200gb Hack for iPod Nano

romka1 writes "For people who think their Nano doesn't have enought space for their music there is a hack walkthrough to get 200 gigs on your Nano. Warning some assembly required" For some reason this tickled my funny bone this morning. Enjoy.

Yup...

[rovingeyes]

funny how I felt the same way when I read it [slashdot.org] on a lazy Thursday afternoon.

Re:Yup...

[Doctor Memory]

Me too, when I submitted it a week ago....

  Ipod Nano 200GB mod 16:57 Wednesday 05 October 2005 Rejected

Re:Yup...

[Zeph]

Not to mention, it was discussed in a sub-thread 1-2 weeks ago, which is just as much coverage of this sort of (admittedly entertaining) news deserves. I'd go and find it, but I've wasted enough time with this article already.

Dupe Bot

[Mulletproof]

Didn't you know that it's a script that accepts and rejects your stories based on keywords, the status of your slashdot subscription and a random accept/reject flag? Obviously you either forgot to subscribe, spam the proper keywords or just plain failed the randomly scripted check.

Only after all that does it go to a live reviewer to be duped ^_^

Re:Dupe Bot

[OrangeTide]

you just need to write a bot that submits the article to multiple accounts at once. and hopefully you'll get a whole selection of editors and one of them could approve it. I suspect this is how slashdot gets so many dups.

Re:Yup...

[Pharmboy]

You've got to admit, this is borderline "news".

I would respectfully disagree. "News for Nerds", to me, includes How-To articles. The fact that the modification has no practical application is not important, since few would attempt it even if it did. It DOES however, jar some imaginations, and gets people thinking about how things work. I won't do this mod, but I didn't know how easy it was to hack an IPod before this article.

What it DOES show, is that the guy who did this was pretty damn smart and also

Re:Yup...

[Basehart]

What's next: "mirrormirrordot.org - solving the mirrordot.org effect"

Only 200GB?

[Yocto Yotta]

Why stop at 200GB? You could use a 500GB drive and have 150% additional capacity with zero gain in size. I'm a little disappointed that the nano cases won't quite fit anymore though. As the article states though, this is one mod any nano owner cannot do without.

Re:Only 200GB?

[Ford Prefect]

One of my aims in life has been to construct a properly redundant RAID array of inexpensive disks - namely, floppy disks!

Floppy drives are really cheap at the moment, so it shouldn't be too difficult to build up a decent amount of storage. Also, it should be possible to build a custom interface so that the whole assembly can be connected to one of these modern iPod things - I'm guessing you could add several hundred megabytes of storage in this manner and still have something fairly portable.

Any thoughts? I'd really like to get this project off the ground, so to speak!

Re:Only 200GB?

[croddy]

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm [8k.com]

Re:Only 200GB?

[Rycross]

Sorry someone beat you to it. [8k.com]

Re:Only 200GB?

[general_re]

...a properly redundant RAID array of inexpensive disks...

You mean "a properly redundant redundant array of inexpensive disks array of inexpensive disks"? Judging by your post here, you're well on your way to insanely redundant levels of insane redundancy....

Re:Only 200GB?

[jacksonj04]

"Properly redundant RAID array" would be fine though, since RAID is the technology. It's like "ASP Page" actually turns into "Active Server Pages Page", but that's OK because RAID is only the technology.

Re:Only 200GB?

[CrazyTalk]

Hmm RAID Array of Inexpensive Disks. So you want a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Array of Inexpensive Disks. Now THAT is redundant!

Re:Only 200GB?

[SatanicPuppy]

Yer math is a bit off. 90/200 is right...for a 200 meg drive. But for a 200 gig drive, it's 90/200,000 (counting 1000 megs to the gig, which is wrong), which equals .00045 cents per meg, which means one meg in floppy cash is equal to 466 megs in harddrive cash.

So a 200 gig drive made of floppies would cost about $42,000 (1 meg = .21, .21 * 200,000)...A bit more than twice the price of a 200 gig hard drive.

Re:Only 200GB?

[DFarmerTX]

Thanks Google Calc:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2490+%2F+200+GB+in +dollars+per+MB [google.com]

-DF

Re:Only 200GB?

[Angstroem]

Why stop at 200GB? You could use a 500GB drive [...]

Because it's an iPod, not an iPorn.

Screw the Nano.

