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Originally Posted by rmeister0
A couple of points.
But to say "iPods never matched Creative's exellent mp3 products in ease of use or power" is absurd. That is, of course, why Apple dominates the digital music player market, and why Creative has sunk millions into its marketing "war" and has practically nothing to show for it. Apple is not a computer company; they are a consumer electronics company that happens to make computer products. They understand consumer electronics in a way that very few other technology companies do.
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disagreed. the reason I see the ipods excelling in the common market is because of their excellent advertising, if anything. In my southern california area, anyway, i have never seen an advertisement besides the apple ipods. Noone has even heard of an MP3 other than the ipods! Almost everyone I have ever seen at my high school is completely shocked to have seen my archos gmini 400, which stunned them, (played video before the video ipod came out. "oohs and aahs" from the past) and my creative zen vision:M, which people actually scoff at for being for the tech-saavy exclusive (better screen, FM radio/voice recorder, can play more video codecs as well as audio, better button system IMO, longer video battery, better sound quality) The big dilemma, as I see it, is that if anyone ever heard of products other than apple, and were convinced that they were not simply knockoff products to "the only mp3 player", then that would be one step forward for the MP3 market in america, or at LEAST the west coast.