“I met the MusicGremlin guys a year ago or so, and was prepared to hate them. Founders from McKinsey (and involved in SDMI – run, run away as fast as you can). You know the type: Great SATS, never shipped a product. I was pleasantly surprised to find them not to be the total @ssholes I expected,” David Card, Jupiter’s Research Development VP, blogs. “But my question then, and now, was: how do you find songs on a wireless download device?”
Apparently Mossberg agrees with my prime concern:
To pick a song out of a list, you have to laboriously enter letters of the alphabet using the down arrow, and many functions require lots of arrow clicks and navigating fly-out submenus. Again, the company promises to improve some of this navigation.
Card writes, “Jeezum Crow, I can ‘promise to improve some of this navigation.’ This is the core freaking problem, Walt. Yet he gives them — for a non-Apple product — a blow- very positive review. Pray tell, Walt, why on earth do you think normal human beings should be even remotely interested in this ‘product?’ It’s a concept, at best.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Poor Uncle Walt, slapped in the face with the unvarnished truth right there in front of everyone on the World Wide Web.
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