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First, did you see me pronounce it “a failure”? Nope. Did I then go on to say it was a “failure” due to a lack of a USB port? Far from it. Guess you missed my larger point.

Let me see you move a 12 GB movie file to that thing. I’ll watch. If it’s a media platform (and let’s at least admit that that is exactly how they’ve been positioning it), then it has to readily interact (i.e. have appropriate interfaces) to facilitate it. You can’t do everything via bluetooth or 3G or Wi-Fi or the Web. It just flat doesn’t work that way.

All I am saying and HAVE been saying is that to ignore such realities (and others) is ridiculous; glaring oversights. Some here trumpet that as “revolutionary” akin to dropping floppy drives in past products.

That is hopelessly naive and does a disservice to their target audience; their target user base.

I’m a worldwide marketing guy. I don’t know everything, I suck at a lot of things, and I’m no genius. I have, however, built a $1B+ business for a huge corporation (high performance computing, aka “supercomputing”), so I approach things from a point of view of “lessons learned”, the hard way usually. You don’t approach your market as “I’ll show THEM how to do things from now on; WE will define the new paradigm and they MUST adopt it”.

That is suicidal.

First, did you see me pronounce it “a failure”?...That is suicidal.

Then I don't understand your point. You say it isn't a failure. But you also say it's suicidal. Isn't suicide a failure?

I download movies to my iPod Touch and watch them. I guess what you are complaining about is that you would have to download the movie from iTunes and pay for the rental. Is that what you are unhappy about? And you don't like the codec algorithm that Apple uses to make the video file smaller?