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To: Don Green who wrote (42218)	1/11/2005 3:38:30 PM
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I see no reason to buy this over any of the many very capable flash players on the market...this one doesn't seem to improve on anything Looks. It looks cool. Magnitudes cooler than the Rios and Irivers and whatevers. Brilliantly minimalist and stylish in comparison. Simplest of cool. Plus it's an iPod. Everyone knows iPods are cooler than the rest. Cool is everything in the portable digital music market, not reason.

To: Don Green who wrote (42218)	1/11/2005 5:08:52 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

I'm confused, does the shuffle allow me to have playlists or not. My cheapie RCA player that I bought a year ago has no playlists, you just flip through the songs. I don't mind if I have to download the playlists from my PC, because the shuffle doesn't have a screen but I need to flip between playlists I create somewhere.

To: Don Green who wrote (42218)	1/13/2005 10:10:21 AM
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"Whilst other flash-based players may have extra features like FM radios, Apple has kept the cost of the player down very low, whilst maintaining the cool style and brand cachet of the iPod that has made it the number one gun. When Creative says that its products have more functionality and better features, they're not wrong. What Creative doesn't have is the big name, the reputation and the style. Whilst the Shuffle will undoubtedly be in every lifestyle magazine next month, from GQ to Cosmopolitan, the same cannot be said about Creative's flash-based player, which simply doesn't have the same degree of cool. Form over function? To Creative's chagrin, it appears that there might be a lot of takers. Apple's on a roll at the moment, and bizarrely, it's going to take a lot more than better products to halt it. Our view: sure, it's simple and, sure, it lacks some basic functionality. But will Mrs INQ go nuts for its white cuteness? Oh yeah." Excerpt from: theinquirer.net Feel free to add Rio, Iriver, etc. to Creative in the above.