Electronista recently went into a fap-fest regarding Samsung’s new OMG IPOD TOUCH KILLER, rattling off facts about its ability to support Flash, expandable storage, lack of sync app requirement, and neatly glossing over the lack of a ship date, price and battery life. Marco Arment expertly rips the piece to shreds on his blog. A highlight, reacting to the Electronista piece’s asertion that Samsung has “presented some of the first significant competition to the iPod touch”:

I’d call it ‘potential competition’—it’s not competition if it doesn’t exist yet. And when it does, it’s not really a competitor if it doesn’t sell very well. It’d be difficult to say, for instance, that the Zune was ever really providing ‘significant competition’ to the iPod.

This should be printed out and stapled to the head of every idiot tech journo who dares to, without irony, use the words ‘iPod touch’ followed by ‘killer’ in any article even mentioning the Galaxy Player.

(For the record, I want there to be loads of challengers to the iPod touch—only then will Apple’s arse be kicked, perhaps encouraging the company to weld a decent stills camera to the thing. For now, though, such a thing simply doesn’t exist.)