I do love my iPod. Actually, my iPods (iPodS?) because I have a little 2Gb one for day-to-day convenience and a big 20Gb one which holds a reasonable selection of music and can be used as an external hard disk drive. But part of the reason why I love them (and paid more than I would have done for rival MP3 players) is that they are just MP3 players with good usability¹, not all-singing all-dancing entertainment modules with a million buttons and cool blue LEDs all over them.

¹ N.b. this is a real word