12-05-2008, 03:32 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 22
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Um, yeah, Ok
1. The Zune Pass is certainly the best of the subscription models available, especially now that Microsoft allows you to keep 10 tracks per month. The subscription model is still extremely niche and now matter how slice and dice it, Steve Jobs is correct, the overwhelming majority of people want to keep their music, not rent it.
2. New iPods run OS X, older iPods do not. The new updates to the iPod lineup require OS X, therefore, the older iPods cannot take advantage of iPod software updates. Besides, do you really want to watch video on an old monochrome screen on a seven year old iPod? Didn't think so.
3. Until recently weren't Zunes and iPods the same price? So the Zune lineup now runs about $20 less? I guess that could sway some but cheaper is not always better. If that were the case then Coby would have the MP3 player market wrapped up.
4. Wireless sharing is a very innovative idea, all you need to do is find someone else with a Zune in order to share. Could take a while.
5. Wireless sync is great and something Apple needs to take advantage of.
6. Wireless music shopping was available on both the iPhone and iPod touch several months before it was on the Zune. Now if comparing iPod Classic, then yeah, Zune wins there, but honestly Apple appears to be pushing the iPod Touch as the defacto iPod these days and that is where the Zune competes.
7. If you want a smiley face on the back of your Zune, then more power to you. I woud like to know just how this affects the consumer's choice in an MP3 player.
8. FM radio. Whatever. Radio is as dead as dead.
9. I can stream all of my iPods on my Xbox 360 just as easy as a Zune.
10. User created games are great and no other MP3 player has games available for it. Now excuse me while I browse the iTunes App Store for some more game to download to my iPod Touch.
11. iTunes regularly has free TV shows and movies. When NBC came crawling back to Apple in September there multiple free episode of The Office, Battlstar Galactica, Monk, Heroes, 30 Rock, and many other NBC Universal properties.
Nice try, but do or do not, there is no try.
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