Quote: Originally Posted by Simon True, but (at least in theory) there's no guarantee they will always allow you to burn to audio CD at all. I don't think it will come to t…

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon Unfortunately that sounds like a typical M$ strong-arm approach. And as porieux already indicated, is this entirely legal? Anti-trust? I hope …

Quote: Originally Posted by itguy05 However, just to be safe, I burn them all to an audio CD just in case. Yeah, I'm not as paranoid as it may sound in this thread so i don…

Quote: Originally Posted by Helmling I think Apple's already fighting a technical battle, but against their own standards. The iPod has to be certain things--simple, elegant, c…

Apple's probably gonna release the 6th gen iPod to compete with M$.

This morning I was reading a Seattle Times article about a 'tech analyst' called Enderle who reported on Zune and the iTMS-like service that goes with it. Enderle says: Quote: …

Hopefully this will drive Apple's prices down to compete with Microsoft and its competitors. It might also force them to come out with something like the new touch-screen video ip…

MS knows exactly what it's doing. they know, in the short term, they will not knock the ipod out the box; they say they're in it for the long haul (they keep saying this!); thats t…

I don't think we should be laughing at this at all. MS has had a long time to sit and watch who succeeds and who fails. Granted it's been mostly Apple succeeding and everybody else…

Xbox a success?? By what measure?

Quote: Originally Posted by Ryan1524 They can probably market this along with every single Windows carrying PC sold out there. I don't think they could get away with that. I…

Sure, we all say: bah, no one else has come close to apple's dominance in the music player and online software, we may even think it a little bit to. But face it, a lot of us are a…

Anyone have any past or current experiences with cases for this particular thing. Or any recommendations? I currently have a iPod nano.

Something tells me that this is not a particularly good idea.

Same here, which is why I plan too buy a shuffle. But.... there have been many articles on this, and they do seem to work. I just want personal opinions on certain products, rather…

It's called "Otterbox" http://www.otterbox.com/products/ipod_cases/

There is a guy in my neighbourhood who swims with one of these with his mini. He says it works well for keeping water out.

i once jumped into a pool...only to realize 10 min later that i had my shuffle still in my pocket. so i jumped out the pool, stuck the shuffle into some purified water, let the su…

My mini has gone through the wash a few times.

I've seen lily pods for sale in Borders. They are supposed to be waterproof cases for iPods for swimming and other water sports. I've never tried them.

Let me just be sure that I understand what we're talking about. You want to actually swim while listening to the iPod? Even if you had a waterproof case, you'd still need some sort…

I believe that some of them come with waterproof headphones ( not sure which ones).

ilounge.com has reviewed some waterproof alternatives...too lazy to find em though, sorry.

This video claims to show a new iPod running a mobile version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9teB3cgZGcw My gut feeling says fake, but that's just me.

You're actually wondering if it could be real? Anyways, here is the Lounge thread.