I have never had a real reason to buy an mp3 player. But I will be on the move almost constantly for the next six months; I now have my reason. Within hours of my purchase of an Apple iPod 80gig Classic, I discover Keith has received a Microsoft Zune for Christmas. After suggesting we bring our machines and have them battle to the death (plus internet research later) I discovered the following:
Same price, same hard drive space, same audio quality, basically same set of features, same weight and overall size.
Zune screen is much larger.
iPod battery lasts a lot longer.
Zune accepts more video formats.
Zune only works on PCs and noticed that software only runs on Vista. iPod works on both platforms and all OS versions. Noting also that my music is primarily on a Mac and it sorted on that Mac, iPod wins here.
Zune does not recognize DRM copyright protection meaning you can legally purchase music but will not have the ability to play it.
Zune requires software hacking to accept Unicode. When trying display a non-Roman based alphabet the words show up as squares or as gibberish instead of the correct letters or characters. What this means is I will not be able to read any of the song names of my Asian music; which is almost all of it.
If you are curious what your computer can read and what it can't click on any of the following links to see if there is Asian script or a bunch of small boxes:
Test Korean
Test Japanese
Test Chinese Simplified
If Unicode is not supported then it also means I will have a really hard time getting a Zune repaired anywhere in Asia, meanwhile there are a number of Apple Authorized Resellers in multiple Asian countries. The warranty reason alone is worth me keeping the iPod and the Unicode reason really hammers it home.
End result: I am really happy with what I bought and don't feel any regret~^____^ v
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