[Eug-lug] Avoid the loony Zune

[T. Joseph Carter]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:33:00AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> > >http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/147048,CST-FIN-Andy23.article
> > 
> > Ouch!  What a great review, though.  :)
> > 
> > Can Linux run on those things?
> 
> The review's author, Andy Ihnatko, is a long time Mac booster and
> journalist.  He had a monthly humor column in MacUser in the '90s.
> So it's no surprise that he prefers the iPod to the Zune.
> 
> http://www.cwob.com/

I think his point was that he would prefer anything to the Zune.  The fact
that PlaysForSure doesn't along with other user-hostile "features" of the
thing should make anybody prefer just about anything else to the Zune, for
that matter.  He even cited the Sandisk players as being an example of a
company doing the things that Apple won't.

Of course, he also said that Apple's market share is deserved.  You would
not think that'd be so if the competitors are doing the things customers
want better than Apple.  I personally think the Sandisk players could be
the basis of the eventual iPod killer, if ever Sandisk hires some QA
people so their software updates would not periodically brick the things.