Thoughts? i have already, rather plainly, stated mine, so what are yours?

really, if you compare apples to microsofts (wait, is it supposed to be apples again?) Apple's 80GB iPod Classic has no where near the functionality of the Zune, which should make it the better buy, for the money. However, Apple has a long history of easy to use interfaces that do what they users really want, and long battery lives, i dont know if the new Zune interface will be that much different, but if the first Zunes were any indication, i think the navigation of the interface is the biggest let down for the Zune.

much past that its all about accessories and cases, there is a lot, and by a lot, i mean metric tons of different accessories, docks, speakers, cases, etc., etc., the list goes on for the iPod, for the Zune, its pretty much what Microsoft releases and thats it, and they charge a frickin fortuen for it too.

Yea, I personally think Microsoft should just drop out now as they need to speed up production time 100% to even get on the same line Apple is in with there generation of iPods. As pretty soon Apple will be coming out with newer and better iPods and Microsoft will just continue to copy the features off every generation coming out in the iPod.

MS should really go back to their R&D labs and redo the whole thing from scratch. No way these Zune will be able to overcome what Apple has done with the new iPod line.

Yea, most definitely they are way to far in production and Microsoft is not.

They could do a lot to fix Vista and the problems with there own but yet they expand into other companies territory. :-X