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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."
General Motors is granting amnesty to all employees who trade in their Acura TL for a Chevy Malibu.
Also, Nokia is granting amnesty to all employees who trade in their Nintendo DS for an N-Gage.
Interestingly, there has been an increase in the number of Acura TLs driven by GM lower management...
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Isn't this a bit like trading in your mercedes for a cavalier and the ability to hear your friends tales of where he has been with his cavalier? Doesn't sound like a very good deal to me.
Isn't the Zune an "off-brand music player"???
Not only do these criminals get amnesty, but they get a Zune Visa, or Z-Visa as some call it.
If they want a real solution to the iPod problem, a wall must be built around the MS campus with strict enforcement at the border. Confiscation of all iPods should be mandatory and watch lists should be established to stop all potential malo-fascists from entering.
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You have 'Ahhh...' when you say it. From the back of the throat.
Also, even if you do have a clue how to apply one of the over-done Slashdot meme jokes, refrain anyway.
So you're the one who bought the Zune!
if you look really close you can see that someone parted with an iPod protector - not even willing to part with the real thing....
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OK. So you've got more money than sense and you chose Windows? I thought people usually choose Apple in that situation.
Yes, because all that "Plays For Sure" music will work just fine on an iPod. Err, wait....
Somehow, I don't think the sets "people who think twice" and "people who buy Zune" share any meaningful intersection.
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Dear Mac users,
We have no problem with you wanting to get rid of us oh-so-horrible PC users, if it means that you guys stop trying to push Macs on us. Seems like not a single Apple story goes by without one of you guys smugly declaring how superior your Mac experience is. All it takes is for you guys to actually shut up, but I guess that concept is too difficult for you.
PS: You might want to get Jobs to cancel all those smug advertisements aimed at converting PC users too.
Love,
PC Users
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Dear PC users,
We will not use parent's moronic post as a reason to insult all of you. We realize that a certain percentage of all people are morons. We realize that this applies to Windows users as well as to Mac users and Linux users. Even though not one single Apple story goes by without a PC user smugly declaring how idiotic Mac users and iPod owners are, we will not hold this against you since we assume that only a minority of all PC users consists of condescending Apple haters who presumably had a really hard childhood and now feel forced to take their anger out on Mac users.
PS: We would not mind if you lynched these idiots yourself, though.
Love,
Mac Users
... was this interesting bin: http://flickr.com/photos/tarkwyn/513911705/
Tarkwyn.
I don't understand why so many people are bashing the Zune. I love mine! It is the perfect size to shim up an old table I have in the den with a short leg.
How ya like dat?