[mopslik]

I've always wanted an iPod Kilo.

Re:Screw the Nano.

[Infinityis]

Apple Headquarters Raided

Cupertino, CA (AP)

In response to recent news of the latest iPod developments, federal agents raided Apple Headquarters as part of an international drug bust. During the raid, 10,000 iPod Kilos were recovered. The contents of these white blocks have proven highly addictive, especially to teenagers and college students. What most students fail to realize is the dangers involved in being a regular 'user'.

"Many of these kids turn the volume way too lound and actually damage their ears" one federal agent said, on condition of anonymity. "It's horrifying what this company tries to push off as 'harmless fun'".

During the bust, executive ringleader Steve Jobs was arrested. It is believed that he abused his power in trying to control other markets.

An RIAA spokesperson was available for comment: "It's great that they caught this guy--he was trying to regulate prices on our goods. Not only was he selling highly addictive material, but he used his influence to try to brainwash his followers into believing that it's OK to pay only $0.99 per song. Now that he's gone, we can start charging fair market value for songs."

For concerned parents, please be aware of the following signs that your child may be using iPod Kilos:
--a thin white line going up to each ear
--difficulty hearing quiet noises
--an unsightly bulge in your child's pant pockets
--during normal conversation, your child prefixes normal words with the letter "i" as in "eating iDinner", "going on an iDate", and "driving an iCar"
--using jargon associated with iPod Kilos, such as podcasting, iTunes, or Apple

Re:Screw the Nano.

[karnal]

--an unsightly bulge in your child's pant pockets

And here I thought my boy was just taking after his old man!

illegal warez?

[dmf415]

Note that the 200gb capacity enables you to store about 50 000 pieces of music. If this capacity is filled with illegal "warez" mp3s, you can be fined up to 75 000 000 USD. (204 800 megabytes, 4 megabytes per song, 10 songs per CD, average CD price 15 USD).

Who else besides the author has 75 million handy?

Re:illegal warez?

[gunpowda]

The whole point of excessive storage in a device is comfort. People like to have way more than they'll ever use just for the sake of it - Gmail is a particularly good example.

Don't forget that iPods don't just have to store music - I'm sure as capacities increase we'll move towards higher quality, even lossless music files as a standard.

More than I'll ever use?

[Demon-Xanth]

My gmail account has some 827MB worth of crap on it. I'm filling it at pretty close to the growing rate.

Remember that 1GB HD that you'd never fill up?
The 32MB of RAM that was workstation levels?
The fast 14.4k modem?

Re:More than I'll ever use?

[terrymr]

I still remember my 32MB hard disk.

Re:More than I'll ever use?

[Tim Browse]

Pah, I remember this [guyswithtowels.com].

(Bloody kids! Get off my lawn! etc)

Re:illegal warez?

[iphayd]

Would it be a bad time to mention that all recorded (and heard) audio is by definition lossy?

There are plenty of sounds that we do not record, because we are not supposed to be able to hear them. However, I know of people that say that recordings sound different because the high tones are missing completely. This is on analog recordings.

Re:illegal warez?

[Chris Pimlott]

Only if you're recording from an analog source. There's a good deal of music these days that is produced entirely from digital sources.

Re:illegal warez?

[dfn_deux]

ZING! Give that man a frigging cookie!

Re:illegal warez?

[StarsAreAlsoFire]

All audio is by definition digital. The question is, at what sampling rate?

Give me an analog recording mechanism and I'll tell you why it is really digital.

Re:illegal warez?

[cdrudge]

Ok, I'll bite. Old phonographs used on a Victrola. Please explain to me where the "digital" portion comes into play?

Re:illegal warez?

[Nick Harkin]

Well, I guess if you go down low enough, the electrical signals sent to the brain are digital, but that's getting pretty picky, pretty picky indeed.

Re:illegal warez?

[aminorex]

Neurons fire in spikes of a curiously complex wavelet format which occur at continuously variable intervals. Where's the digital in that?

Re:illegal warez?

[Nick Harkin]

Ah, but as we live in a quantum world, at the very core level there is either a particle there, or there is not, and therefore it must be digital.

Re:illegal warez?

[StarsAreAlsoFire]

What is the smallest feature that can be picked up by the needle running over the surface of the phonograph?

