15 month ago
plasticbag : Vaguely entertaining video parody of a supposed Microsoft Zune version of the iPhone - Honestly, at the moment I think pretty much everyone is still reeling from the launch of the iPhone, so it feels a bit mean to pick on Microsoft in particular. Still, it's sort of funny.
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16 month ago
fastclemmy : YouTube - Zune Balmer - YouTube - Zune Balmer by fastclemmy Clever! video zune parody humor apple ipod hotlinks microsoft Copy | React (0)
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19 month ago
wearehugh : Two Zunes Find Each Other in the Wild
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22 month ago
wearehugh : Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Zune Phone To Also Suck. - "This comment was followed by a long pause as reporters waited for some sort of support for this contention."
43folders : Crazy Apple Rumors: Zune Phone To Also Suck - "Also, the Zellular Phone Call will only allow you to call someone three times." [via:Daring Fireball]
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22 month ago
wearehugh : Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists - Engadget - from the comments: "The idea that this is somehow a problem is predicated on the belief that more than one person in any 50-mile radius area actually owns a Zune"
43folders : Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists - Engadget - "It's official: record companies don't like you." [via:daringfireball.net]
jimray : Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists - Yeah, you can fault the record companies for this, but why the fuck did Microsoft even make this an option at encode time?
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23 month ago
plasticbag : There's probably some history to the use of the line, "Macs are for queers" in this Penny Arcade cartoon that I'd love it if someone could explain to me... - In the meantime, without the benefit of history (like many other readers of that strip), I'm going to pretend it says, "Macs are for niggers", come to my own conclusions and move right along...
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24 month ago
43folders : Playlist: Zune Diary: Final thoughts - "Welcome to the disgraceful." I get the feeling Chris wasn't so into his Zune.
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deusx : Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft Zune Review - "The bottom line is that Microsoft should have waited until it had a more compelling product to sell. I can't imagine what they were thinking."
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deusx : Listening Post - Creative Commons' License Revision Would Render Zune Noncompliant - "When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the right granted to them
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24 month ago
43folders : CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko :: Avoid the loony Zune - "And why (for the love of God) doesn't it support podcasts? That's pure insanity."
deusx : CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko :: Avoid the loony Zune - '"What are the things that users want and Apple refuses to provide?" Microsoft's colossal blunder was to knock the user out of that question and put the music industry in its place.'
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Ethan Kaplan—Senior Director of Technology at Warner Bros Records—is decidedly unimpressed by the Zune - Discovered via the Digial Music Weblog, one of my new favourite places for keeping up with media shifts...
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : CNN.com Video: Microsoft's Zune released - Ouch. I'm not sure Microsoft will be happy that their launch-day feature on CNN features incredulent hosts ("Who do they think is going to buy this?"), one of whom ends the segment raving about her new teeny iPod Shuffle. [via] #
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Installing the Zune... sucked - Engadget - Wow. Microsoft make it clear that, however rushed, buggy and miserably unready the Zune software may be, the user experience design was always half-assed. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Installing the Zune... sucked - Installing the Zune... sucked: Microsoft is amazing, huh?
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43folders : Microsoft's Zune to Give iPod Its Most Serious Challenge Yet | theledger.com - "The wireless music-sharing feature on the Zune is heavily compromised in a way that is bound to annoy the very audience it is targeting."
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25 month ago
43folders : Apple Matters | Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme - "In effect, Microsoft has created a store that only accepts gift cards as the valid method of payments. "
Rod Begbie : Apple Matters | Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme - Microsoft's "you must buy points in $5 increments" makes sense if you consider credit-card transaction costs (I'm sure Apple loses money if you only buy one 99 cent song at a time -- that's why they batch up your transactions), but the user experience of [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme - Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme: "So, this horrible system has been put in place (according to Microsoft’s logic) to make life easier for less than 1 million people."
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : zune.com - Are you kidding me?! Microsoft didn't register zune.com before announcing their MP3 player?! Wonder how that will work out for them. #
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27 month ago
plasticbag : BBC News talks about the Microsoft Zune - Come on, doesn't the name say everything you need to know about this product? It's supposed to sound future and cool and hip, but it's more like your gran saying 'zany' to seem down with the kids. I can't see it getting very far.
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Zune Social Music - Tom Coates pointed out this obvious at Future of Web Apps: Apple has iPod and a Store, but there is this social stuff in between. But DRM is anti-social.
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Zune is Here - "You can actually send a file to another Zune user, but it will only be playable three times or stored for three days, whichever comes first." Well, that's worth the battery drain of 802.11 networking. #
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Exclusive Microsoft Zune Picture - Zune In The Wild! - Gizmodo - "the shot is in black and white because Microsoft assigned a unique color scheme to every Zune prototype so any leaks could be traced to the employee who leaked it."
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Rod Begbie : Daring Fireball: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft's 'Zune' - John Gruber's Magic 8 Ball does its work on Zune. #
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Zune - On NPR's Marketwatch the radio announcer ended his short bit on this news, with a mutter, "whatever"
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28 month ago
Rod Begbie : Coming Zune - Microsoft finally confess to the existence of their "Zune" player. Nothing much announced yet; just a teaser site with a man stroking a bunny. [via] #
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