Another perspective on why Zune HD is a failure...
"Bad Idea #5. Go one better. As the rise and fall of Friendfeed
indicates, copying the basic functionality of a successful
application (Twitter, in this case) and adding a few new features --
doing the same thing slightly "better" from some perspective --
doesn't usually lead to attracting many users away from the copied
application.
It takes a radical recast of functionality -- a revolutionary
increase in capabilities, or a new paradigm of use -- to get people
to drop something they have been happily using and to adopt some
alternative, especially when they are connected to many other users
by the application. But you'd better expect to see "better
mousetraps" of all descriptions continue to appear -- and then fade
away."
Five Common Pitfalls of Web Applications
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=180607
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