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Your myopic perspective reflects the limits of your vision.
Besides the fact that I have never seen a universal remote that could be used by Homer Simpson / Joe Sixpack, that was meant to be an example of possibilities, not something on the drawing board today.
Most of what you all are saying parrots similar comments when the iPod first arrived: it's too expensive, not enough capacity, hard drives suck, battery sucks / can't remove it, Asia makes them better, Apple doesn't have experience in this market, iPod doesn't have my favorite audio format, yadda yadda yadda . . .
RE MP3 players, who's crying now? Apple will make mistakes, of course.
But, for all of you 'get a horse' folks, time will tell . . .