It was interesting that when I searched the Zune/Vista topic, I got an avalanche of Apple sites and forums, and that they were at least a month old. But after cutting my way through all the Apples, I found more recent sites showing that it can be compatable and will definitely be when I get Vista in the first quarter. However, I still won't get a Zune until I see an improved 2nd gen.
and one would hope that third parties start making better themes than the 3 lame ones included
How can somone who favors iPod complain about the included themes when iPods have none, no matter how bad they are? (unless there have been upgrades I'm unaware of)
asked him why and he said he really liked his iPod because there were a TON of accessories for it, everything he could imagine.
That was a major part of the genius of iPod; getting people to buy all the accessories. But the first iPods of course didn't have all that, or the market share. Which is why I can't understand why people are ragin on Zune for having no accessories or the market share to make the Wifi more usable. Did you really expect 30 million people to go buy them in a month??? As with iPod, as sales go up, more accessories will come and Wifi will be more handy.
Apple did more or less get in on the ground floor similar to Palm and PDA's. One of the reasons Palm OS has been able to hold market share is because there wasn't much competition and they had a lot of apps to root them in the market.
I don't like turning it sideways to watch video,
I feel sorry for this guy, because if Apple wants to improve screen size and keep portability, their going to have to follow suit, unless they make the entire UI widescreen, which would unfortuantely decrease your menu viewing realestate. And I think a touch screen plus video-watching is a very bad idea unless you're wearing gloves.
I suspect the Gen 6 iPod(s) is/are going to be a bigger jump than just WiFi, but only time will tell.
What kind of jump are you thinking? Other than WiFi, about the only thing to do, in terms of connectivity, would be some kind of cell phone technology, which would have to be paid for monthly/yearly.