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They mention that the Zune is thicker than the 30GB Ipod and that it's all plastic. Yuck. If they're going to do that, it better be amazing plastic. If they go cheap, they can forget succeeding with this. No one will ditch their Ipods for something fat, clunky, and cheap feeling.
I can't say I'm liking the white text on black background. As a matter of fact, I don't like that at all. Hopefully, that will be customizable.
Wifi is fine, but I would much rather have had BT. It doesn't look like the Wifi will serve the user for anything truly important. I'd rather know that I could use a pair of wireless BT headphones without having to rely on some stupid bulky BT add-on, than having Wifi that essentially won't do much of anything for me.
And it's too bad there's no true mechanical scroll wheel, but that it just serves as buttons only.
Earlier, I was thinking that Microsoft probably really had something on their hands here, but now I'm starting to wonder.
If this thing ends up feeling like they cut a bunch of corners, they're going to have a real hard time catching up. Even with their three to five year plan, I think at this point in the game, to make any serious inroads, they're going to have to really impress the masses with their first entry - the masses who are accustomed to the beautifully designed Ipods. Otherwise, they're going to have a difficult time gathering consumer interest with future models. It would be similar to Hyundai making improvements to their newest models of cars and trying to entice people to buy them after having made cheap junk. Once people associate a company's products with lower quality, it's very difficult to earn their interest and trust in a particular product again.
I know we have to wait to see for sure, but I'm not liking what I'm hearing so far. Then of course, this info is coming from iLounge which is dedicated to the Ipod, so I'm taking some of it with a grain of salt.
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