BusinessWeek gives Nike+iPod thumbs up

#2: "Why would you want to run with any hard drive based mp3 player?"

Because she said in earlier posts about this product that she doesn't run.

Erica: "That's not too much to ask for, is it?"

If you were an athlete interested in this stuff you'd know that the landscape for this category of sports electronics has evolved dramatically in the last year or two.

We've got insanely great options right now. There are a lot of us who have logged tens of thousands of miles (running and cycling) with the best electronics money could buy, but nothing comes close to the stuff you can find now.

Try some of it.

I think the blogger's complaints are a bit petty: "If it doesn't do what I want and work with the equipment I have, it's not for me." No? Really?

My wife and I are casual walkers/runners. The Nike+ works great to help us keep track of our workouts. The $30 price makes it a nice low incremental cost over a nano with a lot more features than a stand alone pedometer. What the blogger describes I would expect to cost well over $200.

I would like to see a heart rate monitor and a cyclometer version, though.

it's certainly a clever way of bleeding another couple hundred bucks out of the runners out there who have the video ipod.

The sensor for the Nike+ is not a glorified pedometer, and you do not need to have consistent footsteps since it is much more adwanced than that.

Some people don't want to run with bricks (Phones, big iPods, nevermind that the type of brick you want to run with can break when you run with it. You know, HD and all..).
I don't care if some people need to know how there intestines react in order to enjoy a workout, I never really got that, but then again I'm not that hardcore. Nike+iPod serves me perfectly, and while what you wanted may not be too much to ask for, it certainly is irrelevant for so many of us, and hence it's two different markets; Apple catering to me, you obvioulsy being an athlete can go buy something else.

*cringe*

Why would you want to run with any hard drive based mp3 player? Those vibrations are hellish on HDs and will hasten the death of your music playing unit.

That's why the Nike kit only works with nano's. Flash based drives stand up much better to vibration and shock.

Why pay the $20 for the Marware item when you can have the much cheaper, and just as good ( I own one) Switcheasy version.

swticheasy.com I beleive, and it's only $8.