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Sorry, you're right; it's more like around 20 of mine.
I'm not complaining about their media player of choice; I'm remarking that the way they chose to discuss it in this article – especially being so focused on streaming – is stupid as fuck. Like 50% of this article is spent bitching about non-issues with phones. I don't even mean "non-issues" in the sense that they don't annoy me personally; I mean "non-issues" in the sense that this devolves into a comparison not of iPod versus smartphone but of iPod versus streaming, or that they're talking about it being so convenient not to have to worry about charging a second device. They can enjoy what they want to; the reasons they describe are, for the most part, asinine.
The author of this article certainly did consider DACs: [Modern smartphones have] got [...] a DAC chip that is by all measures transparent, near-lossless wireless streaming [...]" and that's the last they mention of the DAC, so they clearly don't give a shit about the Wolfson.
The fact they chose to wait until the middle of the article to say "yeah btw this thing is hardmodded for the battery and the storage" is so telling. That'd be the first thing I'd mention about a technological comparison.
40GB is over 50 uncompressed CDs. Where are you getting your FLACs?
Ain't no way your FLAC albums are larger than uncompressed WAV. The only >2GB FLAC albums I have are massive compilations with 50+ tracks. They're smaller than WAV, and that's at max 700MB per CD. Spot checking, it looks like most of mine are ~500MB per album.