From Electronista:
“Simply put, Apple is no longer the leader in the realm of hard drive-based players,” says PC Magazine reviewer Tim Gideon. “While the Zune 80GB and the iPod classic are both outstanding devices, the Zune has more features–and it’s more fun.”
Sounds ominous. The Zune beating the iPod in a fair review? Surely there must be some mistake???
The iPod classic is widely believed to be a form of stopgap measure for Apple, which is gradually transitioning to an all-flash lineup headlined by the iPod touch but feels obligated to maintain a hard drive-based player to address the wide gap in capacity between the differing storage formats.
That explains it.
Microsofts latest unreleased Zune model competes well (on features, if not compatibility or battery life) compared to the previous models of Apple’s iPod line, a line that they’re slowly killing off in order to embrace the iPod touch and iPhone.
That must be pretty depressing. The latest and greatest from Redmond just about beats the hard disk based ‘Video’ iPod which Apple released two years ago yesterday. The updated models since then have just really increased the capacity of the micro-hard drives.
They used to say: Windows 95: Macintosh ‘89 but it’s beginning to look like Microsoft is closing that gap.
Look out Steve - they’re only two years behind now!!!!!!!
8 Responses to “Newsflash: Zune beats iPod”
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November 13th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Well, given recent experience with failed iPods, not sure I’d buy another one so competition from anyone is good. I have a failed 5th Gen Ipod belonging to my son, 1.5 years old, £95 to fix. My own 60gb iPod photo is the third replacement from Apple. These things appear to expire after a year !!
November 13th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
As with anything depends on the treatment.
My 4th gen clickwheel only gave up the ghost recently after a fairly full life. the hd died and thanks to toshiba you can’t get them at reasonable prices anymore. It only died as I kept it in the car and the temp range and bumping finally did for it.
I am, when i can get my soldering iron up and running, going to connect the old one to a 3.5″ disk so as to have a “giant”iPod, or if i found a suitable drive it would be a perfect unit again.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
YMMV but my iPod is now 2 years old. I don’t keep it in a case but then neither have I dropped it or stood on it or fed it to a dog.
AppleCare is good…
November 13th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
My wife has a 2nd gen iPod which she still uses. Melissa a 1 gen iPod nano and works fine, thought the key lock sometimes releases itself without warning.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Mine has lived in the glove compartment of my car since i bought it.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
If it’s in the glove compartment I am intrigued by how you exploited it; iPod was always much more than an music player.
I’ve had a 2nd gen since 2003; still works fine although the headphone socket’s a bit knackered - due to use of a cassette adapter well past its prime.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
funny how few of us can be bothered to discuss zune!
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:48 am
If you want to discuss Zune, drop by zune.net…. but don’t mention the iPod!! There are some very angry people on that forum!! LOL