my distaste for ipod comes from two places:
1. the consumerism fadness of it. like google, like myspace, like mtv and 'pimped out cars', these things are absurdly popular, and with very little reason. i'll give apple credit for their highly successful advertising campaign. it worked. but not on me.
and
2. iTunes. i've been a winamp user for years, and after curiosity finally enticed me to give iTunes a try, i found not only did it not live up to the standards i was accustomed to with winamp, but that i downright hated it! the interface, the organization, the supported filetypes and worst of all (and most important to me) the media library. to top it all off, i really disliked the integration of mp3 distribution sites, and other such 'peripherals' that i could not elect *not* to install. unfortunately, this consumerism too has caught on, and even winamp now has begun to embed these annoying features.
what this has to do with the actual ipod? not that much... as for the machine itself, i will say it looks robust, yet 60gigs doesn't cover my music collection, nor would i buy one at the price they sell for. so currently i use a sony mp3cd player, and it does the job well enough for me, especially considering all the money i *didn't* spend on it.
