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I still haven’t caved in and bought an iPhone. Basically I prefer the smaller size and the clamshell form factor of the Motorola Ming. And of course it can play music and videos and anything you want (well, anything that isn’t to DRM’ed - basically only the RealPlayer compatible DRM formats play on the Ming).

But one of the real values of the iPhone is that it’s connected to the iTunes infrastructure. And that really has been a key reason why people keep buying iPods… you can’t simply sync other devices with iTunes!

BadApple tried to do this a couple of years ago but went nowhere. iTunes Sync appears to be able to sync to some MP3 players, but it looks rather kludgy and even worse, it’s Windows only and I don’t own a Windows machine anymore (haven’t in a while).

Yes, you can burn your music on CDs, rip them back and then sync that with some other software to the Ming. But nothing comes close to the iTunes experience.

Darn.

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