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Like I said, I am not a hacker/developer. But I do own an iPod. Try hacking or developing for that. The device is completely closed off. Apple attempts to jam that stupid iTunes down your throat so that they can sell you their sonically substandard "DRMed" music. They have even taken the Quicktime player and attached it inexorably to that bloatware. Finding the download for just the Quicktime player the last time I checked was not an easy task. The iPod was reponsible for getting me into MP3 players. I was using a Minidisc player which is very good but the MP3's are better if you use the best compression format and bit rate. Back to the iPod - it's not up to the hype. The audio quality of my Palm T3 with Aeroplayer installed is far in exceedence to the iPod and it can play a number of different superior formats that the iPod cannot and will not ever support.
I have a PC running Windoze and I have my own strong negative sentiment with that. I have a second hard drive for a dual boot Ubuntu but I just have better things to do with my time than wrestling with getting Linux to properly run on my machine, additionally it will not run the Windows based software I run of which there are no replacements - period. I have at times threatened to get a Mac, but considering that it as it the case in Linux it does not run the software I need and the cost of replacing all the hardware AND software (if it was available), makes it prohibitive.
The senitment of my post was not a complaint, it was just a potential justification of companies actions and that we have to exercise a bit more patience. I will be interested to see how "open" the iRex SDK will be for you developers. I am hoping that it will be WIDE open!
Good Luck To Us All!
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