There ’s nothing I enjoy more than a healthy debate . So you’re able to imagine how proud of I was earlier this week when I click over to Chris Breen’siPod Blogand learn that my colleague had denounced me and my fellowMacworldeditors as wishy - washy cowards for confer Eddy Awards on both the iPod nano and the iPod with video . Or if we may quote Chris ’ ( uncharitable ) words directly :
Babies …
gravely , I understand Macworld ’s desire to honor the two iPods , as they ’re both desirable machine . But each stage a exceptional stage of growth in the iPod personal line of credit . One iPod summarizes the best of the iPod ’s technology and another looks to the iPod ’s future . Whenchoosing the year ’s “ good ” model , [ Playlist ] pick out what we considered to be today ’s most complete iPod experience — the iPod nano .
Now some people might read those hateful Logos and have themselves a effective war cry or swear payback at the office Christmas company or simply post obscene , anonymous alphabetic character to the Mac 911 desk from a bastard e - mail chronicle . Not me — I simply shrug my shoulder joint and move on . Because I am mature enough to realize that Chris is as entitle to his notion as he is to live in a delusional world where one and only one iPod may be recognized as a top product of the year .
Thenanois , quite clearly , just a brilliant euphony participant . Astonishingly compact and with a striking user interface , it will help you guide the league in covetous looks from passersby when you take it out in public . If you want a mobile euphony player that slips easily into a air pocket , have heads to turn , and sport handy characteristic like the power to show off color photos , the nano is clearly the best product out there .
That ’s the thinking of most editor around here , anyway . I ’m already on the phonograph recording as preferring the iPod miniskirt . But I got outvote .
TheiPod with videois remarkable not just for what it is — a medicine instrumentalist with much larger mental ability than the nano and , oh yeah , that whole video - playback capability thing — but for what it represents — the arrival a portable multimedia player that boasts iPod - like simplicity . Forget for a consequence about some of this 5th - contemporaries iPod ’s limitations — the paucity of video recording content at the iTunes Music Store , the rigamarole you have to go through to get video of your own on the twist . When portable video players are as omnipresent as cell phones in a few days , this will be the iPod that started that ball wheeling .
And if that does n’t merit a statue that some Apple executive can use as an oversize paperweight , I ’m not certain what does .
