David Pogue Takes On the Zune

necro81 writes "The NYTimes' widely read technology columnist, David Pogue, has devoted his weekly product review to Microsoft's Zune. He does an even-handed job of describing what Zune has over the iPod, as well as some product-related letdowns." From the article: "Competition is good and all. But what, exactly, is the point of the Zune? It seems like an awful lot of duplication — in a bigger, heavier form with fewer features — just to indulge Microsoft's 'we want some o' that' envy. Wireless sharing is the one big new idea — and if the public seems to respond, Apple could always add that to the iPod."

Comments

Re:A bit of bias in the story

[coyotl]

Being a Mac user doesn't make David Pogue biased, just as having written a book on using Windows wouldn't make him biased. Likewise it doesn't keep him from being an objective reporter for the Paper of Record. Your extrapolation from "Author of book about Macs" to "Mac zealot" is tellling in your leanings, but not those of Mr. Pogue.

You gotta wonder

[steveo777]

How much did MS pay for a site like this?

Every time I walk into EB Games or Gamestop I'm assulted by a pimply-faced teenager pushing the damned Zune on me. I've been insluted to my face because I have an iPod.

One of these kids claimed his boss "was just talking to Peter Moore the other day and he said Peter said that they were making the wi-fi work for downloads." After staring at him and realizing he had convinced himself that this was true, I had to laugh in his face. (I did confirm with his boss later that no, he wasn't talking to Peter Moore by a long shot). At a seperate store a girl mentioned that they had been asked to push/hype the product.