This is why I wish that smartphones hadn't completely killed the market for standalone music-playing devices. Smartphones are fragile and finicky and expensive, none of which is really what you want in a device you'll be using while running. What you want in that scenario is a device that can shrug off the occasional bump or drop, that you can operate without having to look at a screen, and that you can replace when it breaks (because it will break) without having to take out a second mortgage.

But instead of giving us devices that speak directly to those needs, the market requires us to spend even more on add-on products (rubberized cases, wireless earbuds, etc.) to try and take absurdly over-spec'ed smartphones wrapped in glass and entirely designed around a touch-based UI and make them slighly less inappropriate for what we want to do.

Sigh.