It always makes me laugh to see how stupid big companies like MS and Apple think their customers are. I guess they probably sit down with their respective software engineers and say "ok, in the new upgrade, we're going to take away feature "X". But, we won't re-work anything. We'll just move it from this place to that over there. They're idiots anyway. They won't be able to figure out a way to get that feature back."
I often think that the actual brains are the consumers who tinker their gadgets rather than the ones involved in the development and design of the actual product.
The auto-playlist wasn't taken out for some evil reason or just to screw with the customers. The Zune 2.0 software was brand new from the ground up whereas the Zune 1 software was basically a theme/graphic shell on top of Windows Media Player. As a result a lot of features got cut due to development time constraints. Auto-playlists is one of the things on their list to add in Zune 2.X revisions.
Take it from a guy who has worked in Support, most of them are stupid or at least not as knowledgeable about electronics as most engadget readers would be!!
Actually it's "ok, in the new upgrade, we're going to take away feature 'X', but then we'll add it back in a later upgrade and everyone will get all excited and generate a buzz about how great a job Microsoft is doing with the Zune."
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It always makes me laugh to see how stupid big companies like MS and Apple think their customers are. I guess they probably sit down with their respective software engineers and say "ok, in the new upgrade, we're going to take away feature "X". But, we won't re-work anything. We'll just move it from this place to that over there. They're idiots anyway. They won't be able to figure out a way to get that feature back."
I often think that the actual brains are the consumers who tinker their gadgets rather than the ones involved in the development and design of the actual product.
The auto-playlist wasn't taken out for some evil reason or just to screw with the customers. The Zune 2.0 software was brand new from the ground up whereas the Zune 1 software was basically a theme/graphic shell on top of Windows Media Player. As a result a lot of features got cut due to development time constraints. Auto-playlists is one of the things on their list to add in Zune 2.X revisions.
Take it from a guy who has worked in Support, most of them are stupid or at least not as knowledgeable about electronics as most engadget readers would be!!
Actually it's "ok, in the new upgrade, we're going to take away feature 'X', but then we'll add it back in a later upgrade and everyone will get all excited and generate a buzz about how great a job Microsoft is doing with the Zune."