>An odd statement, since nobody said it wasn't. iPod was and is a great bit >of design. The question is, are you being rational when you dismiss the >current Zune simply because it is an MS product? Because there is no other >reason to do so. The 120GB Zune matches or betters the 120GB iPod Classic, >feature for feature, at the same price. You just won't bother to look >because it says "Microsoft" on the box.
Not true. Purchasing something based on a list of features is silly. Tonight on NPR there was an interview about the Dow Jones Industrial average. The interviewee pointed out that this index was largely meaningless because it just summed the stock price of a list of corporations. The problem was that there was no weighting of the stocks to reflect their significance. Same goes for features. You don't weigh a state-of-the-art design the same as a non-original copy of a 7-year-old design. The Zune is zzzzzzz. Go ahead and scoff at the iPod for being "merely" popular, but achieving popularity is exactly the right measure. Popularity is the sum total of all the features weighted by their significance to the people manking the purchase. The result of the free market at its best. I did look at the Zune quite carefully. What I saw was poor, uninspired copy. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
