Well the future will surely hold such options as discussed in your article, why wait???? There is just as cool an option right now. "Radiolover" + iPod = Heaven
http://www.bitcartel.com/radiolover/
There are lots of little programs like "radio shark" and other gadgets that will let you turn streaming web content into nice little content to zip over to your iPod for on the go listening.
The web has a growing amount of good listening content, some even at 128kbps Get yourself at program, and start listening!
www.novaplanet.com
www.KCRW.com
One more comment on the number of iPod users. I own 4 iPods, and on almost every iPod forum I read users explain how they've had 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G versions, and warrenty replacements multiple times, and such. If Apple has sold 7 million iPods, how many individual users are there really? Maybe 3 million?
Well, the IPod halo effect worked on me. After purchasing a silver Mini in January, I bought a 12" powerbook 2 weeks later. Apple wasn't even on my radar as I started my laptop search, but after holding the iPod in my hand in the middle of a store that sold apple computers, the lights came on for me.
Yes, the whole apple package is what closed the deal for me, but as a first time mac user who had never even been in a apple computer store before, it was the iPod that opened the door.
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