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d21lewis on 16 May 2012
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rocketpig said:
d21lewis said:
Man, a friend of mine from work pulled out a Zune that he had gotten from a friend when he was serving in Iraq. The thing had a billion songs on it and some episodes of Family Guy. I opened my big mouth and said I knew how to put movies on it. He's been on me ever since to do this. I've brought the Zune home with me a few times, acting like I couldn't figure it out. I brought it home again last Wednesday but I didn't try to figure the thing out until Monday.

Long story short, the Zune is awesome and I want one. This thing plays everything from my HDD--even converts the automatically. I was blind. So blind.

The original Zune was mediocre. Later versions started to kick ass.

The Zune's biggest failing was that Microsoft, as usual with them over the past 10+ years, was late to the party. The market had been decided and the Zune wasn't *better* enough to garner attention. Add in the fact that the Zune Store sucked ass with its strangling DRM, lack of content, and overall mediocrity that there was no reason for the public to really pay attention to the device. By the time MS got things sorted on the device, the iPhone market was closing the door on the standalone portable music market and completely shifting the customer paradigm with the launch of the App Store.

Which is why MS took the one outstanding feature of the Zune, its user interface, and put it on Windows Phone. But, again, Microsoft is running into a wall because they were two years late to the smartphone party with WP7.

I really wish they would get their shit together.

How much did they cost initially?  I just checked Amazon and I can't find one for less than $450!  I hoped it would be cheap since it's basically a dead product.  No such luck.