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Originally Posted by batman_007

I know that everybody is hyping about the iPod, but I don't really understand why. I mean I agree that it is an awesome MP3 player, but it isn't really special compared to other MP3 players. I think that the extra money being put into buying an iPod is simply for the iPod name, and not extra things that you may get. I mean, why not get a Rio, or Dell?

That is exactly how I feel about it...

I believe it all is like the Sony Video Camera thing(I'm a huge video nerd, so I relate to it a lot). In the early 90s, the video cam to have was a Sony because they had the best technology in video and were unmatched. When Mp3 Players came out, it was that way with the iPod in my opinion, at the beggining, iPods were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. Now that there has been a bit of time, all the other brands are catching up and the technology isn't so foreign to them. Today, almost any brand of video camera is going to be great, but Sony still charges more because they're Sony and many people do not know that a non Sony video cam is just as good, if not better. A dell or a rio or any other brand is the same as an iPod, iPod was just first so they think they can still charge more than anyone else. It's just hype in my opinion and I'm getting the Dell...