not one, not 2, not 3 but 13 different people i know owning zen micro had to sent it for repairs within the 1st 3 months of ownerships. it just totally sucks and how can sim wong who be so cocky.

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Creative Technology Ltd. on Tuesday announced that on Aug. 9 it won what the company calls the "Zen Patent," which covers the user interface for its Zen and Nomad MP3 players. In a statement, Creative added that the patented interface is also "found in some competing players, such as the Apple iPod and iPod mini."

Creative CEO and chairman Sim Wong Hoo, who earlier this year declared "war" on Apple, said in the statement: "The first portable media player based upon the user interface covered in our Zen Patent was our NOMAD Jukebox MP3 player. We shipped the NOMAD Jukebox to U.S. retail customers in September of 2000. The Apple iPod was only announced in October 2001, 13 months after we had been shipping the NOMAD Jukebox based upon the user interface covered by our Zen Patent."

Mr. Sim went on to say: "Before this invention, there was no intuitive and efficient way to deal with the large number of tracks that could be stored on a high-capacity player."

The patent, which Creative applied for on Jan. 5, 2001, specifically covers "a method of selecting at least one track from a plurality of tracks stored in a computer-readable medium of a portable media player configured to present sequentially a first, second, and third display screen on the display of the media player, the plurality of tracks accessed according to a hierarchy, the hierarchy having a plurality of categories, subcategories, and items respectively in a first, second, and third level of the hierarchy."
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Upon further look, one would realise how far the fucker is digging into his own grave. I OWN the nomad jukebox and the user interface in no way resembles the iPod. iPod is so user friendly, only people who are less than idiots won't know how to use it. Further more, "hierarchal structure" applies for everything, from your handphone to your computer explorer folders sytem (if you don't own a mac) or the finder (if you are a mac owner) while it can claim to have sold the jukebox 1st and hence claim patent to the invention, it can't claim apple copied them. back in the 1980's people already written the hierarchail menu

in fact like how EVERYBODY will tell you, how creative copied apple, from the design of their remote control to the user MENU where even the battery placing is in the same spot with the same font.

WAKE UP SIM WONG WHO!? WE ALL HATE YOU! I'LL M*RD*R YOU AND V*ND*L*S* YOUR BUILDING!