Hou Hou Hou....(it should sound like a kind of Santa Claus)...

I read all the posts today....my first thought was..uhmm...how do you dare to compare an state of the art machine like the iPod with absolute crappy items like the Archos JB or Nomad JB or Rio Rot (this last one is a bit less crappy maybe, don't know).

Both are MP3 players and an Honda Civic and a Porsche Boxter are also both cars. Of course you can put a 300 HP engine in a Honda Civic but it's still not a Porsche (to the critics of Hard disc space).

The interface of the iPod is superb for me. Of course it could better, but it's much better still than the competitors. You should take a look at this product thinking that it was developed for Apple users in mind. Apple users don't usually need to know about complicated configurations, registry tricks, dll's and memory conflicts or installation problems of stupid stone age [censored] OS like guindows.

You have to see that Apple take "care" of the normal user, that one how doesn't have a clou about all the stuff you speak about here everyday, man wir freaks for them. The real people out there just want to use it. So you buy your Apple Machine with OS X which have iTunes, you put a CD convert it to MP3, plug in the iPod and it syncronises automatically, and it works fine!!! that's it, what's wrong with that?

'normal' users, don't give a [censored] if the code is open source? of if the wheel makes danm 'clicks' or not? or it is 20 [censored] gr heavier than the older version? or a 1/7 of an inch wider or whatever it just pure simplicity and design and what they want. Guys, Apple sold 150.000 of this machines in the first three months!

iTunes?...iTunes is for me one of the best MP3 tools I ever used, and you know why? because is damn easy! and does everything I need and pretty well. Yes, I like it and very much. So as I love most things from Apple, they are beautiful, easy to use, well design and they work. I just wished the Empeg and Emplode convination could be so good as the iPod and iTunes convination which I find superb.

What you need three days to install a bloody Firewire card on a guindows machine? what you use stone age Win 2K or XP? well, do you really care about quality? or do you care about quantity? I personaly change from guindows to Apple 5 months ago and I wished I did it 10 years ago!