I love my iPod Touch. But as an user of alternative operating systems, I also hate it from the bottom of my heart, due to the Apple lock down.

However do I think that rich media players like the iPod Touch are the way to go. Yet I would prefer them to have an open platform to be based on. Having played around with the Android SDK, I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t hide the phone functionality the same way Apple does and offer rich media players.

I hope there will be manufacturers considering exactly that. I’d like to be able to scp my music files to my media player as it comes right out of the box, not hack it to kingdom come and hope that the libgpod developer managed to reverse engineer it in his spare time. I’m sure that guy has better things to do than keep doing this.

Ah well, we’ll see. One thing’s for sure. My iPod Touch is definitely getting replaced with an iPhone formfactor Android device, as soon a decent one will be available. If it won’t be a media player, then an Android phone with headphone jack.

via http://www.tomservo.cc/2008/04/20/google-android-why-only-for-phones/