Comments on: HDD MP3 Players: Round 1 http://www.devindra.org/tech/2005/03/07/hdd-mp3-players-round-1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:55:36 -0700 hourly 1 By: Tenken http://www.devindra.org/tech/2005/03/07/hdd-mp3-players-round-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Tenken Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:44:02 +0000 http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~devindra/blog/?p=2#comment-3 Well the strictly flash-based players seem to only be serving a small market right now. The inexpensive ones (~$100) allow people to jump into the portable audio game easily, this is the main draw of the iPod Shuffle. On a tangent of my own, I find it amazing how Apple was able to market the Shuffle. What other company could accomplish that?! "Life is random" is just the best excuse for the lack of a display, and people eat it up! As you can tell, I'm not an Apple fan ;) The big thing in portable players right now are the microdrive based ones. I find it amazing that the 4GB iPod mini sold so well at $250 when the 20GB Ipod was $300. This trend towards portability is interesting in its own right. Personally, I'd rather have a hard drive player that held alot, instead of sacrificing space for portability. On that rare occasion that I exercise outside, I find the flash-based players to be infinitely more useful than a microdrive one. I would rather not have to worry about the drive heads crashing and whatnot. I think I may discuss this further in my second article, still not sure what to cover there... Well the strictly flash-based players seem to only be serving a small market right now. The inexpensive ones (~$100) allow people to jump into the portable audio game easily, this is the main draw of the iPod Shuffle. On a tangent of my own, I find it amazing how Apple was able to market the Shuffle. What other company could accomplish that?! “Life is random” is just the best excuse for the lack of a display, and people eat it up! As you can tell, I’m not an Apple fan ;)

The big thing in portable players right now are the microdrive based ones. I find it amazing that the 4GB iPod mini sold so well at $250 when the 20GB Ipod was $300. This trend towards portability is interesting in its own right. Personally, I’d rather have a hard drive player that held alot, instead of sacrificing space for portability. On that rare occasion that I exercise outside, I find the flash-based players to be infinitely more useful than a microdrive one. I would rather not have to worry about the drive heads crashing and whatnot.

I think I may discuss this further in my second article, still not sure what to cover there…

]]> By: Iceman http://www.devindra.org/tech/2005/03/07/hdd-mp3-players-round-1/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Iceman Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:13:42 +0000 http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~devindra/blog/?p=2#comment-2 on a related, but different subject, it seems like products for flash drives are coming up faster than products for mini-disks... but this should reverse, right? i can't wait for the cheap and decent phone / organizer / mp3 player / camera thingie comes out. so far, O2 XDA2s and <a href="http://www.palmone.com/us/products/smartphones/treo650/" rel="nofollow">Treo 650 </a> are all i have looked at on a related, but different subject, it seems like products for flash drives are coming up faster than products for mini-disks… but this should reverse, right?

i can’t wait for the cheap and decent phone / organizer / mp3 player / camera thingie comes out. so far, O2 XDA2s and Treo 650 are all i have looked at

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