Heh. Akin to my list earlier.
Elaborating...
Most people carry SOMETHING big enough to spare space for an 8x10x.5” device. Insofar as it’s big enough to actually use, it’s hardly there. The “power cable” is a mere skinny USB-to-iPod cable requiring little more room.
The lack of a physical keyboard is another great step in Apple’s record of removing stuff users really don’t need. Yeah they’ll whine ... and then buy it and love it without what’s missing.
No USB port? for what purpose? Only real need is the postage-stamp-sized adapter for cameras ... oh wait, that’s available and it’s the size of a postage stamp.
Not enough storage? it’s made for what data you’re actually using, not archival purposes. My whole music collection is 48GB, and 90% of that I’m not going to listen to anyway. Now with iTunes 9.1, I’ll re-rip my whole collection to lossless, and auto-compress what I need when I want to fit - hardly taking up much space at all where I’m actually going to listen to what I’m actually going to listen to. Likewise for video: recompressed, what you’re actually going to watch won’t take up that much space if you’re not goofy enough to want to dump ALL your videos on there. And both music & video are moot points with the growing dominance of Pandora and Netflix et al streaming.
And it’s not supposed to _replace_ anything. It’s something new, so please people stop complaining that it isn’t what, well, it isn’t.
Thanks ctdonath2.