When did innovation die?: I love new stuff. I am a geek at heart and love gadgets of every kind. I almost didn't buy a new lawn mower recently because I read that some guy was developing an electric riding mower. That would be cool! In some areas I am an early adopter, in other areas I like to sit back and see what is going to happen. In doing so I recognize that I miss the boat in some cool stuff, but that is the price that I pay. When I bought my digital camera a year ago (3,000 images ago!) I had no doubt that I was buying the best camera on the market at the time and that I would have little problems. The camera was from one of the most respected manufacturers, and they had a long history of turning out great stuff. I was saving for one model and the newest version was released right when I was ready to buy. It was a no brainer.
But, it took me 5 years to get an iPod, and I never really got one, I got one for my beloved. I knew that after 5 years that they had a solid following and recognized any bugs that they might have had were long since fixed. We got a 30gb model so that we could add some movies if we wanted to. We haven't, but we think we could with a little tinkering (I know, I know, I already have the software, we just haven't messed with it yet).
Now we are about to see Microsoft launch Zune, and I have been reading a lot of stuff on the new device. Pictures have been leaked, and it looks amazingly similar to the iPod. In fact, it plays music, podcasts, and videos. It doesn't do anything else. That pretty much sounds like an iPod. It is $100 more than an iPod, so I am sure that it will do SOMETHING better. But for reasons that I can't comprehend they aren't talking about it. There was a rumor that it was going to have some sort of game port to play Xbox games, but they have now said that isn't going to happen. I sit here scratching my head. This is the largest technology company in the world, they just can't crank out anything exciting anymore. Thousands of people, you would think that someone could come up with something so exciting that people would quickly trash their iPods in favor of the Zune. But, I know that the good folks at Redmond are up to their eyeballs getting ready for the November, oops, December, oops, January launch of Vista. What great innovations that one has!
But, it took me 5 years to get an iPod, and I never really got one, I got one for my beloved. I knew that after 5 years that they had a solid following and recognized any bugs that they might have had were long since fixed. We got a 30gb model so that we could add some movies if we wanted to. We haven't, but we think we could with a little tinkering (I know, I know, I already have the software, we just haven't messed with it yet).
Now we are about to see Microsoft launch Zune, and I have been reading a lot of stuff on the new device. Pictures have been leaked, and it looks amazingly similar to the iPod. In fact, it plays music, podcasts, and videos. It doesn't do anything else. That pretty much sounds like an iPod. It is $100 more than an iPod, so I am sure that it will do SOMETHING better. But for reasons that I can't comprehend they aren't talking about it. There was a rumor that it was going to have some sort of game port to play Xbox games, but they have now said that isn't going to happen. I sit here scratching my head. This is the largest technology company in the world, they just can't crank out anything exciting anymore. Thousands of people, you would think that someone could come up with something so exciting that people would quickly trash their iPods in favor of the Zune. But, I know that the good folks at Redmond are up to their eyeballs getting ready for the November, oops, December, oops, January launch of Vista. What great innovations that one has!
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