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Zune Team Getting Amnesty for iPod Use
MsManhattan writes "The Zune development team at Microsoft is apparently offering amnesty to employees who give up their iPods in favor of using the Zune MP3 player. An MSNBC employee has posted a photo on Flickr of the company's 'iPod Amnesty Bin,' which sports an image of a bitten green apple and the words 'Bite me.' Whether it's to be taken seriously or is a joke to boost employee morale is anyone's guess, and naturally no one at Microsoft was available for comment. From what can be seen in the photo, only a few early-model iPods have been deposited."
I've got a Zune, and its an awesome mp3/video player, I've used an IPOD, and I don't like it, the zune has alot easier UI and button scheme, plus for the same price a bigger screen than the tiny ipod one. Yes the Zune has its own software, but thats no diffrent than itunes being seperate from quicktime. The only thing that the IPOD has on the Zune is podcasting, but then again the itunes has been around for years and years, so they have had some time to fix it up, as to where the zune software hasn't even really been out a year yet. Anyone that bashes it just because Microsoft makes it needs to wake up, Apple is more evil than MS. If you look at anything that apple sells, you could easily find the same thing made by another company at leat 1/3 less cost. So before anyone bashes the Zune, please actually pick one up and try it out for a while before making a decision.
Obviously you've never used a Zune.
I have a 4G iPod, and a Zune. My iPod sits in the dock in the clock-radio we have at home. The Zune is what travels along with me in my purse and gets most of the use. I don't need to buy accessories to keep it from getting scratched up, the larger screen is all around better (especially when I'm wasting time watching AMV Hell 3 on my Zune), and I think the UI is slightly better in most ways.
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The you are stupid.
Most people only seem stupid, but you are stupid.
Put CD in.
Import.
I don't see the problem. My 6 year old daughter imported some of her CDs(2).
Now, back to my original point, you are stupid.
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Apples said, way back in the begining they DRM can not work. They told that to the execs, DRM for them is more money and a pain ni the neck all around. It does not help sell iPod, which is what iTunes is for, and they are not locking you in. You can put mp3 on using there free tool, or buy one yourself, they don't care. Why don't they care? because if you have in iPod, you have the product they want to sell you.
If they were going after other people making tools, changing their DRM, didn't allow mp3s then you would have a case for lock in.
While DRM can be used for lock in, and some companies are clearly trying to do that, Apple isn't one of them. If Apple starts behaving that way, then I will stop buying music through iTunes.
Apple is putting in incentives for the music industry to drop DRM, what other company is doing that?
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