mp3 players, not iPods Options

[lbjshaq2345]

anybody have any other kind of mp3 player bsides an iPod i have an iPod mini and an iRiver player

[sadolakced acid]

You know, not all people buy an iPod "just because everyone else has one."

can you provide some reasons someone would buy one, beside that it's fashionable or looks better or the touch wheel.

iPod playlists can be built on-the-fly.

you can? aren't there limitations- like, you can't save them? i think creatives have the most versitile OTF playlisting ability, right?

[*mipadi*]

can you provide some reasons someone would buy one, beside that it's fashionable or looks better or the touch wheel.

To be honest, I think it's a stupid discussion; I find it amusing that you demand that other people justify their purchase of an iPod. Personally, I don't care what anyone else buys; I have no shares in Apple, so their profits from the iPod don't benefit me in the least. I do think the iPod is a great MP3 player, which isn't to say that there aren't other great MP3 players out there, but the iPod is a damn good one: for one thing, it's the only player guaranteed to offer full functionality and support for the Macintosh; it's small, well-designed, and the interface is simple yet elegant; together with iTunes, it offers a lot of great features, such as Smart Playlists, song ratings, contact/calendar manager, and external hard drive functions; and since the beginning, the iPod has been innovative, and set the standard for the MP3 player market.

Sure, other MP3 players are nice, I'm not debating that; I'm just tired of this "people only buy an iPod to be trendy" stuff. There's a reason why it's the most popular MP3 player.

you can?  aren't there limitations- like, you can't save them?  i think creatives have the most versitile OTF playlisting ability, right?

Nope. You can put any song on it, you can have more than one (I think at least five, maybe seven on the new iPods), and when you plug it into your computer, the playlist gets copied into iTunes.