Zune announced today

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by laurentius


I thought Creative and Rio were flash players witha whopping 32 MB space for your 10 or so favourite tunes.

Its more like Apple ripped off Phillips with is 9 GB(?) HD mp3 players..

In any case the Zune looks like another bad copy of iPod, didnt Zen tried this and failed already?

I'm happy with my Nokia N71 + 2 GB SDmini card for my wma/aac++ tunes.

Buy a decent phone instead.

What the hell are you talking about? The Rio player I bought maybe four years ago had 1.5 Gb at about $150. A damn good buy at the time.

[thesilentone]

laurentius and VJ have proven themselves to be horrible horrible apple fanboys, without even being customers of apple themselves (so they say) weird!

[Drake Tungsten]

There will be enough people who refuse to buy the dominant iPod that the Zune will be able to find a niche market. Think of it as the Linux of MP3 players...

[Kuciwalker]

Ouch. I am bested.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by thesilentone
VJ have proven themselves to be horrible horrible apple fanboys

no

I just dislike Asherbot-spam of overpriced, obsolete ripoff products of Microsoft

[Nostromo]

I suspect Microsoft cheated with those pictures. I bet those aren't actual screenshots. They look too good to be true.

[Kuciwalker]

Possibly, though it looks far more real than the crap they try to pull on cell phone commercials.

[Asher]

Originally posted by VJ

no

I just dislike Asherbot-spam of overpriced, obsolete ripoff products of Microsoft

Obsolete?

[Asher]

[Asher]

The software interface appears to be a lot more userfriendly than the iPod (eg, album art in album listing).

[Whaleboy]

That puppy's going to break

[Kuciwalker]

Hm. MS touched up the screen in the photos a little bit, but not very much, apparently.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
That puppy's going to break

[Kuciwalker]

They need to make a Halo-themed one

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by Asher

The photo's don't fill me with confidence about its ability to survive a typical day in my hands... i.e., getting chucked into bags, having stuff thrown on it, stuck in a pocket with keys and various crap, all that kind of abuse that my iPod Nano has survived, and it's working perfectly (albeit mucky as hell).

The more I read about it, the more I think that the only people who are going to buy this thing in any serious numbers are those who will avoid Apple as a matter of principle rather than making a rational purchase... Asher, for instance .