I meant more of a disaster for people (like me) who use their iPods for listening to music and having access to our music libraries. Another model would not be fine unless that new model has the same amount (or more) of storage at a similar (or less) price point.
Maybe I'm not remember correctly then, but I thought the original marketing for the iPod was focused on the idea of having your music library in your pocket, and that's why with each successive release they increased the storage.
I can't possibly be the only person that still remembers that the purpose of an iPod was for listening to music, not postage stamp sized video and poorly controlled games.
I still don't understand what playlists have to do with anything, I scroll through my list of artists and choose which album to listen to, has nothing to do with a playlist. And when I'm out during the day and get in the mood to listen to something, I want it to be available, not something that didn't get synched that morning. That fact that it can be done now, with a large capacity iPod is great, the idea of taking that away and replacing it with something with smaller storage and a more expensive price point, just because it has some flashy touch screen, makes no sense to me at all
