I like the idea of having something that is super robust, when you’re listening to podcasts it’s all audio anyway, as long as there is a way to select what your listening to, it doesn’t matter that much.
Back in the early 90s I was perfectly happy with the walkmans and mini disk players I had, I hardly even took the devices out of my pocket because you could change the track using the remote on the headphone cable. One of them even had a small lcd on the remote so you could read the album and track name. Those were the days.
