Doom & Gloom surrounds Zune has it tries to compete against a much smarter Apple. Here is a great list of Opps! mistakes that will KILL the Zune on Tuesday. It's now easy to see, MS will drop the Zune within 24 months!
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Not all purchased Zune songs can be sent wirelessly! Get ready for people to YELL about the error: "Can't receive songs because of rights restrictions." Microsoft completely fails to tell the purchaser which ones don't work! Microsoft says that they have no plans to give you that information. False Advertising!!!
It doesnt have a single standard iPod amenity: no games, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, password-protected volume limiter, equalizer, calendar, address book or notes module.
Incredibly, you cant even use the Zune as an external hard drive! as you can with just about every other player on earth.
Zune is 60% larger and 17% heavier than the comparable iPod!
It has much worse battery life for music than the iPod or than Microsoft claims -- at least two hours less than the iPod.
With wireless turned on, battery life on the Zune is just 10 hours and 12 minutes, even if you don't send or receive any songs. Even worse if you do.
Larger screen, lower quality... many album covers, photos look worse than they do on the iPod. It has the same resolution, but stretches everything.
You can't share music libraries between computers like you can with iTunes.
The wheel, isn't a wheel, but merely up/down - left/right buttons!
Zune's online store offers far fewer songs, just over two million, compared with 3.5 million for the iTunes store.
Zune Marketplace offers no TV shows, movies or music videos that iTunes does, and has no audiobooks or podcast ability.
Even worse, to buy even a single 99-cent song from the Zune store, you have to purchase blocks of "points" from Microsoft, in increments of at least $5!
You can't just click and have the 99 cents deducted from a credit card. And the point system is deceptive. Songs are priced at 79 points, which some people might think means 79 cents. But 79 points actually cost 99 cents. (In true MS theft style!)
And lastly, it costs 99 cents MORE than the iPod, which means you lose 1 song even before you pay $5 to listen to your very first song :)
Great work Microsoft! thanks for cementing iPod's 77% share!
Doom & Gloom surrounds Zune has it tries to compete against a much smarter Apple. Here is a great list of Opps! mistakes that will KILL the Zune on Tuesday. It's now easy to see, MS will drop the Zune within 24 months!
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Not all purchased Zune songs can be sent wirelessly! Get ready for people to YELL about the error: "Can't receive songs because of rights restrictions." Microsoft completely fails to tell the purchaser which ones don't work! Microsoft says that they have no plans to give you that information. False Advertising!!!
It doesnt have a single standard iPod amenity: no games, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, password-protected volume limiter, equalizer, calendar, address book or notes module.
Incredibly, you cant even use the Zune as an external hard drive! as you can with just about every other player on earth.
Zune is 60% larger and 17% heavier than the comparable iPod!
It has much worse battery life for music than the iPod or than Microsoft claims -- at least two hours less than the iPod.
With wireless turned on, battery life on the Zune is just 10 hours and 12 minutes, even if you don't send or receive any songs. Even worse if you do.
Larger screen, lower quality... many album covers, photos look worse than they do on the iPod. It has the same resolution, but stretches everything.
You can't share music libraries between computers like you can with iTunes.
The wheel, isn't a wheel, but merely up/down - left/right buttons!
Zune's online store offers far fewer songs, just over two million, compared with 3.5 million for the iTunes store.
Zune Marketplace offers no TV shows, movies or music videos that iTunes does, and has no audiobooks or podcast ability.
Even worse, to buy even a single 99-cent song from the Zune store, you have to purchase blocks of "points" from Microsoft, in increments of at least $5!
You can't just click and have the 99 cents deducted from a credit card. And the point system is deceptive. Songs are priced at 79 points, which some people might think means 79 cents. But 79 points actually cost 99 cents. (In true MS theft style!)
And lastly, it costs 99 cents MORE than the iPod, which means you lose 1 song even before you pay $5 to listen to your very first song :)
Great work Microsoft! thanks for cementing iPod's 77% share!
I have been trying to think of what the Zune reminds me of. Finally, it dawned on me. When the Zune is turned off, it looks just like a remote control for a garge door opener.
I have been trying to think of what the Zune reminds me of. Finally, it dawned on me. When the Zune is turned off, it looks just like a remote control for a garage door opener.
Hilarious! You criticise someone's English and then write nonsense. How would a spell checker 'breach the gap'? I believe the phrase you're looking for is 'bridge the gap'. At least if you want to make a little sense, it is.
First, if you want to make any sense at all, you might try to reply to the post in question, instead of to the article. Second, a spell check would not catch that, but so what? What exactly is your point? Since it was I who wrote that, the original poster using a spell checker would not have provided any benefit. I know you think you are turning a clever phrase, but you are just coming of as an ignoramus. As for the rest, "breach the gap" is common enough phrase in its own right, and its use in no way made what was written nonsensical. Your failure to understand is more an indication of your own mental faculties than of any deficiency of mine.
