And here’s the official word on iPod, straight from Apple. It’s not a PDA, but it’s a really swell MP3 player, superior to all others in many respects:

• Form-factor: this is just a really pretty piece of gear
• Battery life: My Creative Labs jukebox gets 2h or so, the iPod gets 10h
• Two-way file-transfer: Virtually every other MP3 player has had its design bowlderized by the music industry, made incapable of moving files off its drive to stop people from sharing their collections; with the iPod, Apple has shipped a device that works as a drive, a swapper, and a player
• iTunes: This is the best-designed app of any description that I’ve ever used, and it’s the native control-app for the iPod
• Firewire: Way, way faster than USB and the iPod can draw its power from the Firewire bus and recharge itself while it’s getting loaded up with music
• UI: The UI for this thing is a billion times better than the Sony and Creative Labs players, which are so badly designed as to be essentially unusable

I’ve already ordered mine. Link Discuss