Who cares what it looks like? Most of the market. Looks are, sadly, everything. And when you have to stare at the ugly splash screen every time you boot or plug it in for as much as a minute while it does, indeed, block part of the screen (percentage is irrelevant when it's the CENTER), it matters more. Granted I could probably manage to make due with the thing and work around its shortcomings, but I'm not its target market. Its target market are people far less knowledgeable than you and I who are far more easily frustrated by its poor design. And none of its design flaws aren't easily overcome by better effort on the part of the designer.
“The basic layout of the HD2 is uncluttered and uncomplicated, providing only a few hardware buttons, and leaving the rest of the navigation up to that beautiful screen.”
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Who cares what it looks like? Most of the market. Looks are, sadly, everything. And when you have to stare at the ugly splash screen every time you boot or plug it in for as much as a minute while it does, indeed, block part of the screen (percentage is irrelevant when it's the CENTER), it matters more. Granted I could probably manage to make due with the thing and work around its shortcomings, but I'm not its target market. Its target market are people far less knowledgeable than you and I who are far more easily frustrated by its poor design. And none of its design flaws aren't easily overcome by better effort on the part of the designer.