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Zune 30 Failing EVERYWHERE, All At Once!
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If you're an Apple fanboy who jumps on any slight error from Redmond and turns a blind eye to any and all screw-ups by Cupertino, maybe.
This is getting much more 'airtime' than the fact that the iPhone doesn't have MMS. It does look worse.
I think just shows how Zune users can all "pull together" socially and overcome this trial set before them... 
History shows us that "older devices" are prone to breakdowns, and a purchase to the latest/greatest model is neccessary. I think the new versions are not having problems.
Great job, Microsoft!
History shows us that "older devices" are prone to breakdowns, and a purchase to the latest/greatest model is neccessary. I think the new versions are not having problems.
Great job, Microsoft!
You don't have to be a fanboy (or know anything about tech at all) to notice that this is a pretty big f@$kup. I don't ever recall ANY company having to deal with millions of their products going kaput all at once. Can you imagine what would happen if, say, everyone driving a Honda Civic suddenly crashed because their engines all gave out at the same time?
Looks like from the Zune 30 forum, M$ is reporting that about half of their Zunes still aren't working after the supposed "fix" and have to wait another day.
Guess some people will be leaving the "social".
Would suck to be a Zune 30 owner, and some Zune 80 owners that are reporting the same problem. Then again, when you make shoddy software, you should expect the same shoddy hardware.
Keep up the great work M$, because without you a lot of people wouldn't have problems to fix.
Guess some people will be leaving the "social".
Would suck to be a Zune 30 owner, and some Zune 80 owners that are reporting the same problem. Then again, when you make shoddy software, you should expect the same shoddy hardware.
Keep up the great work M$, because without you a lot of people wouldn't have problems to fix.
Just do a little swapperoony, Apple have never had all their product range crash out (with that approx 50% failure rate for the fix). This isn't a slight problem that got fixed, or a simple replacement part (PB battery recall anyone?). This is an entire line going kaput!
Kaput for 24 hours. If the devices were bricked permanently, it would be a bigger deal, but it's just an inconvenience.
Those are failures in one application of a product. Stay away from those app's and you still had an otherwise operable piece of hardware.
Oh don't worry, just wait until tomorrow at noon, they'll be fixed be then.
I do consider myself to be an optimist, but even I have my doubts...
It's a software bug for one day.
The headphone jack on my MBP has never ever worked properly, nor ever will. For a 'pro' product, that's more than a bit lame.
For a huge number of paying .Mac users - their email was deleted. Gone.
For days, Mobile Me was unusable. Kaput.
MB's/MBP's not taking DDR3.
Swathes of £70 DL-DVI adaptors dying.
I know which I consider the least troublesome. Infact, I would trade a week of my iPod being dead, to let my Senheisser headphones work on my MBP without hissing or the Mic socket to work with an ordinary headset that ANY PC will happily use, or Keynote to export to MOV with commentary in sync, or iDisk to be useable, or Time Machine to actually frickin work with my £200 Time Capsule, or the wireless range to be anything other than a sham, or iSync to work with more than about 12 mobile phones, or...
Seriously - in terms of IT problems - this isn't a big one. But because it's Microsoft and not mighty Apple - it's clearly, the end of the world.
Well said djellison. Apple has certainly had some missteps in the past, but I would venture to say that none of them have been as high-profile as the great Zune holocaust of 2008, with the possible exception of the hockey puck mouse.
So first, Windows wasn't millennium compliant, and now Zunes aren't leap year compliant? How stupid are some of the people at Microsoft?
This reminds me of an old Douglas Adams quote:
This reminds me of an old Douglas Adams quote:
In case it hasn't been posted yet, Microsoft announced the official fix.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7807797.stm
Unbelievably...
Nice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7807797.stm
Unbelievably...
Nice.
LOL I can see you guys loved that one!
Whoever posted the Cat and Admiral Ackbar, you had me rolling.
Whoever posted the Cat and Admiral Ackbar, you had me rolling.
Quite so. +1. I admit, once in a while Garageband crashes, or Safari crashes (I think each has crashed once in the last year) - but I can still use the machine.
...and at least Apple's customer service is miles ahead of everyone else's for when you do have a problem. I had trouble with Windows on my old Sony Vaio. I call Sony, they say it's the OS and refer me to M$. M$ tells me it's the manufacturer and refers me to Sony, who then attempts to refer me back to M$ (who I did end up speaking with again and another occasion and was referred back to Sony..). In the meantime the computer simply doesn't work.
