I am now an official Apple product owner. Last Christmas, I bought an iPod Nano for Kerry and this year, her parents got her an iPod Touch, leaving the iPod Nano in my hands 
When the iPod originally came out I had a lot to say against it, however of the years and generations, Apple has made changes in all the right directions. Battery life was one of my biggest concerns with the original iPod. I don’t mean the time between charges, but the overall life of the battery sucked and from what I understood was not covered under the warranty (although I can’t find any evidence of that now). But battery technology has made leaps and bounds in the past 5 years and while the battery in my iPod Nano isn’t technically “user-replaceable” its not impossible to do with some know how.
I had, and still do to some extent have a gripe with the price. Since this particular iPod was sort-of free. But there are some things the iPod has that justify the price. The internal memory seems to be really high quality and fast, which is a nice plus. I’ve owned a couple creative devices and transfer times (particularly of encrypted content) were horrendous.
So far it’s one of my favorite Christmas presents, and it’s inspired me to do some cleanup of the 35Gb of digital music I’ve had lying around, removing the crap I dont own or listen to and organizing all my data.