Is ephpod still necessary?

My current MP3 player is failing due to a faulty power connector so I'm 
considering an iPod as a replacement, but I don't want to give up the perfect 
user interface of my Neo2200. Although software was required on older 
computers, it isn't anymore.

I can plug my Neo2200 into any modern computer (via a, admittedly slow, USB 
cable) and as far as the comupter is concerned it is simply a USB hard drive. 
There's no software needed on the computer other than a modern operating system 
(in my case, Windows 2000 Pro).

The hard drive is FAT formatted and when the USB cable is unplugged the player 
scans all the directories and subdirectories for .mp3 and .m3u files. The 
Neo2200 simply presents a hierarchical filesystem view of any directories 
containing .mp3 and .m3u files.

With a Windows iPod, why isn't it just a FireWire hard drive? What exactly does 
EphPod do? Can a Windows iPod work without software if the OS supports FireWire 
hard drives? If not, why not?


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