My point is the iPod isn't as good as many of the Creative players out there but Apple's marketing is what sells them and the fanbase also helps I guess they are called groupies.
Blue, Blue. What are we going to do with you?
Again you compare Apples to Oranges as though the comparison has some kind of meaning. Comparing a $40 512K Flash based MP3 player to an over $200 30GB player is bad enough but then you ignore that Apple also offered a lower end iPod more comparable to the Sandisk Companion, the iPod Shuffle. The Sandisk plsyer is not the same thing as a $200 iPod at all, not comparable except that they both will play MP3s... and certainly not comparable in price. You are being disingenuous again.