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Originally Posted by Graham
iPods looked cooler; sounded worse. Apple's brilliant at marketing, and most people don't buy with their ears. And the combination of iTunes and iPod, the beginning of that brilliant ecosystem, was the clincher.
I'm a musician, and my mp3 players were both Creative Zens, but I can see why most people went for iPods.
Graham
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I had a Creative Zen, too, back in the day. I'm not a musician so I have no particular audiophile credentials, but I do recall that it played 128kbps mp3s same as any other music player and that its PC software was horribly slow and buggy. It was also button controlled, which was far less efficient than the iPod's scroll wheel, the element that really led to its massive success.