Needham & Co. estimates that the "iPod halo" may have attracted up to 400,000 Windows users to the Mac so far this year. In a note to clients, analyst Charles Wolf observed that Apple's "key drivers" (iPod and the iPod halo effect) "continue to work". He believes Apple is set for even more growth in the future. Wolf wrote: "The iPod continued to lure Windows users into the Macintosh fold (in the third quarter). Mac unit shipments rose 35 per cent, three times the PC market growth rate."
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Member since:One thing for sure is that i would go crazy organizing my files in iTunes. I would definately use good old explorer or whatever file manager (nautilus, konqueror, etc) to organize my music.
Ipods can do that now so thats nice. I still prefer the iRiver because of its color, features (fm radio, microphone, battery life [last longer per charge, and has a longer life], firmware updates [now the ih-40 can play video files, when they were ony meant for pictures]), and of course the price. It has a more traditional design (why is everything designed by apple look like its for hippies on acid....I mean its not bad, but implanting modern art design into computer products gets....sickening)
I also like how it acts just like a hard drive so I can do a lot of things to it (defragging, disk cleanup, checks for bad sectors, partitoning, formating etc.)
The Ipod aint bad and all that, but people should look at the competition though. Its safe to say that apple does have a monopoly in this departmant, so its good to remember the competition
Member since:Personally, i like the iPod / iTunes combo because iTunes is the best music manager I have ever come across. Its simply to navigate my music while also having every feature I can conceivably wish for. The iTunes music store (the best store I've used thus far) is built into iTunes and it happens to also work on my preferred player. The iPod. I like the iPod because I can easily navigate thousands of songs with only the slightest thumb movement (rather than repeated thumb movements as is required by most other players) the iPod interface is simple, informative and very useful. I like the clean look of the iPod as opposed to other players that seem to have added unnecessary designs without reason. The iPod has more add-on devices than any other on the market so I know that I wont ever be lacking for features that other devices might have. I like the price relative to its feature set and lastly, I've come to really like the way the iTunes/iPod combo. handles podcasting.
The other players aint bad and all that, but those pople insisting on buying anything but an iPod should really look at the big picture. The iPod is simply the best deal.
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Ya, it behaves like any firewire storage device.
This is old news.