And right on the heels of the new iRiver flagship device, Apple is introducing their own full-color photo-viewer and digital jukebox, the iPod Photo (which to me sorta implies that they will continue releasing non-photo iPods for the next couple of product generations … i mean otherwise, why name it differently?).
So how does this stack up against the iRiver?
I felt really bad about not having waited, until I saw how much they were going for. US$500 is waaay over what I would pay for a portable jukebox, even if it was sporting a 40-gig hard drive. I mean, seriously, if you had 40 gigs worth of music, you may as well just leave half of them at your desktop, because you are so not gonna be able to scroll through all that, let alone listen to it.