The iPod classic was announced on September 5th and released on September 7th of this year. The 80gb Zune was announced on October 2nd and released on November 12th. Therefore, the 'some time' you refer to is only a couple of months. If you mean that the general concept has been around for a while, so has the Zune (although by no means as long, it has still been around for long enough). By asking for a comparison to the iPod Touch, your are suggesting that we ignore the hard drive capacity (as has already been stated), the price, and the category it's under. The iPod Touch is, without a doubt, a remarkable device that is aimed at an entirely different market and thus a comparison would definitely be an 'apples to oranges' comparison.
In my opinion the zune is the way to go for all non-mac users. Better and Big Screen, just as cool interface, radio, wireless syncing. All of these are things that are great about the zune and missing on the iPod. GO ZUNE!!!!!!!!!!!

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