Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Microsoft to Kill Off Development of New Zune Hardware

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8F190)

Really now. How many of these pretend iPods did these doofuses think they were going to sell? The outcome was obvious.

Next to go: WP7.
 
This is on page 2 because it isn't really news. It was just a foregone conclusion. But why MS prolonged the pain and embarrassment is beyond me.

I wonder in how many new and wonderful ways they'll piss away R&D money in the near future.
 
*LTD* said:
This is on page 2 because it isn't really news. It was just a foregone conclusion. But why MS prolonged the pain and embarrassment is beyond me.

I wonder in how many new and wonderful ways they'll piss away R&D money in the near future.
Click to expand...

welcome back ltd!

.......

close the thread, the zune is dead now
 
Porco said:
As I posted in a more obscure thread,

Never forget that the zune brought us this:

http://static.flickr.com/103/294929001_b67b0b5225.jpg

I still find it a little disturbing but I think it's also possibly the single funniest thing I've ever seen involving Microsoft.

I have never actually used a zune. They looked ok really, except the brown one (IMHO).
Click to expand...

I was about to say - here's my original post:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/3059225/

plus the Ballmer quote:

"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation...

That's [an] experience," he said.

OMG - what did she get "squirted"? :eek:

;)

Ah, threads about Zune - good times... :D
 
Last edited by a moderator:
zune dead.

next, win7 mobile.

m$ need to innovate something if ever want to be ahead of apple.
 
dejo said:
So, now Zune software is gonna compete with Windows Phone 7? :confused:
Click to expand...

Zune now being used to brand the synchronisation software and music service - it no longer has anything to do with hardware in much the same way that iTunes is the player and music service with the iPod/iPhone being the devices themselves.

Personally I made no sense what so ever doing the hardware given that Microsoft was better suited focusing on the software and then letting the various vendors out there sort out the hardware details. IMHO I do think that they should expand Windows Phone 7 to include media players and tablets as well.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

What's a Zune??!?

Ha ha
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

We now need a Zune app.
 
Avalontor said:
really? breathe deep and try that again, you're not even close.
Click to expand...

You might want to look stock prices if you doubt his comment about Microsoft. I've had Apple stock less than two years and have over doubled my initial $50K investment.

msft-aapl-chart.png
 
*LTD* said:
This is on page 2 because it isn't really news. It was just a foregone conclusion. But why MS prolonged the pain and embarrassment is beyond me.

I wonder in how many new and wonderful ways they'll piss away R&D money in the near future.
Click to expand...

Microsoft could have so easily saved face had they just sold the Zune brand, manufacturing rights, etc. to some second-tier company, even if just for a token amount of a dollar. They could have said that they sold it to concentrate on their "core business" or some such nonsense and then, when it went belly up, Microsoft would not be holding the reins.
 
ggbrown said:
Concur. Never once saw a Zune.

I get the sense MS is scrambling to catch up. They are a software company, and Apple is a hardware & software company (and I'll concede in many cases hardware = gadgets). However,they are all driven by a few streams of software which they continue to improve upon.
Click to expand...

Sounds like you need to get out more.
 
Last edited:
The was always like the drunk 16 year old girl who arrives at a party in 4am and wonders why everyone is going home.

Though there wasn't anything that tragic about the Zune it just arrived on the Marketplace by far too late to gain any momentum or traction. The other main issue was that it was supposed to be the "first" real competition for the iPod yet it couldn't do anything better than an iPod, the *only* real thing it had upon release over the iPod was an FM tuner (BFD)...

Again I am really surprised they didn't spin off the XBOX360 success with a more integrated or game based Zune, it would have been a winner IMHO.
 
I could never figure out what the problem was with the screen margins. Look how the last letter in "Marketplace" is cut off. This drove me insane when I first saw this image - I thought it was a beta screen. But this was how it shipped apparently. I've noticed the same thing happen in some of the WinPhone7 screen shots and product demos. Can anyone explain this to me? What were the designers thinking?

zunehd.jpg
 
blackpond said:
I could never figure out what the problem was with the screen margins. Look how the last letter in "Marketplace" is cut off. This drove me insane when I first saw this image - I thought it was a beta screen. But this was how it shipped apparently. I've noticed the same thing happen in some of the WinPhone7 screen shots and product demos. Can anyone explain this to me? What were the designers thinking?
Click to expand...

The lettering off screen symbolizes that there is more to see for that choice.
 
I think people are reading way way to much into this. I see it as more the zune will become more like wp7 with out the phone much like how the iPod touch is an iPhone minus the phone part.
Zune set the stage for wp7 and now zune is going to go the other way.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back