VS. Battle: iPod vs. Zune

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Honestly, who cares? They both play music; they both play videos; they're both priced stupidly. The only person who benefits from this is the consumer, so good for us.

Honestly, all this does is make it an even more open playing field for someone else to step in and blow all the competition away. We've seen this kind of product warfare in the form of gaming consoles. Frankly, one-party systems are broken and in need of reform (as proven by our recent election). Something needed to step up and keep the iPod from slipping into redundancy. Fortunately, most systems can't even function for long as dualities. It will be interesting to see who is the third party to come to the table with a product that's even more outrageous.

If I had to put my $250 somewhere, I would put it on the Zune, just because it's the new kid on the block and needs to be successful to launch an inevitable MP3 arms race.

Winner: Zune