What is the minimum energy required to activate the crystal who's resonance is providing the grove-to-sound conversion? (basically the same question, from a different angle)

Also, what is the smallest feature which can be cut *into* the phonograph, by the recording device?

And finally, what is the smallest physical structure which can be supported by the recording media? Which is to say, how small of a

Re:illegal warez?

[aminorex]

> all electron energy levels are in multiples of the plank energy

not all photons comes from changes in the exitation state of electrons in an atom.
any time you accellerate charges, you get photons, and charges can be accellerated
with continuous forces. electron shell structure is discontinuous because it has
to accomodate a standing wave according to schroedinger's equation, not because
energy comes in atomic units. please do not confuse cause and effect.

moreover, this does not address the continuity of

Re:illegal warez?

[aminorex]

> all electron energy levels are in multiples of the plank energy

to clarify my comment (should have proofread):

this is true in the sense that Pi is a multiple of 2. electron energy is equal
to frequency times the planck constant. but frequency varies continuously.

Re:illegal warez?

[StarsAreAlsoFire]

About 10^-33m

eh? The atomic radius of a silicon atom is about an angstrom (110 picometers, 110*E12 meters) across. I rather doubt that the cutting mechanism, whatever it may be, can cut the substrate crystal a billion-trillion times finer than that.

Re:illegal warez?

[Grotus]

He just jumped to the smallest length possible, the Planck length. You pretty much asked for that, since you mentioned quantum mechanics.

all recording is lossy

[gad_zuki!]

>Would this be a bad time to mention that all digital audio is by definition lossey?

Wait. What makes "digital" lossy but non-digital non-lossy?

Pick any analog method of recording and duplication. Its lossy. Now toss in playback equipment, speakers, ears, etc.

I don't see how your neo-luddite comment applies nor why it should be modded up.

Arguably, digital methods are non-lossy over time considering current analog recordings (tapes, LPs) over time simply disintegrate causing all sorts of loss, while digital data can be reproduced without loss over generations and onto different digital media thus avoiding the aging problem. Copy that Office 2000 CD all you like, after the 8th generation you arent suddenly going to lose spell checker. Same with digital audio. Now copy that audio tape 8 times and tell me its not lossy.

Re:all recording is lossy

[the_wesman]

forget playback, forget the imperfections in the equipment, just think of this in purely theoretical terms for a moment....

when you have a sine wave it is continuous and smooth - now picture a digital representation of that (for this example, we'll talk CD-quality - 16-bit, 44.1KHz) - in the digital representation, you don't have a smooth curve, you have a stair step (I'm not sure if you've taken calc, but think of all those 'area under the curve' problems) - the sine wave gets samples 44,100 times every se

Shannon Sampling Theorem

[DrJimbo]

Your argument is compelling, intuitive and dead wrong.

The Shannon Sampling Theorem [wikipedia.org] states:

When sampling a signal (e.g., converting from an analog signal to digital), the sampling frequency must be greater than twice the bandwidth of the input signal in order to be able to reconstruct the original perfectly from the sampled version.

To put it into term that you can understand, if your ear cannot detect frequencies higher than 22.05 kilohertz then a sampling rate of 44.1 samples per second can perfectly reproduce any sound you can hear.

Re:Shannon Sampling Theorem

[DrJimbo]

Your argument is based on jumping around between three different domains:

• Mathematics
• Physics
• Engineering

You raise the problem of quantization error without mentioning signal to noise ratio. In the real world the signal to noise ratio is never infinite in analog systems. If the quantization errors are random and are well below the noise level in the analog parts of a system then they can be treated as a small component of the analog noise and they don't significantly contribute to any imperfections in

Re:Shannon Sampling Theorem

[anethema]

Wrong. You can perfectly reconstruct a 22.05khz sine wave sampling at 44.1khz.

You can NOT accuratly reconstruct a 22.05khz square wave with a 44.1khz sampling clock. Look up nyquist's theorum.

Re:all recording is lossy

[hackstraw]

Wait. What makes "digital" lossy but non-digital non-lossy?

This whole thing is getting weird. By definition, all recorded music is "lossy". In fact, the best recording gear simply makes more pleasing alterations and distortions than the lower quality stuff. If they were to simply transfer the soundwaves completely "losslessly", then there would be no difference in equipment whatsoever, it would all be exactly the same.

