From: Chris Dunford <[email protected]>
"Wow!" is right. You pick out the single most damning line in a
generally positive review and hold it up as proof that the Zune
Sucks.
The only thing wrong with this statement is that the review isn't
"generally positive", it's overwhelmingly positive.
Myself, I'd say generally positive is a better description. By most
objective standards, to be considered overwhelmingly positive a
review would have to be very strong on its positives and contain
a very small number of very minor negatives. If you read the
review again, you'll see that it has a large number of (admittedly
mostly fairly minor) negatives. I agree with Pogue's statement
that if the Zune HD existed in a world in which there were no
iPod Touch, it would be a fantastic device. However, in this
universe the Touch has been around for quite some time
before the Zune HD, and it overmatches the Zune HD in most
kinds of functionality without having substantially worse
hardware (if at all). In short, the ZHD is a nice product, not
bad, but not great either. You'd have to have a fairly unusual
and strict set of requirements to prefer it over the iPod Touch
at this point.
That said, as soon as someone gets a Zune HD, I'd be
interested to hear their experiences with it.
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