"About as Pleasant as Having an Airbag Deploy in Your Face"
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Andy Ihnatko hate - HATES - the new Microsoft Zune, and he makes some excellent and amusing points:
- Am I really about to manually create and install a .dll file?
- Zune is incompatible with Windows Media Player.
- And why (for the love of God) doesn't it support podcasts?
- The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure.
- Result: The Zune will be dead and gone within six months. Good riddance.
1 comment:
I think the most important point is:
Microsoft's industry-snuggling makes it important NOT to buy one.
Microsoft pays the record companies a commission for every Zune sold for Christ's sake - that's right, Universal (big idiots) get a commission on every Zune sold - outrageous.
I somehow doubt the Zune will be gone is 6 months. Microsoft doesn't give up that easy and has billions of dollars to flush away on this one. I'm guessing this is just an interim device to get their feet wet. I'm sure they have a Microsoft-built one coming up. Remember, the Zune is just a retooled Toshiba Gigabeat.
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