I understand the idea, that creating a clone isn't the way to go. But I think their is nothing wrong with trying to solve the same problem. With the ipod, Apple realized that like with the mobile phone, how it looks is much more important than how much space it has. I bought the first generation ipod. I remember a guy stopping me on a train station and wanting to try it out. We talked about it for a bit, he loved it, didn't care how much it cost. Unfortunately for him it didn't work with Windows. When Apple fixed that everything changed. The rest of the products on the market are just not good enough with respect to the ipod in terms of looks.