Imagine a classroom full of young students somewhere is America. The trainer enters the room and notices a number of students listening to personal Mp3 players. The instructor, in a somewhat burly voice snaps; "Okay, you can turn those Ipods off now!". This little scene brings out a well-know phenomenon, that of denoting something, in this case, a personal media player, by a popular brand name - Ipod.
Apple's Ipod has come to be synonymous with any number of media, or Mp3 players on the market. A worthy competitor to the Ipod; the Zune, has recently appeared on the scene. The Zune's fight to overtake the Ipod will be difficult because the Ipod currently dominates the personal media player market. I heard a stand-up comedian recently spout a blurb to the supervene of; "A Zune? that's like an Ipod, only not as cool...".
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Although the Ipod currently has the advantage, Microsoft will be supporting the Zune and a regular 'battle of the Titans' is shaping up. The Zune is a great-looking media player. I personally prefer the Zune's design, but a majority of fashion known habitancy will buy the Ipod based solely on how they imagine they will be perceived by other people, and no number of technical specifications or highlight comparisons will dissuade them from their choice.
Many people, however, value function over style, and the techie crowd will concern themselves with the technical specifications and operation features of products when development a purchase. When you correlate the Zune to the Ipod with such criteria in mind, the Zune starts looking... Well, cool!
The Zune has a larger video display, .5 inches, or about 30 percent larger in fact. The Zune can recapitulate via WiFi over a little area, and Zune owners can share media wirelessly - what the Zune creators tout as a kind of 'social connectivity' highlight of the player. The Zune models also have a built-in Fm tuner. Do any of the Ipod models have WiFi or an Fm tuner? No.
Ipod does give consumers more option in terms of memory capacity however, with some Ipod models having up to 80Gb,(Giga-bytes) of hard drive memory. The Zune offers only models with 30Gb. It's great that Ipod gives habitancy a option in terms of memory, but honestly folks, 30Gb of memory is honestly adequate. 30Gb can store about 7,500 songs, and if each tune was only three minutes long, that's still over two-weeks of continuous 24 hour play without hearing the same song twice. .
I have not given a standard comparison of features or operation of whether the Ipod or the Zune. I hope, however, to have brought up some spicy points for discussion, not only about what will be the two top contenders in the personal media player market, but also about some spicy behaviors we have as American consumers.
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