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Creative Zen Micro Ships Today
SpaFF writes "Today Amazon started shipping the shipping the Zen Micro, Creative's answer to the Ipod-mini and one of several touted 'ipod-killers' due out for the holiday season. Sporting 5GB of space, a form-factor similar to the Ipod-mini, built-in FM radio, and a REMOVABLE battery, the Zen Micro looks quite promising. Does anyone know if this thing will work with Linux?"
1) FM radio? That will hardly drive sales...if there was anything to listen to on FM, XM and Sirius wouldn't have a business plan.
2) Removable battery? That is what is supposed to kill the iPod? Huhn? How about UI? Is that any good? How do I sync it to my music Library? Historically Creative sucks at this kind of thing...
3) Sure isn't competing on price.
No OGG support. Again. Fuck it. Wake up Creative!
I wonder why the 20gig version costs less than the 5gig version. I would rather buy a unit with 4 times the storage and pay $12 less than the 5gig unit.
Why waste the time for OggVorbis support? So that the 0.0005% consumers who use it can be happy?
>But iTMS *is* the dominant legal music download store at the moment
No-one ouside the apple fanbase has ever heard of iTMS, please keep drinking the apple juice *hic*, but no-one else in he world is falling for this.
new batteries for ipod are found very easily on the web for 50 bucks.
if a person is honestly giving up on the phenomenal connectivity, amazing and simple interface, the greatest digital music store on the planet, and the fact its the best looking mp3 player bar none. Just because of a lack of a removable battery then that person is just plain foolish. IMO.
and by foolish i mean stupid.