The Zune?

[Sarcasm] Oh hey everybody I want to go spend 300 dollars on an overpriced disabled computer that fits in my pocket! yeah ipod sounded amazing until I realized what crap it was. with the failing battery and stuff.[/sarcasm]

I'm struggling to understand why some one should spend 300$ on a crippled computer with a tiny hard drive just to hear music. It seems like too much effort money and time to be beneficial to have specialized mobile computing. The only reason I could see spending that kind of money is if it was just a platform for running everything that my laptop can.

But then again if anything happens to you and your monsterous investment while your weight lifting trying to shut out trashy pop music in the gym then all of the sudden you've lost everything. It's just a disposable underapreciated peice of hard ware.

Mobile computing is suposed to be this special place in the tech market. It's like looking for the holigram, or the flying car. Basically it could be very useful if people knew exactly what they wanted out of it, then they could design to those needs. When it comes to things like PDA's, mobile gaming devices, mp3 players, cell phones, people tend to think that they just need a whole office building in a small box. like it's gonna be so much better to watch a movie in a car on a screen no bigger then the palm of your hand. Or like your calculator really needs to keep a phone book and a calendar, what frickin' waste! With all that precious bandwidth good programs could be made. like a light weight 3d modeling/animation tool (says the 3d artist in me).

It's just not useful to add unnecessary crap on to something and call it "features". It's like if I sold you a sketch pad with diagrams of skeletons and army tanks pre-sketched in there and I called them features. Like I really want your rendition of what the future of computing should be.

I shall spend my next three hundred dollars wisely by not buying a zune or ipod.