Sony, iRiver take on Apple

"iRiver's S10 portable player measures 1.65 x 1.18 x 0." Cant be right.. Who writes this stuff? Put your name to it!

I find it amusing (though desperately attention seeking) to read headlines that list other manufacturers as 'taking on' or 'challenging' Apple... when their offerings are, at best, sub-par.

SanDisk recently, until yesterday, had something with their Sansa player, which offered twice the capacity of the nano, at the same prices of Apple's nano. Of course, as of Tuesday, with Apple doubling nano capacity at the same prices, Sansa is an also ran...

Creative will essentially scale back their player offerings over the next 6 months, as their iPod accessory business takes off, with profits displacing the losses from their player business.

The cahllenge, really, is for 'news' sites to come up with accurate headlines that aren't unecessarily sensationalist - of course, that appears to be a lost cause with MacNN, considering their 'editors.

There are significant benefits to a product being an iPod and a Mac. An MP3 player that's not a iPod can't use iTunes, can't use media from the iTunes Store, and can't use the thousands of accessories made for iPod. A laptop from Sony that looks like a MacBook can't run Mac OS X, while a real MacBook can run Mac OS X and Windows.

Apple wins... iPod is already the defacto standard. Now that the expensive Mac "myth" is being debunked everywhere in the popular media, there's no excuse to not (at least) consider a Mac. You get two computers in one.

I too misread the title several times. The first character is a capital S (the letter between R and T), not a $. I read it to try and find out what features such an inexpensive player could actually have.

From the article this referenced...

"iRiver has not yet announced a release date or price for the S10."

WIth a size like 1.65 x 1.18 x 0, MAN that thing is slim!

And be very careful of it and yourself. I cut myself on it twice and then put my finger through it when I hit play.

I hope they fix that :)