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More positive spin... (Score:1)
Long boot time? My 4GB nano boots in about 3 seconds from cold, which is truckloads faster than the earlier players. Battery life is pretty much in line with the advertised figure, modulo a lot of futzing around along the way. (That is, hitting "shuffle" and play achieves around the suggested number of hours. Sure, it's not *typical* usage, but it's not entirely unreasonable either. Perhaps it really is those headphones doing the damage? I'm using Sennheiser PX200's, which do a nice job whilst being very portable and pretty robust.)
I think it's fair to consider the nano (well, any iPod) as a 90% solution: if you're wanting to do things at a file-based level rather than an Apple-specified db level than it's probably not the player for you. As was noted, if you surrender to iTunes then things just work for 90% of what most users want. But if the iTunes Store integration grates enough to have you abandoning iTunes then half the package (ie, the software component) is neutered and I can see that it'd look like a rather ordinary device.
Paul
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