Ever met another iAUDIOphile?

[MadGuy]

I talked someone at the store who was doubting between an iPod and a M3 into buying the M3. Of course I let him have a test listen on my device and he fell in love immediately!

So yeah, I met one!

[leviathan]

I haven't met anyone with an iAudio yet here in Hamburg/Germany...and honestly I don't want everyone in my town to have one (although I wouldn't begrudge Cowon the well deserved success)...but wouldn't you feel a little bit the same about the iAudio M3 like you feel now about the ipod when everyone would have one...ok, the M3 is better and looks more sophisticated...but people as a majority don't seem to like quality, just look at the music charts or at the TV program :-))

[andy]

Originally Posted by Koolshen

I don't know if you have them in your region, but the electronic warehouse chain Makro Markt (the ones with the dumb Dieter Bohlen spots in TV) sell them. At least I saw several iAudio4 and M3 in two or three shops of them in Berlin.

it's about one year ago i even noticed there's makromarkt (i was in stuttgart, and walked into the one near the main station) they only sell the iaudio4 in the mediamarkts i know, and won't get the m3 because there's not enough demand: either iriver or ipod :-(
on the other hand, i know hardly any people who even got a flash player, let alone a hdd. but i'm sure i'll see some at the trier university, even if its the clinical white of ipod earbuds

[mysticalpha]

I saw a guy -- in his late teens -- with an iaudio4 on the subway. I know it's an iaudio4 because of the color screen. I usually see ipod users on the subways but let's try and change that eh?

[Jetson]

Originally Posted by leviathan

but wouldn't you feel a little bit the same about the iAudio M3 like you feel now about the ipod when everyone would have one.

Actually, i'd feel better if many people use M3's.
More customers means more accessories from other companies, probably a better service network, a larger number of people working on improvements, like the replacement battery you can get for iRiver H100 series now. I still wonder what will happen in case my M3 ever needs a repair.
I bought the M3 (after checking out iRiver H140 and H340) to have a decent device for music playback. If another company comes out with a better technology i'd buy their product if the M3 is no longer sufficient for me.

[RiverSyphide]

i go to one of the largest universities here in the states, so it is apple country here. apple desktops, apple laptops, etc... so naturally i mostly see ipods or ipod minis when it comes to daps. every once in a while i see a person w/ a creative zen (which, as i've stated before, i love), and when i do, i smile and think, "you rock."

but i've never, ever seen anyone w/ an iaudio, flash or hard drive. i'm all by my lonesome.

[skyyblue04]

yeah.. hehe, most ppl here still run on cd players..

i have no idea how they can stand carrying that huge thing with an even bigger cd case...

me n my friend were md addicts before i decided that 175mb per disc was not enough.....

few ppl(including my friend) still use md... which is probly better than flash or cdplayers...

i see a few ppl with ipods, and a few ppl with iriver or rio flash players...

[Trucci]

90% of the time I see iPods, the other 5% I see iRivers, and the other 5% is everything else. But no iAudio yet.

[the_Omniscient]

I'm pretty sure I'm one of the first ppl on the face of the Earth to have spotted a Lavod-o-phile. That's right... Lavod. What are the odds of not finding iAudiophiles while finding Lavod-owners, right? Big enough, so it seems :|

[Trucci]

Well, according to an article on dapreview, Apple has a 92.1% share of the hard drive audio player industry. I guess it makes sense that everyone here sees iPods.

[soda]

i have never meeted one in the world.

mine engrish is not so gut.

[Cedric]

I've never met anyone with a iAudio. They don't even know what that is.
My friends have mostly iPods or iRivers