Follow footnote to see explanation that this storage estimate requires encoding songs as 64 kbps WMA, which bit rate is half that of Apple’s default of 128 kbps AAC, and roughly equivalent in fidelity to that of transmissions carried over tin cans and string, but which, perhaps, is not a dirty marketing trick, but, rather, a fair assessment, considering that anyone with such profoundly bad taste in industrial design who would consider purchasing this device probably also has such bad taste in music as not to notice that their 64 kbps-compressed songs sound like mush.

-- John Gruber in Rhymes With Ditty - a brilliant ripping apart of the new Dell wannabe mp3 player.

Moral of the story: The front end is important because its what your customers use, dumbass.

Moral of the story for storytelling: (Classical) cinematic storytelling has a lot of similarities with design - its about the front end. The front end is what the audience sees and hears. It should teach the audience how to read the film without them even having to think about it.