I can stick with the older models I already have.

And yeah- it sucks being so limited in options- but everything plays together so nicely it was easy to get suckered in. I suppose I'm still feeling the sting of the Rio Karma- it was the superior product but it never got the love from its creators that the iPod did. On the whole, once I finally got an iPod the overall ownership experience is better than with the Karma, even though the Karma had better features. I suppose I just enjoy the comfort of working within the same family of products produced by a company that is going to be around for a while, even though in the back of my mind I know I'm committing myself deeper and deeper every time I take the convenient route and buy something off iTunes (non-music that is, since the music doesn't have drm anymore).