I decided I wanted to get a new MP3 player recently. I’d sort of been wanting one for a while and hadn’t really seen anything I really liked.
I love the iPod (any of them) from a hardware standpoint. (Except for their proprietary connectors, but they’re not alone with that.) They’re beautiful machines. But Apple continues to insist on using them as a marketing platform to promote (force you to use) iTunes. The default way to load songs on them is iTunes, the only way to buy music online for them is iTunes, they force you to use the same computer or it wipes the player clean, nasty DRM, etc. Continue Reading…