Comments on: OOOoh… Shiny! http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/ It's Latin for "Let there be light" Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: fiat lux http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/comment-page-1/#comment-707 fiat lux Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:13:46 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/#comment-707 The replaceable battery on the SanDisk is a nice touch. Skawt also has a non-iPod MP3 player and is quite happy with it, but then he also likes Windows Media Player. I'm not really looking to migrate off iTunes -- I'm invested into a fair number of iTunes tracks, and adding in the price of buying all those tracks again makes moving off the iPod platform unattractive. Woot for the power of user lock-in. Fortunately I'm OK with it. The replaceable battery on the SanDisk is a nice touch. Skawt also has a non-iPod MP3 player and is quite happy with it, but then he also likes Windows Media Player. I’m not really looking to migrate off iTunes — I’m invested into a fair number of iTunes tracks, and adding in the price of buying all those tracks again makes moving off the iPod platform unattractive.

Woot for the power of user lock-in. Fortunately I’m OK with it.

]]> By: seamus http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/comment-page-1/#comment-706 seamus Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:06:17 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/#comment-706 I lost my iPod recently, and I replaced it with an SanDisk Sansa e280. I gotta say that I like it way, way better than the iPod. The controls are better and more intuitive; you can access menus from anywhere; it has an FM tuner so you can listen to NPR; and it looks super-cool. If you've bought a lot of tracks from iTunes or you need a red player, it won't be of much use, but if you ask me Apple's market share is making them lazy. I lost my iPod recently, and I replaced it with an SanDisk Sansa e280. I gotta say that I like it way, way better than the iPod. The controls are better and more intuitive; you can access menus from anywhere; it has an FM tuner so you can listen to NPR; and it looks super-cool.

If you’ve bought a lot of tracks from iTunes or you need a red player, it won’t be of much use, but if you ask me Apple’s market share is making them lazy.

]]> By: Melinda Casino http://www.rluxemburg.com/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/comment-page-1/#comment-705 Melinda Casino Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:20:09 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2006/11/03/ooooh-shiny/#comment-705 Saw these in an Apple shop in a mall yesterday; they're quite spiffy. I was poking around for the Shuffle -- not in stores yet. <i>"Mmmm. Shiny red nano-y goodness."</i> :D Saw these in an Apple shop in a mall yesterday; they’re quite spiffy.

I was poking around for the Shuffle — not in stores yet.

“Mmmm. Shiny red nano-y goodness.”
:D

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