'd prefer to marry a christian fundamentalist and spend the rest of my life hearing about 'Jesus, my best friend' than get involved in your self-abasing prostrations before the altar of a public corporation. look at yourselves, don't you feel embarassed?