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Zune Team Getting Amnesty for iPod Use

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ooooh-free-ipods dept.

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."

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  1. In other news by Sciros · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:In other news by apt142 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just because someone says the word interesting, doesn't make them interesting.
      Interesting...
      Funny how that works out.
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    2. Re:In other news by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Funny

      In that case, instead of "interesting" people should mod funny stuff as "underrated."

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  2. act quickly by jcgf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Tips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't the Zune an "off-brand music player"???

  4. Re:Uptake ? by jeffasselin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steve (that's Balmer, in case of confusion) I just call him Uncle Fester. No confusion with that name.
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  5. Re:new ad campaign ineffective, misses point by rhartness · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have 'Ahhh...' when you say it. From the back of the throat.

  6. Re:new ad campaign ineffective, misses point by rbanffy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow, I don't think the sets "people who think twice" and "people who buy Zune" share any meaningful intersection.

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  7. Re:new ad campaign ineffective, misses point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  8. Re:new ad campaign ineffective, misses point by LKM · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  9. On the other side of the same hallway... by Tarkwyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... was this interesting bin: http://flickr.com/photos/tarkwyn/513911705/

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