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Yes, Apple is innovative, in putting together devices that my 80-year-old mother can use relatively easily. And its interface for the new phone product is pleasureable and user-friendly, seemingly. Likewise, Archos continues to come out with advances in video/audio players that critics applaud--who else is doing that?
And, yes, iRiver also has come out with successful, innovative players, such as the Clix line--I didn't suggest otherwise.
But I just don't see the innovation needed to meet consumer needs and to excite us generally, and to get critics to applaud as they would like. Again, when is the last time that a nice, high-capacity audiophile player came out? The iHP-1xx and 3xx series (with Rockbox), and the Cowon iAudio x5s? And more than x years since the Apple DAP came out, there still isn't a "killer app." there--this just does not seem to be rocket science, folks. The parts and pieces are there--they're just not being put together.
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