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To: Don Green who wrote (57629)	10/5/2006 7:22:24 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

I also feel portable 60-80 gig players are really "over kill" for most users, including myself. I think this is a key issue in the music wars. Don, you have a fairly unbiased viewpoint on these devices so it was interesting that you ended up settling on a device with what you see as having serious shortcomings. Some people (digital group) are comfortable having all of their music stored on their computer or ipod. Partly because they can take their ENTIRE music collections anywhere. There are some problems with digital in this area though. Finding what you want and the issue of loosing your files or having a new type of file come along to replace the type you currently have. Some people (portability group) are not comfortable storing all their music on computers and iPods. Most of these people buy iPods or similar for the lightness and portability. ==== I love the digital group. Yesterday I bought 80 CDs out of a collection of about 400, from a guy who said "I never listen to my CDs anymore. Digital is inevitable." Of course he meant that everyone will convert all their music to computer files, it's inevitable and CDs will die. Surprisingly enough (not to me though) he said that his passion for owning music is not as important to him now that he's all digital. I sometimes wish he was more right. It's VERY difficult to find people who are selling their entire CD collections. I got some very nice bargains yesterday and wish I could find more. I've recently changed my choice from the nano to the shuffle because I desire portability and have no interest in being able to store a large amounts of data on an iPod. Interesting this split in the market. I think this paradigm will become increasingly clear - the middle area will disappear. The question is which will dominate? the digital group or the portability group. I think the portability group will dominate, but on this front cost becomes more and more important. The digital group will want more and more functionality so profit margins will be larger here.