It has been no accident that Microsoft has chosen the past year to break in to the MP3 player market. Issues of company diversification aside, as an established market the MP3 player market has in the past year finally matured. For Apple this is a troubling news, as they must now compete with themselves to sell new iPods since they can no longer bank on market growth to keep their sales high. Meanwhile for Microsoft this is great news, as Microsoft's is often at its best when it's time to compete in a mature market where breakthroughs are slow and the risk of competitors blind sighting them is low.If you want just audio the reviewer recommends the iPod Classic but if you want to play video too you ought to get the iPod Touch.
The MP3 players we will be looking at today represent the shifts in product styles that come with that maturation. From Apple we have the old guard and the new guard; the iPods Classic and Touch respectively. From Microsoft we have the Zune 80, a product that is both the old and new guards at the same time, striving to fix what ailed the first Zune in the process. How do these MP3 players stack up? Let's find out.
iPod Classic vs iPod Touch vs Zune 80
Posted on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 22:14 CET by Thomas De MaesschalckAnandTech has taken a look at the high-end MP3 player market. You can check it out over here, they took a look at Apple's iPod classic and Touch and the Microsoft Zune 80.
