From roughlydrafted.com, an eyeopening comparison of the zune and the ipod.
Some highlights:
“The lower pixel density of the Zune’s screen means its display can only be less sharp.”
“It just distorts the display to show it in a stretched 3×4 aspect ratio, at the very same resolution. Microsoft carefully avoids calling it a wide aspect display because it isn’t.”
“Microsoft isn’t supporting Audible audiobooks, nor providing any support for podcasting, nor has it announced any support for notes, tasks, calendars, contacts, or games. So all it does is play music.”
“What value is Microsoft offering at the same price? A rewarmed WinCE PDA, packaged as the PlaysForSure Gigabeat music player which failed in the marketplace, and then rebranded again as the Zune. How many layers of failure does it take to deliver an iPod killer?”
“Even more oddly, despite all the talk about sharing and community, a received song can’t be forwarded on to others, so there’s no real community involved at all, just a single buying recommendation. Of course, given the scant likelihood of three Zunes being sold within the same county, this may never come up as an issue.”
“One would expect a certain level of interest and excitement out of Microsoft’s own users, but that isn’t really happening. Nearly every Zune site on the web is carefully stepping around the piles of problems to spend a lot of time on Microsoft supplied bullet points, including the “celebration of music,” the slightly larger or at least stretched display, and how wireless DRM sharing is such a brilliant idea.”
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