Re:Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review
by toxican on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:28PM
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I think the biggest problem was that nobody took it seriously, and I'm not really sure why. It was easily as good, if not better, than the iPods of the time. I definitely don't think it was an issue of timing though. the iPhone's capacity at launch (8GB) was a joke compared to dedicated players at the time. And music streaming services weren't all the popular. Plus even if they had been, it would be a year until we saw a 3rd party app store on the iPhone.
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>I think the biggest problem was that nobody took it seriously
There was that one guy, who got the tattoo...
Jesus, that guy. He's lucky it's a pretty neat-looking symbol. So in 10 years when nobody recognizes it he can play it off as some obscure video game reference.
Not just one. And considered changing his name to Zune too.
He seemed to regret it though.
http://www.wired.com/2009/09/zune-tattoo/
It was too little, too late. They were roughly as good as a well established option, with a better ecosystem. There is nothing compelling about that, and as noted the dedicated player was about to get its lunch eaten (not that anybody knew this).