Now, the difference between "lossy" and "lossless" encoding techniques of an _already r

Re:all recording is lossy

[aminorex]

By *definition*?

What about my new recording system that encapsulates the performance in a space-time bubble and reconnects its starting time with the point at which you press "play"?
Huh? What about that, then, Mr. Smartypants Webster?

Re:illegal warez?

[halivar]

The fine is $100,000 for each offense. That's a grand total of $5,000,000,000. That's 5 BILLION dollars.

Copyright law sucks.

Re:illegal warez?

[RatBastard]

And what about using it as a USB drive? Or they want to use Apple Lossless format?

And why does everyone assume that if you have more than X gigabytes of music you must have stolen it all? I have 17GB in my iTunes library out of 21GB of potential (if I hadn't deleted the songs I didn't like) music. Where did this all come from? 95% from CDs I own that are sitting in my living room (minus the odd CD that only had one song I liked on it and sold to the used CD store). Of the rest most have come from either iTunes Music Store, EMusic.Com and a few from artists websites. How the hell could I have done this? Easy. I've been buying CDs since 1987.

I find the knee-jerk assumption that large storage automatically means theft offensive. Take your "you must be a thief to want this" attitude and ram it up your ass.

Re:illegal warez?

[Puk]

You're being conservative. If the works are registered (and pretty much all commercial works are), you can get statutory damages up to $30,000 per work. If they treat each song as a separate work (easy to argue), then using your math, that's $1.5 billion. Of course, if they decide you willfully infringed, the cap goes up to $150,000 per work, or $7.5 billion. For reference, Apple's current market cap is 40.62 billion.

Not saying they would get this -- the court has discretion -- but that the law very clearly

Sophia has inspired us all

[Ingolfke]

"There's nothing like adding an extra 196 gigs to my iPod Nano so I can listen to all my favorite British Invasion bands." -- Oscar Wilde.

It's good to see that more and more people are realizing that the Uncyclopedia [uncyclopedia.org] is the true source for knowledge.

Re:Sophia has inspired us all

[interiot]

Except that it goes down every time someone links to it from Slashdot. :( How long until Google donates money and machines to Uncyclopedia?

Re:Sophia has inspired us all

[Pulzar]

Most of Uncyclopedia's stuff is like 'The country of Nigeria is famous for its 70s glam rock music. It was recently visited by George Bush, the Queen of Sweden.

Oh, come on, look at the Nigeria [nyud.net] article... It's nothing like what you describe. Here's a good quote from that page:

...Nigeria has an extensive technology sector. The biggest business sector in Nigeria is online financial re-allocation. Many wealthy countries such as Britain often have large sums of unclaimed money. Nigerians are typically employed

Like the Black Widow

[merkhet]

Much like the black widow, after the battery life of the Nano completely drains, the Maxtor Diamond will attempt to eat the iPod Nano for sustenance

/.ed: Oh My God, They Killed Uncyclopedia!

[ettlz]

You bastards!

Re:/.ed: Oh My God, They Killed Uncyclopedia!

[nazsco]

hehe, i'd mod you up, but since i have no mod points, i will earn some karma :)

coral cache:
http://uncyclopedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wiki/Ipod_Na no_200gb_Instructions [nyud.net]

Macroscopic

[brokenarmsgordon]

An iPod Macro, just what I've also been holding out for!

welcome to last week

[illtron]

Apparently someone at Slashdot has invented time travel and failed to post about it. Or maybe they traveled into the future and posted about it then.

Re:welcome to last week

[A beautiful mind]

No time travel here, just plain ol' /.

Time travel would be if slashdot posted news RIGHT AFTER something happened. THEN we should start asking questions.

see also...

[FuriousBalancing]

12 minute battery hack for iPod Nano!

Next hack for Nano

[Ingolfke]

Does anyone know of a hack to get thet battery life on the 200Gb Nano up from 6-minutes? I'm thinking maybe a car battery could be used for power. Any thoughts?

Re:Next hack for Nano

[ZachPruckowski]

Your best bet is reversible computing, so that you don't use any actual energy, or failing that, some sort of Zero Point energy source, as it would be pretty much limitless. Or you could just buy the power adapter and charge it for an hour after every song.

MacAddict show how

[alfredo]

this month. Check it out.

Raid

[zerobeat]

I think I'm going to wait for a Raid hack...

