Pictures and videos of the Zune HD, Microsoft’s next iteration of their portable media player, are coming out on the net. While the features are cool (720p HD video output so you can play it back on a HDTV) and the UI animations are quick and responsive, I just can’t get past the fact that the “e” in “marketplace” on the player’s main menu is being cut off. How can you design and develop a device like this, which no doubt had to go through a crazy amount of sign-offs during it’s birthing process, and let something like that slide? It’s incredibly sloppy.
ha. it’s good to know someone else besides myself notices these kinds of things.
Dear lord. The devil is in the what?
Wow. That’s sad.
…what better QA than to leak pics and let the world review it? surely it was planned right? MS never released poorly tested products….
I first saw it mentioned by John Gruber here and found it humorous.
What’s frustrating about it is the quality of the design in other aspects of this product. Yet, front and center, “Marketplace” doesn’t quite fit.
If they can’t get the interface TEXT right, I wonder what else is going to be sloppy about it. It is beautiful, but that cut-off ‘e’ would drive me crazy every time I saw it.
Maybe they should make ‘Marketplace’s type just a hair smaller so it fits. But, of course, keep the rest of the type the size it currently is.