Comment by honkhonkpants

A lot of people have said this over the years and I still just can't fathom it. The iPod was much smaller than the Creative Nomad of that time, which had a 2.5" HDD and intentionally mimicked the size and shape of a Sony Discman. The iPod had more than double the battery life of the Nomad, which did not charge its batteries from the USB port, necessitating the carriage of the power brick. As for usability the Nomad had a quirk where its user interface would stop responding due to low power supply, but the player would not stop playing, leading to the somewhat hilarious but also very much not funny situation of not being able to stop the music.