Exactly. Throwing extra power into a device doesn't necesarily make it better. I have always disliked Apple computers for two reasons - I dislike quite a few of the interface & customisation choices they made, which I won't discuss here (it's not the place) and the fact that in order to use their OS you are locked into their hardware. The latter is also one of the reasons I prefer the PS3 to the Xbox 360 (more of periferals than actual hardware, but it's pretty much the same reasoning). However, within the relm of music players and phones these things are not really a concern and can actually help (a simple interface is good when there are few options available and there is no need to cutomise it to a great degree if all the options are available. On the hardware front being locked in has it advantages in the relm of mobile hardware as the power and flexibility isn't really required and it meens it can work much more seemlessly). Throwing extra power into the mix won't improve your UI, and it won't make things much faster when all you need to do is render a minimalist UI and play a music file from a hard disk. It may improve video playback, but when the apple hardware is perfectly capable of doing this what is the point?
I'm kinda curious about the market share thing though. Do you meen for the US, North America or Worldwide? If it's only in the US or NA thats pretty poor, but if its worldwide then its hardly surprising considering Zunes are only available in the USA and Canada. Of course that fact may hinder sales within NA as word of "mouth" over the internet would be severely weakened
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Exactly. Throwing extra power into a device doesn't necesarily make it better. I have always disliked Apple computers for two reasons - I dislike quite a few of the interface & customisation choices they made, which I won't discuss here (it's not the place) and the fact that in order to use their OS you are locked into their hardware. The latter is also one of the reasons I prefer the PS3 to the Xbox 360 (more of periferals than actual hardware, but it's pretty much the same reasoning). However, within the relm of music players and phones these things are not really a concern and can actually help (a simple interface is good when there are few options available and there is no need to cutomise it to a great degree if all the options are available. On the hardware front being locked in has it advantages in the relm of mobile hardware as the power and flexibility isn't really required and it meens it can work much more seemlessly). Throwing extra power into the mix won't improve your UI, and it won't make things much faster when all you need to do is render a minimalist UI and play a music file from a hard disk. It may improve video playback, but when the apple hardware is perfectly capable of doing this what is the point? I'm kinda curious about the market share thing though. Do you meen for the US, North America or Worldwide? If it's only in the US or NA thats pretty poor, but if its worldwide then its hardly surprising considering Zunes are only available in the USA and Canada. Of course that fact may hinder sales within NA as word of "mouth" over the internet would be severely weakened