18 Mar
2007
18 Mar
'07
5:55 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:51:31PM -0400, carmen wrote:
and of course they also differentiate on features. not
that
iRiver/iAudio's FM tuner, longer batter life, FLAC and ogg support,
line in, ability to record from line in or FM, video codecs people
actually use like Xvid, standard filesystem schema, and lower price
all combined are enough to nullify the power of Apple's
marketing/aura/distortion-field in the mind of the average
consumer-slave...
Much as I love my iRiver HP120's feature set, it suffers from a really
really bad UI. I keep meaning to try Rockbox to see if it's any
better, but I haven't had the time. And that won't help people trying
out stuff in a store.
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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com