phew...finally...cool....um, well, sort of....i guess...well, ok, um...wait a minute...
what we're talking about here is what appears (i mean, actually physically looks) like a competitor clone - but without the high end OS and UI - that supports 100 tracks. oh, and no OTA file transfer. um...whoopee.
seems the (which does indeed imply singular) value-add of this hybrid is its ability to sync with a popular proprietary desktop app to transfer tracks acquired through a popular proprietary on-line service and wrapped in a popular (well, to the extent such could be the case) proprietary DRM solution. ok. so that part's kinda cool, in that it's new, but, well, that's about it. and trust me, it'll be a short-lived novelty - there are or will shortly be alternative solutions and service offerings and/or third party clients or emulators that allow competitive devices with superior functionality and extended memory to deliver an equal - nah, greater - experience.
oh well, i guess there's something to being first outta the gate... 'cept, even that's not the case... i'm really not meaning to knock the parties involved, it's just that i think my expectations were simply way too high.
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