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disolitude on 24 January 2009
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Impulsivity said:
disolitude said:
I got a Zune mid last year when they came out in Canada. I love it. I hope they keep making them so I never get to see Itunes again.

@Impulsivity
I see lots of people with Zunes here. Its seen kind of like the alternative for people that don't feel like following the herd. Kinda like Macs are to PCs... except its pretty obvious that Zune is cheaper and better in every way than the same spec Ipod.

 

   A) you clearly have not seen/tried an ipod touch.  It is the same as the iphone minus the calls (still has wifi, internet, email, chatting, song downloads, great navigation, apps ect ect ect).  It blows the Zune's very limited feature set away.

    Sure if you want to say the Zune is better then the 5 year old ipod classic go right ahead, but that is missing the point.

 

   B) how in the world is buying a microsoft product an alternative for people who don't like following the herd?  MS is without a doubt THE herd company.  That's like saying I'm an outsider when it comes to fast food so I eat at McDonalds.  The Zune existing at all is PRECISELY microsoft following the ipod herd by making a me too player that is more or less identical (at least identical to the old ipods).  They even made the mini Zune to rip off the ipod nano, Zune touch and Zunephone are probably right around the corner...bastion of innovation MS is.

    And what's wrong with itunes?  It's by far the easiest and best music service/program out now.  What do you prefer?  Windows media player?  please.

 

 

 I have Ipod touch too. Its great... but mine has 8 gigs of storage and I have an 80 gig music collection so you can imagine I dont' use it for music playing much.

Just because Ms is the herd company in software doesn't make them the "Bandwagon" company in every aspect of their business.

Many people argue that people buy Windows OS, use IE because they dont know there is an alternative... Same goes Apple for MP3 players. People buy apple products there because they don't know anything else is out there...and even if they do know othr products exist, the brand and commercial message for Ipods is jsut too much for people to bother trying something else.

And lastly Itunes on a PC is the biggest POS I've ever used. You can never tell whats being syned and the damn thing takes over your machine. No one uses Windows media player for Zune as Zune has its own software. That software works like windows explorer...3 tabs (device, comptuer, store) and you just drag and drop what you want to sync. Easy to figure out and it doesn't try to be the media center that Itunes is going for.