Still Waiting

[Seumas]

In all seriousness, size is the only reason I haven't bought an iPod. I bought one in 2003 and gave it away by the end of the year to a coworker. I don't want to just carry a few songs with me. I want to carry my entire collection. And not just MP3s and AACs, but OGGs, too. Theoretically, I would like to store and listen to all of my music on a single device. I don't want to store 100% of my collection on an external drive, plug it into my laptop, connect the ipod to my laptop and copy of 20% of my collecti

Re:Still Waiting

[xgamer04]

I want to carry my entire collection. And not just MP3s and AACs, but OGGs, too.

Good luck with that OGG thing. Apple's been ignoring us since forever.

Re:Still Waiting

[rock217]

Because its a good idea to store all of your (song) data in ONE PLACE, because it will NEVER FAIL.

Re:Still Waiting

[mrm677]

Gave away your iPod to a co-worker because of size, huh? Was she at least a DD and did you get to touch?

Re:Still Waiting

[Pope]

So, wait, 60GB is "only a few songs?" That's a bit ridiculous. Good luck trying to manage that with any sort of efficiency.

I think Uncyclopedia needs this upgrade

[saskboy]

It seems Uncyclopedia forgot to upgrade their server with a 200 Trilobyte WAN connection. You'd think they'd put their own good advice to use and avoid the Slashdot effect?

Re:I think Uncyclopedia needs this upgrade

[j_cavera]

200 trilobyte [wikipedia.org] connection? I've heard of sneakernet, but those things have got to have a horrific latency.

Re:I think Uncyclopedia needs this upgrade

[Rorschach1]

My God... it's full of arthropods!

Re:I think Uncyclopedia needs this upgrade

[merlin_jim]

a trilobyte (sp?) is an ancient aquaeous spider.

a terabyte is a thousand gigabytes

Re:I think Uncyclopedia needs this upgrade

[merlin_jim]

I know I'm gonna catch some slashdot nazis on this...

yes trilobites were not spiders.

But horseshoe crabs (their modern look-alikes) are more closely related to arachnids than arthropods... this according to my high school marine biology teacher and never substantiated with fact so YMMV

Re:I think Uncyclopedia needs this upgrade

[Blakey Rat]

Do you think that maybe Uncyclopedia, a HUMOR SITE, would purposely confuse two words for comedic purposes? ... nah.

sure

[myukew]

Photoshopped from ArsTechnica. Remove if sued. [uncyclopedia.org]

Coral cache

[rock217]

Coral Cache [nyud.net]

Site already slowing down!

[nubbie]

Google cache!
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:i22oAfgJYvgJ:u ncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_200gb_Instructions+ &hl=en&client=firefox-a [72.14.207.104]

Portability?

[rock217]

Its a shame you lose some portability needing to power the drive and all, I would have liked to see a nice car battery attatched supplying the DC 12v.

site slashdotted

[Chubby_C]

can't read... don't own a nano anyway so it doesn't matter too much; just wanted to feed the curiousity. my biggest question is, and always has been: Can Slashdot be slashdotted?

Re:site slashdotted

[FinestLittleSpace]

How the hell can MORE people visit slashdot FROM links on slashdot?

RIAA and iTune store

[anandpur]

RIAA will be happy to sell you 200 GB of songs, think how fast they will get rich.

But everything is on player piano rolls.

[crovira]

The RIAA has sued EVERY maker of ANY new technology. And they've kept up the senseless, relentless assault until one of their existing or future clients figures out a way to make money doing it. They don't care about who's progress is being retarded or even how many people get hurt.

Thee **AAs are in, exactly in, and ONLY in, the business of stopping progress. They have nothing else to sell. And they are selling it... If they weren't getting paid, they wouldn't be doing it.

The **AAs have nothing else to sell

Stupid me

[paladinwannabe2]

I thought this was a serious article for 5 whole seconds. I feel stupid now.

Other iPod Hacks

[wehe]

There are many other hacks for the Apple iPod family [repair4player.org] available already. From the first generation iPods as well as for the iPod Shuffle and iPod mini. You may also find links to hacks for accessories like cables and headphones [repair4player.org] and batteries [repair4player.org].

120GB Archos

[meehawl]

The old Archos players [rockbox.org] are bulky, but they do go to 120GB when you drop in the latest Seagate 2.5" drives. Pretty sweet. It's nice being able to add $100GB to your DAP for only a hundred bucks or so.

