Discovering it all over again

Ok, I’m going to sound like a total Apple fan-boy with this, but I have to say it. Yesterday, my iPod fell out of it’s case. I picked it up and suddenly without the extra bulk of the case, I was once again struck by how utterly perfect it is. It’s small, it’s light, it’s beautiful, and the user interface is great. It feels good in your hand.

Ok, the screen is a bit scratched up, and so is the shiny back surface. But it’s still a wonder of modern industrial design.

And I look at the Zune, and I see an ugly brown brick, and I think “what the hell were they thinking?”

And before you write me off as a total Apple geek, I had the same feeling with my Treo when I used it for a day without the heavy magnesium innopocket.com case. Not as perfect as an iPod, but definitely smaller and sleeker than I normally think of it because I normally have it in that case.

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  3. I think even I might buy one of them. It’s not that I’m not an Apple fanboy, it’s that I find it difficult to see the point of multi-function gadgets. My camera has a built-in camera, my mobile is useful for telephone calls and my Palm superseded my diary and various bits of paper.

    But an Apple iPhone. . . I would be seriously, seriously tempted.

    (oh, and Mrs BK bought a new iPod last week, and watched her first video podcast last night. I was blown away by the video quality, it is superb.)

  4. With the Zune, Microsoft is thinking “We can be the centre of the home entertainment space”, since Zune integrates quite well with the Xbox 360, which can already have video streamed to it from Vista PCs.

  5. I’d bet that, unlike the Apple music player, the Microsoft one makes it _very_ difficult to blow away the operating system and replace it with a (*cough* linux *cough*) different operating system.

    Sure, it’s nice to have a teeny little music player, but it’s even better to have a teeny little music player that you can play rogue on.

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