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Anil Dash on the iPod. Sorry, but the iPod is the only player which has a feature set that’s useful. Everyone I’ve talked to has said “Oh, my MP3 player is good”. I then ask them how they get their files on and off: “A simple drag-and-drop interface”. Fine, but simple drag-and-drop interfaces are useless when you’re doing podcasts. It needs to be a simpler automatic synchronisation. And the iPod is the only device to support files longer than four minutes long by keeping your place when you sync up. Ignore the shit in this post about headphone colours and sheep - that’s nonsense. Trumped up Theodor Adorno worship does not a decent critique make. Pointing out what features the iPod lacks does. And it does lack some. It lacks openness in it’s use of FairPlay DRM (which is nothing but a mild inconvenience, but an inconvenience nonetheless - it just adds another step when I download music to convert it to MP3). It lacks the ability to easily set playback speed on podcasts without converting them. But other than that, it’s the only usable MP3 player I’ve found.
