From personal experience...

With an ipod, what you lose in functionality, you gain in reliability.

Not sure if 'functionality' is the right word really, but with iRiver and Creative mp3 players, you can plug them into any computer and they pick up as an external drive, which meant you could just drag and drop things onto it.

Now, you can't do that with an ipod...well, you probably can if you do some special jiggery pokery with it, but if not, you are stuck with putting stuff onto it using itunes or similar software (I use winamp).

Anyhoo...I had 3 irivers, the hard drive failed on all of them, same with the 4 creatives I had. Maybe I'm just unlucky? Maybe I shouldn't use them to stir my tea? I dunno, but the ipod has lasted me 2 years now and hasn't caused a fuss.

Posted By: Hertz van Rental on December 16th 2008 at 20:31:39

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ipod or MP3 player?? (General Chat) - Great Barrier Teeth, Dec 16, 20:03:02
- The Sony NWA series are the best quality sound I've ever heard in an mp3 player. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 21:45:31
  - The new ones are drag-and-drop in Windows Explorer (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Dec 16, 21:54:23
    - Well, that would improve the experience no end. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 21:59:01
- Get an iPhone (n/m) (General Chat) - theguru, Dec 16, 21:01:33
  - don't you need to be on the right network for that tho? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 16, 21:05:09
    - You need to be on O2. But they are todally spiffingly tiptoppermost ossum. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 21:40:50
      - yehbut (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 16, 21:53:07
        
        So do you email people.... (General Chat) - conker, Dec 16, 21:59:28
        
        Yes, but my work remove that (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 16, 22:01:49
        
        I often see that and feel like adding (General Chat) - conker, Dec 16, 22:02:43
        
        To compete, the email client in the iPhone automatically adds "sent from my iPhone" to the (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 22:04:43
        
        I got an iPhone one the other day (General Chat) - conker, Dec 16, 22:12:28
        
        Well, I read my email on mine, and sometimes reply to email on it (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 22:16:07
        
        No idea. You'd have to ask someone in the industry like Dutch Stephen. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 21:57:09
        
        stock shortages and queues don't mean that (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 16, 22:01:11
        
        Well, no, taken in isolation those don't signify massive sales. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 16, 22:14:00
- From personal experience... (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Dec 16, 20:31:39
  - Interesting (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Dec 16, 20:56:13
- iPod (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Dec 16, 20:25:37
- moobile foon (General Chat) - blindasabat, Dec 16, 20:05:35

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