This would be nice, but...

Posted Jun 29, 2006 12:04 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: This would be nice, but... by arcticwolf
Parent article: Indie Podcasting with Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

This turns out not to be the case :)

Firstly, there is zero risk of bricking the iPod unless you do something *really* stupid: this isn't a flashing process, it's all just disk writes. If you follow the instructions, it's trouble-free.

Secondly, we see a *lot* of non-technical random users doing just that. (Admittedly for the iPod the huge flood of blind users Rockbox has seen for other platforms isn't so likely to turn up, because with its non-tactile scroll wheel the iPod really is rather blind-unfriendly, but still there are a significant number of users for a still-unreleased port.)