I don’t own a portable MP3 player. No iPod. No nothin.
I also, overall, don’t like Apple. Their smug ads rub me the wrong way and I don’t believe fashion has any place in computing. That’s all it took. I’ll pass on being part of the Asshole Club who would buy and wear an Apple-branded sledge hammer on their belt if one was made. I’d love to see iPod sales dwindle just on principle alone.
Here’s what I don’t get about the Zune: Who the hell cares about trading songs with the person 10ft away?
That’s the biggest selling point of the Zune.
It’s like someone at Microsoft, in 2005, read the frequent articles about how people were listening to each other’s iPod music by swapping headphones in a social setting, then decided that this was the next big thing. The truth, of course, is that nobody gives a shit about this. Music players are not the next big social setting. Who the hell sits around at social events with a freaking MP3 player and ear buds jammed in their ears?
Zune: MISS.
2 Comments
Not to mention the fact that if you have purchased music already with the Plays For Sure DRM from Microsoft or any of their affiliates it will not work on the Zune. In fact, not only do you have to repurchase any music you already own but you no longer pay with dollars. You have to purchase points where 1 point is not equal to 1 cent.
There are so many things that make it unlikely the Zune in its current form will do well. Oh, it also is not currently supported in Vista.
Jeez, I didn’t know about the PFS issue. Ridiculous.