As soon as I saw the Ipod, I said to myself, "You Apple people better invest well, and you better have something else up your sleeve, because the clones will be here by Christmas."
I started seeing them in August. I still haven't bought one based on my experiences with being addicted to PDA's.
Shame on MS, by the way, for squandering some pretty serious opportunities.
I want my music to reside on my computer, with other documents, directions to various places I want to go, shopping lists, etc.
When I pull my car in the garage, the car passes information about itself (brake wear, gas milege, time to next oil change, etc.). I want the computer to pass any recently posted recall data to the car, and service advisories, etc.
I want to go in to my office, change up the music mix, download the days working docs, shopping lists, etc. then walk out of the office.
I want to wake up, start the car, have all that stuff downloaded to my car and enjoy the new music, news, directions, traffic advisories, construction slowdowns etc. that are now in my car's computer.
When I get to work, I want to pull out the thumb drive from the dash of my car and go into my office, where I plug it into my Bose Wave radio where it will play my music.
Everything I'm talking about is basic, basic tech today. The fact I can't buy a car with something like that is idiotic.
You're close on the music. You can buy cars with iPod support, and you can buy stereos with iPod docks. Keep it all on your iPod. And you can take your other documents since the iPod also acts as portable file storage.