DISQUS

Is there anything duct tape can't do? ;)

Vegas definitely makes me feel like one of the living dead every time I go, so I guess I'm not surprised that the gamblers would start turning into zombies. I just hope the town can hold them off until TAM 6.

One of the things that drew me to Chumby early on was its moddability. From what I recall, the device basically uses embedded Linux and even has a built-in SSH server. At least, that's what I had heard about it back when the first public announcements were being made. Do you know if this is still the case?

Honestly? Just more storage. 30 GB, at least. 16 is kinda pushing my current library, and the Touch is really going to shine for video, so more space will be a must.

Otherwise, it's basically the perfect iPod.

The thing about Apple is that, for all the great software they make like OS X and iTunes and others, they're a hardware company at heart. Really the software and operating systems exist just so folks have something to do with their slickly-designed Apple hardware.

Which works, obviously, or I wouldn't be happily typing away from my MacBook while my iPod recharges, but you can't really get away from it.

I think all the other stuff about Apple relying on DRM makes a lot more sense when you view it from that perspective. And actually there's a lot to be said for the approach. They do some very slick integration that kinda looks like magic on the user end but in reality comes down to simply having a very predictable environment -- one designed by Apple specifically to be compatible with other Apple products.

I don't think it's even so much that they're actively rejecting the idea of interoperability with other people's products so much as they're just completely indifferent to it. If you were them, would you bother?

More of a feature I wish iTunes had, but I could use it on the iPod, as well.

"Stop playback after song." Pretty self-explanatory, I think. WinAmp used to do this, and I used it all the time, until I finally made the jump to iTunes.