Comments on: Why iPod killers are no joke

By: haydn

haydn — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:42:45 +0000

Good Article.

If I were to design an ipod killer, I would set the player aside and concentrate on designing a media/music organizer/podcast catcher and music store, utility first, and design the player around this software. When the player is unhooked from the computer, a smaller, handheld version of the persons’ home music library is accessible, intuitive, and ready to go. I don’t want to have to do tech support for my device every time I hook up the player to the computer. I don’t want unpredictability, and bugginess, or three applications in the place of one elegant solid application. If I’m subscribed to a video podcast, I’d like the player to download the program, sync to the player, and by the time I’ve poured my morning coffee, I can unhook the player and not worry if the device is able to play the video. A five minute video podcast, shouldn’t take 15 minutes of file translation, tech support, testing and re-synching to the device.

Finally, nothing has captured my attention like the ipod has. I didn’t understand it until after I returned my ho-hum creative device for an ipod classic 80g. Aside from the capacity issues, the devices are virtually the same. Ipods are continuing to be the industry standard due to quietly maintaining a high standard of quality through 5 generations of the same player.

Just as Kleenex is generica for facial tissue. Ipod is equated with all mp3 players.

By: Meditry

Meditry — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:23:14 +0000

Jonathon, If you’re looking for scratch resistance, and maybe even an easier to use, more versatile UI, I have one word, Zune, only problem for a good deal of the people here is that it’s only compatible with PC’s at this time. And none of that blind Ipod’s better crap, if loyal mac users are unwilling to research a product in fear that it might actually be better than the all powerful Ipod, so be it, but I strongly encourage that a little research be done.

By: elkay

elkay — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:14:58 +0000

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By: Ernie Gonzales

Ernie Gonzales — Sat, 20 May 2006 20:17:47 +0000

Ernie Gonzales…

let me know here and we can figure out a way of getting this to you….

By: JoAnn Castle

JoAnn Castle — Sat, 20 May 2006 20:03:25 +0000

JoAnn Castle…

The price goes to Restiffbard. The iTunes Applescript does the job exactly the way I wanted it. Thanks a lot for your suggestions though, they will undoubtedly come in handy at some later point in time….

By: Annette Kleinbard

Annette Kleinbard — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:56:43 +0000

Annette Kleinbard…

had a similar problem a while back where i wanted to split large mp3s (live sets) into parts, while there are quite a number of apps out there that can do it, i found most of them to be bloated or they required you to buy it, so i ended up writing my o…

By: Krekor "Kirk" Ohanian

Krekor "Kirk" Ohanian — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:51:51 +0000

Krekor “Kirk” Ohanian…

have spent some time converting and tagging all thee 42 hours into mp3. i was wondering if poeple here are interested in it, as I have already spent a lot of time making it IPOD compactable….

By: Thijs

Thijs — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:25:07 +0000

It’s all about form factor. If some company is going to make a music / smartphone device that actually(!) fits in my pocket and has the same ease of use, storage capacity and reliability, I’d say goodbye to the iPod.

By: 'ju:femaiz

'ju:femaiz — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:32:01 +0000

Re: proprietry batteries iPods…

Ever seen other digital device batteries?

By: Kevin Ballard

Kevin Ballard — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:29:07 +0000

I think the reason why every time an MP3 player is branded an “iPod Killer” is a joke is because it *is*. The only way for an MP3 player to have a hope of toppling the iPod is if they stop trying to “kill” the iPod and instead try and simply create the best product they can. Any player that’s branded an “iPod Killer” has failed already.