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@James R. Stoup Dearest James, You are a congenital moron, and you have my sympathy. And everyone else who thinks that MS is stealing money: Consider first that you can buy an ITunes gift card from a retailer with potential "unusable" leftover pennies, just as you can purchase a Zune Marketplace giftcard from a retailer with potential "unusable" leftover pennies. Next consider that to get any substantial "upgrade" to an iPod to get all those trendy gen-X zippy new cool "can't live without 'em" features, you need a $250 patch (i.e. iPod generation X + 1) where MS made all new Zune features available free to first generation Zune owners. So for MY $250, I can purchase 253 more songs. While YOUR $250 gets you all the same Emo and Russian Astro-Pop you already had. Not to mention the time wasted moving all that crap over to the "upgrade." And apple in general is a money pit. How many different machines and operating systems have they released in the last 10 years? What happens when they're obsolete? You buy a new one. What happens when the OS is garbage? You buy a new one. What happens when THAT one is also garbage? You give users the ability to dual-boot back to a decent iteration. When that fails? You buy Virtual PC and Microsoft Office to squeeze whatever "value" you can from your bloated "investment." Or what the HEY!!! Just boot right to Windows XP! Sure I can dig my AppleII out of the attic and it will probably still run, but ... seriously ... it's not 1970 anymore ... we can ALL have long filenames now, OK? And if a simple conversion chart (i.e. X dollars == Y points, Z points == 1 Song) is just SO difficult for you to comprehend then, no, the Zune is not for you ... neither are brownie recipes. I applaud MS for assuming their target audience has a brain ... unlike Apple, who runs their ad campaigns like Socialist Propoganda. "YOU MUST HAVE THIS! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING! IT'S SO EASY! WE KNOW YOU CAN'T HANDLE A COMPUTER ALL ON YOUR OWN!!! WE'RE IN CONTROL! just lie down ... that's right ... drink the kool-aid ... that's right ..." And of course you can always just get an unlimited download subscription service through the Zune Marketplace ... which (unlike iTunes) DOESN'T look like Lotus Notes circa 1983 ... why would ANYONE want to emulate THAT!?!?!