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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
So I'm genuinely curious, and I mean this in a completely sincere way: I've seen this said before elsewhere, but no one ever explains what they think Microsoft should do. If you don't consider an OLED screen with the worlds first Tegra-powered handheld device (if that's indeed what they used), and the first MP3 player/DAP HD radio receiver innovative...that what is? What to you would be considered innovative?
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Jason, I don't think the average consumer is going to care about that stuff. They're looking at price and features. I don't have any idea of what would be innovative - I'm just a consumer! But the Zune HD needs something that will scream out at the consumer "I'm better because...". Something they can see when they play with it in the store. Now, if the OLED screen is noticeably superior to the screen on the iPod Touch, that would be a big advantage because that can be SEEN.
As for the radio - well, honestly, I don't know anyone who listens to radio except to kill time in the car (if they don't have a CD player or iPod/Zune car connector). Not sure the HD radio is such a big selling point.
And why in the world would I want to connect my device to an HD screen when I can just watch it in HD in the first place, be it via a downloaded file or whatever other means there are to get HD content (ignorant here since the only HD content I get is via the iTunes store and I watch it on my 24" Cinema Display. I don't own any HD television sets). So I don't see this as a selling point either.
I'll discount the Windows-only aspect of it since that's not going to change and I don't think it matters since most folks use Windows anyway. No big deal.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the Zune be it HD or the original. I just think Microsoft needs to do something to make the device seem more attractive to the average consumer than the iPod Touch, even if it's just marketing. Sell the HD features and the OLED screen so that people will prefer the Zune to the iPod.