Microsoft Zune 30GB Digital Media Player - As if.
A brief rant if you will indulge me. And it is my blog, so you will.
No wait, come back. I’ll be nice. Honest.
Yes I am capable. Sha.
So Woot is offering a Microsoft Zune 30GB Digital Media Player tonight for $99.00.
And yet, using any product made by Microsoft is still such a horrifying idea that I am more than willing to pay twice as much to use a quantifiably inferior product from Apple.
Why? No, I am not actually insane.
It is the non-quantifiable issues. Like usability.
I am more than happy to pay twice as much for a new iPod nano with less than a third of the drive space, a smaller screen, and no FM tuner, or WiFi. Because the iPod is usable, and the Zune… well, it will quickly become another mp3 playing brick in the bottom of my technology drawer - which makes it a waste at half the price.
See, it isn’t so much about fandom, security, stability, or even slick design - though Apple certainly has all of that in spades over Microsoft. It is about simple usability.
Though, given that one must wonder what Apple is thinking when they brick iPhones, and release the iPod touch after crippling many of it’s features. Perhaps the Steve is beginning to be affected by his own reality distortion field and needs to go away for a little while again?
/rant
Oh, and if anyone is wondering what sort of bobble I would appreciate for Christmas this year, I like the red one.