{"id":712,"date":"2004-06-10T23:13:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T23:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/06\/ipod_killer\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T23:13:27","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T23:13:27","slug":"ipod_killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/ipod_killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipod Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the iPod is, what, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2001\/nov\/09ipod.html\">two and a half<\/a> years old now? My big question is why no-one has quite launched the iPod killer. Yes I know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iriver.com\/\">iRiver<\/a> is pretty damn good and about a hundred quid cheaper than the equivalent iPod, but why aren&#8217;t there cheap Taiwanese or Chinese versions around &#8211; I mean really cheap? I&#8217;m amazed that there aren&#8217;t. Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/story\/0,3605,1234825,00.html\">Guardian Online<\/a> lists a couple of other entrants in the market, but we&#8217;re not talking mega-cheap. I know there are loads of Apple evangelists out there who can&#8217;t understand why I wouldn&#8217;t want the overpriced, yet beautiful simplicity of an iPod, but I want something with a big hard drive that plays mp3s and is relatively cheap. If I want a personal CD player &#8211; there&#8217;s the full range to go for, but essentially from 19.99 to 199.99 they all play CDs. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also slightly disturbed about the quasi-religious fervour with which some people talk about their iPods. I was reading the new issue of the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordmagazine.co.uk\/\">Word magazine<\/a>, but as a magazine with several pages regularly devoted to all things iPod, someone really ought to tell them that &#8220;other music players are available&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the iPod is, what, over two and a half years old now? My big question is why no-one has quite launched the iPod killer. Yes I know that the iRiver is pretty damn good and about a hundred quid cheaper than the equivalent iPod, but why aren&#8217;t there cheap Taiwanese or Chinese versions around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}