MP3 players: iPoll: Why did you get your first iPod?

Why I don't have an iPod

I don't have an iPod because I own a PSP that works just like a iPod. It can play music, watch movies, view picture, browse the internet, play video games, use RSS feeds all from that one device!

(NT) neato! My PDA does that too! (NT)

Just like a Harley Davidson

Way over rated and under performance. I would never own anything apple makes!

Apple Bah-Humbug

I found it interesting that as of this posting, the non-ipod users make up 48%. I think portable music players are useful, but I have a smart phone and can call, surf the internet, check email, watch videos, instant message, was well as listen to music (with bluetooth headphones... no wires!). Why carry around 2-3 devices when one will do?

I also much prefer Windows Media Player to ITUNES, I can't stand that clunky thing. I would also hate to be forced to use one format to sync my music player. I haven't really liked anything Apple has put out, it IS overrated.

I'm rather turned off to the whole online music store thing as well... its so much easier to have an actual cd or music file and not be required to go through DRM when you need to move it around.

Won't own one? C'mon.

I was surprised to read that 48% of c/net responders say they won't own an iPod like the comment here.
This kind of thinking, for whatever reason, including hating Apple as a proprietor, seems like a lot of older people I've known who will not get a computer.
get on the technology wagon and enjoy yourself, I say.
I am an older person, 64 this month, and bought my first and only iPod nano last year so I could have portable stories and music and because I was feeling left behind culturally.
Yes, I think owning an MP3 or an iPod is a cultural issue.
At first I felt as challenged by this slim black technical miracle as I did by my first Mac. I think it was designed for 8-year-old size fingers. But it is now such a comfortable part of my life.

So, don't buy music....

So, I don't either. I just won't buy music from the iTunes store, or download anything free. I don't like the DRM Apple uses, and all the limits I get. Just buy the CDs! I Own an iPod, and an eMac,(and an old iMac G3) and love them all. Apple products rule, just sometimes there thinking doesn't.

Never had and never will have an IPOD

In reply to: iPoll: Why did you get your first iPod? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

Apple and Microsoft are so full of themselves they make interfacing with other products difficult. Tying products is a monopoly strategy. Word perfect translates and saves to windows but not vice versa. Ipods have proprietary music and proprietary connections. I got a Creative Zen Vision M based on CNet reviews and see no reason to rethink my decision. I don't like to pay tribute to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I support the competition.