I stuck with Creative players for years because the software gelled with my sound cards. I found them frustrating and counter-intuitive. The last straw came when my player stopped working and Creative offered no online or digital support save a firmware update that fried my player back to the Stone Age. I said “F it” and bought an iPod and I haven’t looked back. They are simple, easy to use, intuitive, and iTunes is a no-brainer. It’s no wonder iPods are crushing everything else.
Really? I bought a 4gig creative zen v plus a couple years ago. I’ve dropped that sucker 4 or 5 times while riding my bike and it still works fine. S’all scratched up but plays music. (The four gigs no longer really satisfies my musical needs but whatever. And it will play songs that I download off of spiralfrog.com so there’s another plus.
Not exactly a product, but a food store with an odd twist opened near us awhile back. Their feature was that all their food products were cross-referenced by dietary restriction. So, if you were a lactose-intolerant vegetarian who has a wheat allergy, you simply looked up all the products with green tags and codes 92 and 315 on them.
I told my wife they’d be out of business in a year, but I don’t think they even lasted 6 months.
How about “Orbitz” soda? Just what people want - a drink with things floating in it.