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Zune HD
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Man, you kiddies are Apple brainwashed easy. How is it not a nice looking product? Sure the brown one was ugly, but you really can't say a screen with a little silver chin is ugly. Unless of course you're saying the iMac is ugly.
App Store? Who cares about that? It's not the app store that makes the iPod Touch/iPhone so great, it's the apps in it. No major developers are going to be behind the Zune, or very few at most. There are so many apps and developers for the iPhone OS because the developers know that it's a major product and it's future products will sell well. That means their apps will sell well. But if you look at the Zune, it's a failed project whose future is looking very bleak. Very few developers will be behind a Zune app store.
And while I do like the Zunes, they can not take down the iPod Touch. They'd have to turn the Zune into a Windows Mobile device to even compete with the Touch. The iPod Touch is a PMP and a PDA. The Zune will never be that without WinMo slapped on. And that would make it's interface horrible. All I can see from this supposed Zune HD (which is probably a fake, everybody) is it playing videos, music, having photos, music sharing, and probably slap some crappy mobile web browser on it so it is more like the iPod Touch. I see this crashing and burning financially like the Zunes before it and they'll fail to take down the iPod once again.
That whoosh is the sound of the point going completely over your head.
Big ugly black border + second unnecessary silver chin = UGLY. Deal with it.
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Ok seriously.....what is the benefit of HD video on a tiny device like the iPod Touch or this Zune HD?
-Kevin
-Kevin
No offense, but I can almost guarantee the Zune HD will not be HDD based. It'll be flash based like the Touch.
Competition is good. It looks pretty, but take out the artwork and I have a feeling this could've easily been concocted by a Mac engineer (brushed steel.. cmon). iPod Classic is cool, but if I were in the market for a HDD based PMP, I'd want to buy this Zune. But that demographic is far and away insignificant to make a difference.
Looks cool, I like the ZuneHD
Looks cool, I like the ZuneHD
Eh, well I guess competition is always good
What compenition?
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As a side note: after the one-freaking-button on my iPod Touch broke, I would actually consider this. Assuming that it is priced right...
I expect that they will be able to get the app designers whos applications were turned down by The Apple Store
The Zune is a great device, I had one for a while and was running the marketplace on Parallels, however I'd like a native OS X client to make it a permanent player. I sold it about a month after having it, but I loved it.
I really want to see a Zune!!
I don't think its real. In the past 3 years I've lived in Australia and the UK, and holidayed in America, Singapore, New Zealand, Fiji and Israel.
I've never seen one... in any country.
I don't think its real. In the past 3 years I've lived in Australia and the UK, and holidayed in America, Singapore, New Zealand, Fiji and Israel.
I've never seen one... in any country.
I have always wondered what pixel resolution HD radio is. My radios don't have displays. =)
That really isn't funny.
What does AIDS have to do with a Zune?
Please try having more respect for such a serious issue. There could be people reading this who have or know someone sufferings from AIDS.
DOA
Zoon one is on life support ie, like SONY is to Blu Ray-
spending 100s of millions more than they get back in hope the market is unsophisticated enough
to bite- massive subsidation
Wasnt it Bill Gates that said "There's a sucker born every minute"?
MS is clueless-they dont "get it"
their specialty is a poorly built OS-really more applicable to enterprise than home use-they really dont know that you cannot market "cool"
you dont act, you cant "make" it happen -its fate
APPLE being the entity it is is not TRYING to be cool; THey cannot help it if something they sell takes off like wildfire-you cannot REALLY hoist second rate stuff on the younger group, MS has guys at mid life crisis design a "hip" Zune website (a scream -do visit), based on marketing data on how to be "cool"
or worse-a 20-something corporate poodle
who overacts .....with !!SUPER!! !!WOW!! "YO-DUDE! THE ZUNE IS RAD!!!!!!!!!!"
based on marketing data of HOW TO BE COOL-you can smell it in a minute when you visit the site
-by old guys who just 'dont get it'
Zoon one is on life support ie, like SONY is to Blu Ray-
spending 100s of millions more than they get back in hope the market is unsophisticated enough
to bite- massive subsidation
Wasnt it Bill Gates that said "There's a sucker born every minute"?
MS is clueless-they dont "get it"
their specialty is a poorly built OS-really more applicable to enterprise than home use-they really dont know that you cannot market "cool"
you dont act, you cant "make" it happen -its fate
APPLE being the entity it is is not TRYING to be cool; THey cannot help it if something they sell takes off like wildfire-you cannot REALLY hoist second rate stuff on the younger group, MS has guys at mid life crisis design a "hip" Zune website (a scream -do visit), based on marketing data on how to be "cool"
or worse-a 20-something corporate poodle
who overacts .....with !!SUPER!! !!WOW!! "YO-DUDE! THE ZUNE IS RAD!!!!!!!!!!"
based on marketing data of HOW TO BE COOL-you can smell it in a minute when you visit the site
-by old guys who just 'dont get it'
Until they have something that can truly rival the integration you get with iTunes, iPhoto, , Mail, iCal, .Mac, and something that competes with the iTunes Store and App Store (and get developers to actually write useful applications), they aren't going to compete with the iPod/iPhone, no matter how good their hardware is. There's nothing really terribly wrong with the Zune, but without that other stuff it just doesn't work the same.
The Zune plays as many video formats as the iPod (with the inclusion of .wmv and minus .mov), so its pretty much on an equal scale. To be fair both the iPod and Zune lack in their file support compared to other players.
Oh look, another iPod Touch rip-off.
Microsoft is so quaint the way it copies Apple, then talks trash about Apple products.
Microsoft is so quaint the way it copies Apple, then talks trash about Apple products.
