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Zune 30 Failing EVERYWHERE, All At Once!
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This is a feature rather than a bug. Its purpose is to get the Zune's owners to socialize for the new year party on the Zune forums.
Laugh it up, Fuzzball!
Well, I'm glad the Apple users are getting a kick out of this. And while I don't have a Zune, I offer this kind rebuttal on their behalf: iPhone 2.0. Within two month's of it's release Apple had to produce 4 seperate bug fixes. And lest we forget MobileMe and its successful launch.
This is something that Apple should really look into. What happens to Zune can happen to iPod/iPhone. Especially if it is a software bug. With millions of iPhones out there, it would destroy Apple's good image if they all crapped at the same time after the 2.2.1 or 2.3 update.
At least for Microsoft it was just an MP3 player.
Well, I'm glad the Apple users are getting a kick out of this. And while I don't have a Zune, I offer this kind rebuttal on their behalf: iPhone 2.0. Within two month's of it's release Apple had to produce 4 seperate bug fixes. And lest we forget MobileMe and its successful launch.
This is something that Apple should really look into. What happens to Zune can happen to iPod/iPhone. Especially if it is a software bug. With millions of iPhones out there, it would destroy Apple's good image if they all crapped at the same time after the 2.2.1 or 2.3 update.
At least for Microsoft it was just an MP3 player.
yes true, at least only an mp3 player but it is an mp3 player that already is not really differentiating itself from the market offering only the social thing. it does keep good track of old hardware but... this will cause a major hurt to their zune programme.
i hope it gets fixed. but then again, there are probably very few on this forum who need it to be as you have to have windows to use this hardware: that is a shame.
i hope it gets fixed. but then again, there are probably very few on this forum who need it to be as you have to have windows to use this hardware: that is a shame.
This is a huge black eye for MS. Why wasn't this noticed before now? What other products have similar Achilles heels waiting to be discovered by their consumers?
The iPhone didn't have a bug that stopped the entire system from working.
So what are the Shuffles, Nanos and Classics all about?
I don't know if this was already posted, but Microsoft has acknowledged that there is a problem (top right of page):
http://www.zune.net:80/en-US/support
http://www.zune.net:80/en-US/support
Don't worry, M$ has assured Zune users that they will fix the firmware before 2012 (the next leap year)
That's not true. Apple writes its own software for its devices, and Microsoft writes their own. If Microsoft messed up with the date, does that mean it will happen to Apple's devices? No.
Just an MP3 player? Lets revisit the Xbox 360's red ring of death issue. They quite obviously aren't doing a few things right and are now having many problems because of it. You can't really pass this off as being 'just an MP3 player'. If it happened to their OS, could you imagine what would happen?
http://forums.zune.net/412486/ShowPost.aspx
Well, that's it! The official fix is to wait until tomorrow. I'm sure this is the fix, but how funny would it be if it did not work and all of the Zune's were messed up? Anywho, nice job again MS.
Well, camon - Let's be nice, calendars are a very tough concept.
Well, that's it! The official fix is to wait until tomorrow. I'm sure this is the fix, but how funny would it be if it did not work and all of the Zune's were messed up? Anywho, nice job again MS.
True, Apple figured out calenders in 1984, it seems M$ is still struggling...
Well, camon - Let's be nice, calendars are a very tough concept.
Schadenfreude when MS has a failure is always fun, and I am definitely enjoying my schadenfreude for this event. But at the same time we have to be fair about the situation. All companies' products have occasional major bugs, including Apple. Though to be honest again, this is a REALLY huge bug on MS's part. This is a failure that's on a scale I've never seen before in a major digital consumer device. But it's also a bug that's probably easily fixable. The latest I heard is that this crash is due to the system not being aware of the leap day we have this year, so it's entirely possible that all the zunes might suddenly start working again tomorrow. And if they don't automatically fix themselves tomorrow, I'm sure a simple fix will be coming down the chute in the next day or two.
So I guess I'm saying, let's all enjoy our schadenfreude against MS, but lets also not go overboard, because you don't want to tempt fate. If you take too much joy in MS's suffering, that'll tempt fate to make a similar level of failure befall an Apple product.
So I guess I'm saying, let's all enjoy our schadenfreude against MS, but lets also not go overboard, because you don't want to tempt fate. If you take too much joy in MS's suffering, that'll tempt fate to make a similar level of failure befall an Apple product.
True, Apple figured out calenders in 1984, it seems M$ is still struggling...
Well, the Mayan's had it figured out thousands of years ago...
Well yes they can be complicated these days I guess. With all these 'the world is going to end on Tuesday, April 5th, 2065' how can you program anything?
I wonder what happens if they don't fix tomorrow.
The headlines are either going to be "30GB Zune's are doomed" or "Magic, presumed to be leprechauns, fixed every 30GB Zune last night".
Failed 30GB iPod
My fiance just showed me her 30GB black iPod that is frozen. She said this morning when she woke up it was like that. I took a look at it and it is indeed frozen. It's stuck on the Do Not Disconnect screen. Can't reset or power it off. This'll be fun.
My fiance just showed me her 30GB black iPod that is frozen. She said this morning when she woke up it was like that. I took a look at it and it is indeed frozen. It's stuck on the Do Not Disconnect screen. Can't reset or power it off. This'll be fun.
Well, the Mayan's had it figured out thousands of years ago...
To be fair, Apple left all New Zealanders out for a loop when they refuse to update the new daylight savings time changeover until AFTER it happened.
Apple put out four software updates in two months to fix bugs. Obviously Apple isn't perfect in their software writing either. These Zunes all crashed on the SAME DAY. These things don't happen by chance. Odds are this is a disgruntled employee who put in a bad line of code and Apple is not immune to this. Microsoft has made billions of dollars more money than Apple selling its software. Odds are Microsoft knows what it is doing. One line of code, gone unnoticed, can cause this. And as Apple gains more and more market share, the attacks on their own software will increase. But if you think Apple doesn't make mistakes, then why is there a forum filled with things Apple should add or fix?
But Windows doesn't crash, if you use it right. I've used Vista from the onset and have never had an issue. And I have a 360. I've had it since early 2006 and, again, I've never had a problem.
My point is that Apple needs to immediately review what's been written and add some more quality control measures. Because if a disgruntled employee does this to Apple and their iPhone, they knock out a phone that is used worldwide. As opposed to an MP3 player used streetwide. The economic consequences could be tremendous.
Oh dear... I would suggest that you rephrase that "Windows doesn't crash for me, regardless of how I use it."
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Nail in the coffin for zune. The smartest thing MS can do now is to officially discontinue and kill the zune product line. Put the embarrassment behind them in 2009.