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Microsoft Announces 2nd Generation Zune Music Player

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Microsoft has reportedly sold 1.2 million Zunes since its launch in November 2006.

Wow! I had no idea that Microsoft has 1.2 million employees!
 
So before everyone goes off on an "OMG ZUNE SUX LOLZ!!!!" tirade, have you actually used a Zune before? Or are you just saying that stuff because Microsoft makes them?


I've never used a Zune, so I'll reserve judgement until I've at least touched one. And you should too, because you don't like it when Windows fanboys go "OMG MAC SUX0RS!!!!" when they've never used one
 
yg17 said:
I've never used a Zune, so I'll reserve judgement until I've at least touched one. And you should too, because you don't like it when Windows fanboys go "OMG MAC SUX0RS!!!!" when they've never used one
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I won't comment on the usage: the things we don't know. But I WILL comment on the facts: the things we do. :)
 
yg17 said:
So before everyone goes off on an "OMG ZUNE SUX LOLZ!!!!" tirade, have you actually used a Zune before? Or are you just saying that stuff because Microsoft makes them?


I've never used a Zune, so I'll reserve judgement until I've at least touched one. And you should too, because you don't like it when Windows fanboys go "OMG MAC SUX0RS!!!!" when they've never used one
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The interface isn't that bad and the tuner is nice.

It seems a lot snappier then the iPod Mini I used to have and the Classics I've played with in the store.
 
Zune is the new ugly

Er . . . the renewed ugly, I suppose. Barfola. Apparently MS still has a sign above the employees' entrance: "Abandon all taste, ye who enter in."
 
Lol, no point in putting in OS X support anyway.

Nobody with a mac would buy one!!
 
I find it very interesting that Microsoft went with MP3's for their DRM-free format rather than windows media.

Seems out of character for them.

arn
 
Sayer said:
And the dock/pad thing is HUGE. WTF?
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That lower region is already taken up by the components necessary to run the device - might as well tack a jumbo track-pad on top of it. Besides, why would anyone want a larger screen anyway, or a touch screen for that matter? That is sooooooo last summer, with the iPhone and iTouch...:rolleyes:
 
queshy said:
Lol, no point in putting in OS X support anyway.

Nobody with a mac would buy one!!
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Lot's of Windows users will though.

arn said:
I find it very interesting that Microsoft went with MP3's for their DRM-free format rather than windows media.

Seems out of character for them.

arn
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Could be a required thing from the recording companies in order to offer DRM free music.
 
Zune

yg17 said:
So before everyone goes off on an "OMG ZUNE SUX LOLZ!!!!" tirade, have you actually used a Zune before? Or are you just saying that stuff because Microsoft makes them?


I've never used a Zune, so I'll reserve judgement until I've at least touched one. And you should too, because you don't like it when Windows fanboys go "OMG MAC SUX0RS!!!!" when they've never used one
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Played with one for a week - quite amazing how cheap and clunky the unit is in terms of construction, interface, and design. The Zune 2 seems to make for a dramatic improvement over the first, but then again, so would most anything.
 
I totally miss the Brown color on Zunes. If only they released their
second gen in that color! Damn, guess I'm going to have to hunt down a refurb
first gen. :rolleyes:
 
Competition

arn said:
I find it very interesting that Microsoft went with MP3's for their DRM-free format rather than windows media.

Seems out of character for them.

arn
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Seems like they're trying to sweeten the pot for iPod converts.
 
ugly much? they even incorporated the black border that's present on the new iMac screens. and for a multi billion dollar corporation, only selling a million of these in a year is kinda embarrassing...
 
mrkramer said:
I still prefer the iPod touch to these, but I would definitally consider one over a different iPod if they had OS X support. I think that these are the best competition to the iPods currently out there.
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Same here. The 80Gb Zune is a nice device.
 
I would guess that the record labels have a thing or two to say about them using the mp3 format as right now it seems they badly want to wrestle control from Apple. Going with mp3 is the only way to do this as now MS can sell songs for ipods or any other player that might not play even their own format(s).

I'm not sure though that Apple cares too much about "losing control" over the whole store side of the coin. They make their money on ipods and people really like the whole end to end solution of itunes. It'll be interesting to see if MS creates some sort of conduit to dump purchased drm free music into itunes.

But I digress...no one should discount MS. These look like worthwhile updates and I'm all for competition. While I prefer Apple, I know that they prefer their profits over me so if it takes MS to help keep them honest, then so be it. :)
 
Peace said:
Lot's of Windows users will though.



Could be a required thing from the recording companies in order to offer DRM free music.
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Now I'm not gonna be all biased and say ZUNE SUCKS! I've never tried one. Scrap that...I've never even SEEN one!

At least if I saw one the person would be seen as "original". The iPod is THE MP3 player in this universe. Apple has gone too far ahead of others to catch up.

I don't even think windows users would go for a zune. I used to be a windows user and still had iPods!

At my uni, you would think Apple has 99% market share...everyone with a laptop has a mac, and everyone with an mp3 player an iPod. It really is a revolution.
 
hoped for more...

Competition is good and I hoped for something a bit special from the new Zune.

But these new ones just look uninteresting. Even the website (zune.net) is a clunky mess, and there's no mention of the Zune on the US microsoft.com home page today.

It's like Microsoft are almost embarrassed by it.
 
Feel free to correct me on this if the behavior has been updated to work in a way that actually makes sense...

The silliest thing about Zune's wireless sharing is that you have to go hunt down the person who's sharing the song, and get them to squirt (does anyone NOT hate that term?) it to you. In my mind that renders what could be a cool feature pretty much useless. I can't imagine this was Microsoft's choice; but it does have the RIAA's fingerprints all over it.
 
I Think

arn said:
I find it very interesting that Microsoft went with MP3's for their DRM-free format rather than windows media.

Seems out of character for them.

arn
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I was thinking the same thing.

Then I thought, "bodes well for my 80+ GB MP3 collection."

Then I thought, "great, the fact I mention '80 GB,' some tool box will chime right in with 'well MY music collection is 200 GB' and then a bigger tool box will pipe up 'HA! Sux0rs! I own all the MP3 files in the world' and so on and so on."

Then I thought, "I better clarify that I wasn't mentioning '80 GB' as a 'check me out' statistic but more to illustrate that I am glad to see MS adopt MP3 as it more than likely means my collection of MP3 files might have a longer shelf-life than - say - AAC (which I do not own)."

And then I thought, "I could be wrong about the 'shelf-life' thing..."

Which made me think "I gotta think less."
 
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