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Plus, my iPod gets me chicks. In droves. All Creative's devices give me are a weird little rash where the belt clip touches my skin. Ew. I think that's pus.

Microsoft's WMD-DRM solutions have one major limitation; it's Windows-only!

How weird, me too. As soon as I stopped using Creative Tech's mp3 player and switched to iPod the pimples in my butt disappared.

Ah yes, 'beleaguered.' Beautiful word. They should put it as one of the magic words...

They also lack the "Designed by Apple in California" writing.
No one will be able to match Apple's industrial design for any of their products (iPod, iMac, Powerbook, iBook, Power Mac, eMac, Mighty Mouse, ect..) until someone can copy the "Designed by Apple" marking.

Ziggy -

No, that's not pus. That's its natural color.

Feh. Despite testing, now the link I posted doesn't work. Anyways, it was a photo of a Zen from staples.com, and it was really, really green.

All I have to do is leave that iPod shuffle hanging around my neck when I hit de streets and de bitches are all over me. It's like a chick-magnet or something. And you can hold a couple of condoms in de little cap for de lanyard. Yeh-heh-hesssss.

When I once walked around with a Rio instead, everyone thought I was gay. Not only that, I couldn't even get the doggie hookers to give me de time of day. All those bitches expect an iPod at de very least.

Creative, my ass. "Repulsive" is more like it.

Sum Wong Ding Dong

You should try using a Creative with Napster music as a condom.
Workss every time.

Suggestion: Stop belaboring "beleaguered"

I note repeated use of that word in headlines referring to Creative. It's getting stale. Could we throw in an occational "stalled," "floundering," "struggling," "gasping-for-air," "barely alive" or "withering" once in awhile?

<<Beyond lacking iPod's "cool" factor and Apple's marketing muscle, beleaguered Creative and the other player makers all lack two of the biggest reasons for Apple's iPod success: Apple's cross-platform iTunes music jukebox and the iTunes Music Store which seamlessly integrate with the iPod.>>

The one thing EVERYBODY (except Apple) overlooked was the importance of a fully integrated package. If Apple has a strength, this is it. They've been doing it since 1984 with the Macintosh computer.

Apple was able to dominate digital music because it doesn't require developers for the platform. Music is music. How it is compressed is a non-issue. Except for MSFT's WMA and Sony's A-Trac, iTunes and the iPod runs them all. In other words, MSFT cannot control what goes on music players. Without that control, MSFT is subject to market forces, and those forces are screaming that they want seamless integration that works, something that MSFT has never been able to offer.

Its game over man.

let's all thank Steve Jobs and Apple for the iPod by giving him a nice donation so he can afford to eat

One other small issue most people seem to ignore is that Mac users are on the bleeding edge of technology, have some disposable income, and are more than willing to pay for great products. As such, they are a leading marker on where the rest of the world will be in a year or two, once the rest of the industry gets a clue and follows.

Five bitches I got.

That's funny. Every fag in West Hollywood has an iPod shuffle hanging around their necks or around their arms. The only Rio users we've ever known were inbread hetero men.

The iPod is warping the minds of it's users (otherwise known as iPeople), rendering them incapable of communication and destroying brain cells. Why talk when you can inject yourself with another dose of musical disharmony through the syringe of the iPod? iPod = iCrack!!!

Another key element is the fact that there are sooo many third party products for i-Pods

i-Pods+i-Tunes Store+i-Tunes Software+Third Party products/accessories = Untouchable.

iPods are a trendy and expensive cry for approval.

Like designer clothes or German cars or a nice home or having children?

Thumper,

I don't disagree totally, but as many times as the pc pundit/marketing world tossed "beleaguered" in Apple's direction in recent years, it's only fitting that that fine word get tossed back in their faces as much as and as loudly and as garishly as possible.

MDN is only doing its part to even things up, which, in the grand scheme of things, means they've only got another 354,322 times to use the word "beleaguered" to describe a PC competitor before they're even halfway close to thinking another word would do.

One other small issue most people seem to ignore is that Mac users are on the bleeding edge of technology, have some disposable income, and are more than willing to pay for great products. As such, they are a leading marker on where the rest of the world will be in a year or two, once the rest of the industry gets a clue and follows."

Not when it comes to desktops. Take for example, 7800GTX/GT & Radeon 9000 series, all PCI express only...no AGP (and therefore not available for Macs) . Bleeding edge? More like dull edge.

You mean X900 series.

iDon't: You sound like you have the brainpower of a pickle.

Or a Dell PC.

Oi, BeenThereDoneThat - it's the 'Leading Edge', not 'Bleeding Edge', you 'Leading' plonker.

"Let then die!
...I'll never forgive them...for the death of my boy."

Sorry, just kind of slipped into a Captain Kirk quote there.

Apple's design has always been 'cool'.

The amount of design awards Apple has recieved are countless - they are a unique company.

What makes them unique?

Quite simple: They make the qhole widget - software and hardware, with simplicity and inntuitive ease of use, this gives them the edge over all the other companies.