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Microsoft Zune MP3 Player Interface Revealed
bain writes to tell us that iLounge has put up details on the Zune, Microsoft's MP3 player. According to the article, "Zune is a bit bigger than a standard 30GB iPod, and apparently made entirely of plastic." Interestingly, Microsoft forgoes a touch-sensitive scrollwheel in favor of wheel-shaped buttons. Included are WiFi capabilities, an FM tuner, and (in stark contrast to the iPod) a white-on-black color scheme. The 30GB model is expected to sell for $300.
This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.
* Wireless
* More space than a Nomad
Raging success I'd say!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
First, they rip off OS X and create Vista, now they rip off the iPod and create "zune".
Steve: Well, Bill, what successful thing is there left in the market that we *HAVENT* ripped off?
Bill: Umm... There's the PSP, and the DS...
Steve: The team is way ahead of you bill, they've already got a Xbox360M in the works!
(Just my speculation, of course)
Just announced, Zune will only be available for corporate customers in November. Consumers can get it early in 2007.
There's no buzz about Zune. Microsoft will need a significant and unique advertising campaign to make this thing sell.
So .. Rolling Stones again?
you make a grown man cryyyy...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
There's nothing hip or cool aboug having some music device from a giant corporation.
Some day we'll teach the Apple folks this lesson.
for the Zune; It has a color screen that only displays a single color, their patented shade of 'Blue Screen of Death' blue.
You may all go to Hell and I will go to Texas - Davy Crockett
...does it run Windows?
"When I wake up in the morning I piss cryptographic excellence." - Bruce Schneier
No FLAC? No, thanks.
I believe he may be snorting lines of PHP. I dunno, but it kinda looks like it. Look at how big this "first post" was, sumthin's up with that.
Just ain't normal for a FP
Bless Linus
If Microsoft really wants to be like Apple, now they need to file a suit against iLounge for leaking the pictures.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
But does it run Linux?
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It's probably the same guy who told me that he wouldn't want a hydrogen powered car because hydrogen's explosive.
Yes, the wifi features for MP3 players, small little devices with a bloated, wasteful wireless protocol, making USB/Firewire completely unnecessary. Just what I want, a device to wireless sync to my computer before I leave the house so that I'll have my newest music and when I finally get where I want to be and turn it on, I realize(BATTERY DEPLETED. SHUTTING DOWN.)
Dime to a dollar that 48 hours after the Zune in released that someone will have figured out how to use a Zune as a Yet Another Vector for infecting wi-fi enabled Windows machines with malware.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Wow; an mp3-player that runs Dos!
How to enable garbage collection on a system without protected memory: #define malloc() ((void *) rand())
Microsoft are about to make their big entrance to the digital music party.... ....again.
......... guys, I said "TA DAH!" .....over here with the scroll wheel thing that isn't.....
Ta dah!
An MS Toaster Oven is the last thing the world needs. God knows how convoluted the process would be to toast a simple piece of bread.
1. Welcome to the Microsoft (TM) Toasting Wizard. What are you toasting today?
2. What type of bread?
3. Microsoft (TM) Toasting Wizard is searching for "Dempster's white bread"...
(little animated magnifying glass on globe icon)
4. Toasting Wizard could not find your bread. Please make sure you've typed the type of bread correctly and try again.
5. Wizard Completed!
Toasting Wizard was quit by user before toasting was complete.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
Holy crap, you're right. But---get this----what if we mounted it upright on (i.e., normal to) the music player's surface? Then you could reach out, maybe with your thumb and forefinger, and ... I don't know, rotate the thing? Twist it? "Turn" it?
I could totally imagine this on the front of music players everywhere for volume control and maybe to select between different wireless "channels" (TODO: figure out how to modulate multiple streams of music in a band of EM radiation).
Actually, this could be even bigger! We could use these kinds of controls in any situation where fine-tuning and coarse-grained adjustment are necessary (say, on microscopes), or really on any kind of mechanism where the act of turning the control can be made to do useful mechanical work (TODO: maybe this can be used on water faucets? doors? something like that).
I'm stuck on a name for this physical, continuously-variable, cylindrical widget. Any ideas?