You’re not making a lot of sense. I don’t know anyone who buys an mp3 player because it can read Word, Excel, or JPEG files. Would anyone even want to use/read such files on a tiny screen? I have never before even heard of opening those files as a criteria for choosing an mp3 player.
Flower has said she wants to spend $100. A product that sells for $154 is not much good to her. For that amount of money she would be looking at an ipod Nano ($149)—not an ipod Shuffle and a the Nano has a crisp color screen and is a flash based player.
No one who will be listening to his/her own CD library is locked into itunes. CDs can be ripped over and over again into any format or any player one may choose in the future.
One does need itunes to use an ipod, but I hasten to add that I used itunes for 2 years before the ipod was even introduced/invented. With a good set of speakers attached to your computer, you can use and enjoy itunes and never own a ipod.
Going with a shuffle will give Flower access to the music store which—in addition to selling music—has a huge library of podcasts from broadcasters like NPR, ESPN, the New York Times, NBC News, VH1, ABC News, and literally hundreds of others. Looking for your favorite (explicit) comedy skit/show? You can get it as a free podcast at itunes Audiobooks? Itunes has them too. Ipod or Samsung? The choice is a no brainer.
All true. You might think you’re happy with ME but if you want to do things and can’t because you’re on an ancient OS then maybe you’re not as happy as you think you are. If I had my druthers I’d put you on an iMac but if you’re gonna be on Windows at least get the modern OS. Btw, the imac can run Windows now too.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/05/bootcamp/index.php
Using Win ME begs the question: how old is your computer? Sounds like you really need to visit an Apple store. 
Hmmm, where shall I begin.
First off you're a MAC guy so anything with the Apple logo you are immediately drawn to.
Second, you're trying to obscure the topic. Of course no one buys an MP3 player because it can read Word files or because you can view pictures with it I was merely pointing out that it also offered those things and that I paid $154, 18 months ago I couldn't touch an Ipod of similar resources for $154.
THAT WAS MY POINT. GET IT OR ARE YOU STILL SEEING THIS POST THROUGH APPLE COLORED LENSES? I never told her to buy the particular MP3 player I bought.
You remind me of the CPU warriors. There are those that fight to the death saying that Intel makes the best and then there's another group that says AMD builds the best. Of course this is in the PC world not the MAC world so you might not be familiar with it although some new MAC's have Intel processors.
Please, allow me to state this again because you seem to be missing it.
I NEVER TOLD FLOWER TO BUY MY $154 MP3 PLAYER, I WAS POINTING OUT WHAT MINE OFFERED AND HOW MUCH IT COST. IN FACT SHE DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT HER BUDGET WAS UNTIL AFTER I TOLD HER OF MY MP3 PLAYER.Please try and follow me, in order to download songs, no matter where they come from (i.e. Limewire, Bittorrent or itunes) you have to use Itunes in order to put the songs onto an Ipod, that is being locked to Itunes. I don't see how you can say it isn't.
When I want to put songs on my MP3 player all I do is highlight the song and copy it to the MP3 player, it couldn't be easier. I've used both so don't try arguing this point.
I love your rationale on the podcasts too. lol You're a piece of work, exactly like the Intel AMD warriors.