It's just a pity that their expansion has to stop here because their disk controller is not LBA and only reads up to the ~127GB limit.

in 3 years..

[perler]

this is that kind of story you read in 3 years and thinks "wow, that was a joke at that time?!" - quite like an april fools joke in an (east-)german DIY mag in the early eighties about a "poket tv" complete with DIY blueprints and part list, haha ;) - at that time you just couldn't imagine happen something like this because "you will never get a tube so flat to get into your pocket!"

PAT

It's all fun and games until someone gets /.'ed

[AngryNick]

Ok, everyone stop clicking on the link for the next 2 minutes. I've got work to do and you guys are all hogging the server. I'll let you know when I'm done.

Feel free to visit this link [orbitzgames.com] while you wait for me (I'm a slow reader).

how about a more useful hack?

[RelliK]

Here is what would be a lot more useful:

- buy a 20GB iPod
- buy a 80GB 1.8" HD
- upgrade the HD in the iPod

This would be awesome if you fill up the HD but don't want to shell out $$$ for a whole new unit. Is this possible? I'd love to buy a 20GB model knowing that if I ever run out of space I can upgrade the HD.

It's a fake

[Revvy]

It's an obvious fake. The photos are taken from the Ars Technica autopsy of the Nano. If you look closely at the picture with the "attached" ATA board, it's clear the wires are Photoshopped in.

Coral cache

[bcat24]

Try this link [nyud.net].

Re:Or Google cache

[Kalak]

Google doesn't cache the images, so half the humor is lost (and that's why it's slow to load).

Re:a little late?

[djward]

Oooh, a whole WEEK ago! You MUST be cool reading ALL these sites EVERY minute, just WAITING for that FRESH scrap of news!

There is an Outside. BELIEVE in the Outside.

Re:a little late?

[xtracto]

There is an Outside. BELIEVE in the Outside.

Somehow... you almost made me cry [phdcomics.com] (or I am making a PhD you Insensitive clod)

Re:a little late?

[sehryan]

"New?" I don't know about you, but the only time I see the word "New" is in the spelling of the word "News."

News, by definition, is a report of recent or unkonwn events. I would put 8 days well within the recent timeframe. And I didn't know about it. So I would say this definitely qualifies as "News" for me.

Feasible.

[Kadin2048]

You joke, but it wouldn't be very hard. Not that long ago I saw a hack (in Macaddict magazine, I believe) on how you could run an iPod Shuffle off of a 9V battery. Basically you just take a USB extension cable and cut it a few inches away from the female end, connect the 9V battery to a solid-state +5V voltage regulator (Radioshack) and connect that to the appropriate wires in the USB cable. Wrap with duct tape and enjoy.

If you could find a +5V regulator that would work with just 1V of overhead, you'd be in

Re:Feasible.

[Kadin2048]

I noticed the absence of the caps also, I assumed that it was because there aren't any transients in the supply to filter, since the regulator is practically attached to the battery by its leads, and the load doesn't have any high-frequency draws that would require the second cap downstream of the regulator. At least I'm hoping that's the case, it could also be that whoever did the first version didn't put any on, and everyone else has just copied that. :)

Interesting suggestion about the diodes. I don't thi

Re:Hoax!

[Rakshasa Taisab]

A very clever observation, you deserve a cookie.

Re:Offtopic

[TheHawke]

Tisk, tisk, tisk... You guys blew the wiki's binder up. XD

This calls for library paste... A gallon of it!

Uncyclopedia vs. Wikipedia

[Anonymous Coward]

Back in the spring, I saw a "Coming Soon" announcement for Uncyclopedia which said It's like Wikipedia, only you can make shit up!

Re:iPod Nano becomes iPod Gigo

[PatrickThomson]

You seem to have forgotten to read 1) the slashdot article text 2) everyone elses posts. This is a JOKE, as seen by the monty python foot.

it's a JOKE...

[gotr00t]

The article is obviously satire about how some people simply don't understand the point of having an iPod. It's _NOT_ about the storage space, it's _NOT_ about the features. It's a convinent way to carry music around.

I see it as a slap in the face for those people who say things like "the iPod should have an CF expansion slot!" or "it should have video!!!111!one"(actually it does now), because that's not the selling point of the iPod.