Thank you for your excellent comments. Your analysis of Amazon review scores is very inciteful. For the tech products I have been researching I seem to find extreme scores (love or hate).
I am very amused by your “nerdy, niche audience” comment. Ouch !! I imagine if I abandoned my Apple fanboy obsession a few years sooner, I would have bought several Clip+ players while they were still in production. I guess we could label the Clip Sport as a poor cousin to the Clip+, but I am finding it to be an amusing and pleasant challenge.
