I sold my Zune a week ago and have been in agony ever since. It’s not because I can’t live without a Zune, but the thing is without a Zune, I’m forced to either a) listen to radio – nasty solution B) confiscate my wife’s iPod and listen to that until my Gears 2 Zune comes in. Now the problem with listening to an iPod is that I hate Apple products. Not because I’m a M$ fan boy (I do like a lot of their products – Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune to name three) but because Apple products do not allow for any customization of their products at all. If you want a button on an Apple product, forget about it. Not because the mass of customers don’t like it, it’s because Steve Jobs doesn’t want you to have one. Want a custom background to the iPod interface...forget it. Again Steve Jobs knows what I want and is forcing his will on me again. Want a program you programmed to be on the iPhone? Not is Steve doesn’t approve. Customization is the key to customer happiness. Think about it. Does every person on the Earth all want the same thing? No. We each have individual tastes. Do I want a McBurger with fries or do I want a double cheeseburger with lettuce, no tomato, and green peppers? I’ll take the double, and I’ll take customization over fixed platform any day of the week.
Yep, it's one of the reasons why I will never get an iPod. (The other being iTunes -- being locked into one piece of software for music management, yeah, no thank you. Especially after hearing about the stealth software installation it's been doing lately [Safari].)
ReplyDeleteI'd love a Zune personally, but I got my wife and I Sandisk Sansas when I saw them on a deal on Woot.com. Two things really turned me on to them: one, they identify as a mass storage device when you hook them up to a PC, just like a USB stick. Drag and drop music files using whatever you want (Windows Explorer, synchronization software of your choice, or even a Mac or Linux). Two, it's possible to install Rockbox on it; so if I find it's lacking in music or video support down the road or I want to install games or really want to customize the crap out of it, I can.
Plus, they fit my budget a whole lot better. ;)