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Not all purchased Zune songs can be sent wirelessly! Get ready for people to YELL about the error: "Can't receive songs because of rights restrictions." Microsoft completely fails to tell the purchaser which ones don't work! Microsoft says that they have no plans to give you that information. False Advertising!!!
It doesnt have a single standard iPod amenity: no games, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, password-protected volume limiter, equalizer, calendar, address book or notes module.
Incredibly, you cant even use the Zune as an external hard drive! as you can with just about every other player on earth.
Zune is 60% larger and 17% heavier than the comparable iPod!
It has much worse battery life for music than the iPod or than Microsoft claims -- at least two hours less than the iPod.
With wireless turned on, battery life on the Zune is just 10 hours and 12 minutes, even if you don't send or receive any songs. Even worse if you do.
Larger screen, lower quality... many album covers, photos look worse than they do on the iPod. It has the same resolution, but stretches everything.
You can't share music libraries between computers like you can with iTunes.
The wheel, isn't a wheel, but merely up/down - left/right buttons!
Zune's online store offers far fewer songs, just over two million, compared with 3.5 million for the iTunes store.
Zune Marketplace offers no TV shows, movies or music videos that iTunes does, and has no audiobooks or podcast ability.
Even worse, to buy even a single 99-cent song from the Zune store, you have to purchase blocks of "points" from Microsoft, in increments of at least $5!
You can't just click and have the 99 cents deducted from a credit card. And the point system is deceptive. Songs are priced at 79 points, which some people might think means 79 cents. But 79 points actually cost 99 cents. (In true MS theft style!)
And lastly, it costs 99 cents MORE than the iPod, which means you lose 1 song even before you pay $5 to listen to your very first song :)
Great work Microsoft! thanks for cementing iPod's 77% share!
pass it on!
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Not all purchased Zune songs can be sent wirelessly! Get ready for people to YELL about the error: "Can't receive songs because of rights restrictions." Microsoft completely fails to tell the purchaser which ones don't work! Microsoft says that they have no plans to give you that information. False Advertising!!!
It doesnt have a single standard iPod amenity: no games, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, password-protected volume limiter, equalizer, calendar, address book or notes module.
Incredibly, you cant even use the Zune as an external hard drive! as you can with just about every other player on earth.
Zune is 60% larger and 17% heavier than the comparable iPod!
It has much worse battery life for music than the iPod or than Microsoft claims -- at least two hours less than the iPod.
With wireless turned on, battery life on the Zune is just 10 hours and 12 minutes, even if you don't send or receive any songs. Even worse if you do.
Larger screen, lower quality... many album covers, photos look worse than they do on the iPod. It has the same resolution, but stretches everything.
You can't share music libraries between computers like you can with iTunes.
The wheel, isn't a wheel, but merely up/down - left/right buttons!
Zune's online store offers far fewer songs, just over two million, compared with 3.5 million for the iTunes store.
Zune Marketplace offers no TV shows, movies or music videos that iTunes does, and has no audiobooks or podcast ability.
Even worse, to buy even a single 99-cent song from the Zune store, you have to purchase blocks of "points" from Microsoft, in increments of at least $5!
You can't just click and have the 99 cents deducted from a credit card. And the point system is deceptive. Songs are priced at 79 points, which some people might think means 79 cents. But 79 points actually cost 99 cents. (In true MS theft style!)
And lastly, it costs 99 cents MORE than the iPod, which means you lose 1 song even before you pay $5 to listen to your very first song :)
Great work Microsoft! thanks for cementing iPod's 77% share!
pass it on!
It's going to be an exciting race!
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Apple is in Cupertino. Thanks for sharing.
Finally, it dawned on me. When the Zune is turned off, it looks just
like a remote control for a garge door opener.
Finally, it dawned on me. When the Zune is turned off, it looks just
like a remote control for a garage door opener.
My fiance said "ewwww" when I showed her a picture.
No joke. That was her unbiased, unprompted reaction: disgust.
Check out the rubberized case that looks like a tire tread on
zune.net
Yeah, geeks without taste (ie, many of us) will be the only people
buying this for the time being.
How would a spell checker 'breach the gap'? I believe the phrase
you're looking for is 'bridge the gap'. At least if you want to make a
little sense, it is.
to the post in question, instead of to the article. Second, a spell
check would not catch that, but so what? What exactly is your
point? Since it was I who wrote that, the original poster using a
spell checker would not have provided any benefit. I know you
think you are turning a clever phrase, but you are just coming of
as an ignoramus. As for the rest, "breach the gap" is common
enough phrase in its own right, and its use in no way made what
was written nonsensical. Your failure to understand is more an
indication of your own mental faculties than of any deficiency of
mine.
Oh, and punctuation goes inside quotations.