"Anybody notice that CREATIVE has like a billion mp3 players?" Because they have been making them for a long time - twice as long as Apple... but not all billion players are current models.
reply [Sure, and I bet they sell a whole bunch of them overseas (such as in my home country - Sweden). But you are gonna tell me with a straight face that you need this many models to get the job done? I was just suggesting that a few more versitile models would probobly be cheaper (to produce, market and sell) than a flood of 512mb shuffle-esq mp3 players.]
"Video playback seems secondary to form fitness when you get down to this type of size/player."
Ummm... only because the market is conditioned for iPoohs.
reply [Form and style has always been what the mainstream has been conditioned for. Blame SONY, not Apple. Personally, I like things that fit in my pockets and look good. If you don't that is fine too.]
you fail to make a decent point. You challenge the fact that creative has a wide variety of options. Please realize that creative started MP3 players BEFORE iPod, and thus they have many models. Not all the models are advertised as NEW, they are simply available. This is the same with many companies. You can find so many models of Nokia phones, but Nokia is not telling you to buy them. They are simply available.
As for style? I think the ipod is nice looking, but not the greatest. Most of the market likes stylish products, however, true to creative's history it has never marketed to the masses. This is probably one of their few attempts to market to the masses. I mean if you were to ask people who Creative Labs was, 8/10 probably could not tell you.
iPod has more money than Creative, it engages in aggressive marketing (which is why most people bought one in the first place).
Also why would you complain about a feature such as video, even if you are not going to use it. It's like me complaining that my tv has HDTV capability even though I don't have an HD receiver/box.
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"Anybody notice that CREATIVE has like a billion mp3 players?"
Because they have been making them for a long time - twice as long as Apple... but not all billion players are current models.
reply [Sure, and I bet they sell a whole bunch of them overseas (such as in my home country - Sweden). But you are gonna tell me with a straight face that you need this many models to get the job done? I was just suggesting that a few more versitile models would probobly be cheaper (to produce, market and sell) than a flood of 512mb shuffle-esq mp3 players.]
"Video playback seems secondary to form fitness when you get down to this type of size/player."
Ummm... only because the market is conditioned for iPoohs.
reply [Form and style has always been what the mainstream has been conditioned for. Blame SONY, not Apple. Personally, I like things that fit in my pockets and look good. If you don't that is fine too.]
you fail to make a decent point. You challenge the fact that creative has a wide variety of options. Please realize that creative started MP3 players BEFORE iPod, and thus they have many models. Not all the models are advertised as NEW, they are simply available. This is the same with many companies. You can find so many models of Nokia phones, but Nokia is not telling you to buy them. They are simply available.
As for style? I think the ipod is nice looking, but not the greatest. Most of the market likes stylish products, however, true to creative's history it has never marketed to the masses. This is probably one of their few attempts to market to the masses. I mean if you were to ask people who Creative Labs was, 8/10 probably could not tell you.
iPod has more money than Creative, it engages in aggressive marketing (which is why most people bought one in the first place).
Also why would you complain about a feature such as video, even if you are not going to use it. It's like me complaining that my tv has HDTV capability even though I don't have an HD receiver/box.