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Next Generation Zune Coming for Holiday Season
thefickler writes "Microsoft has confirmed the existence and coming launch of the long rumored Zune 2.0 or 2nd generation Zune, and it appears that Microsoft will expand the Zune family with new styles, sizes, and price points. 'Future Zune products will feature podcasting support and expanded video support. The Zune will also move into other geographic markets when Microsoft feels it has an appealing product to offer those demographics. Perhaps most importantly of all, the representative mentioned that Microsoft will build on the wireless support. Maybe we'll finally have the freedom of synching our digital audio players via wi-fi. The rep didn't mention anything specific about Microsoft's rumored answer to the iPod Shuffle. But interesting rumors from sources considered "reliable" point to a very innovative product.'"
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They should use The Who's "We Won't Get Fooled Again" for their ad campaign in a form of irony.
I mean, is anyone really going to buy Zune 2.0? After all, it didn't work with the DRM scheme standard Microsoft was pushing, is inferior in every way compared to Apple's iPod, and was a flop in the marketplace, especially when compared to its competitors such as the iPod.
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You must be new here. WMF is, if anything, the anti-mac fanboy.
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As long as the Zune's marketed by Microsoft and the iPod's marketed by Apple, the Zune is doomed because, let's face it, Apple's good at marketing, and Microsoft's good at forcing stuff down consumer's throats.
*no, slashdot is not this market. I know.
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Think of a car application, where you have the Zune basically hardwired into your car audio. As such, it'd have power already, but you'd still have to remove it from the car in order to add new music. Being able to wirelessly sync would allow you to run the Zune app on a PC in your house and sync songs out to your car without having to take the Zune out of your car at all.
At least that's what Roughly Drafted told me.
Sometimes, spending is just throwing good money after bad. They can't make Zune a winner because rented and dissapearing music just aren't cool. Even less cool is the idea that billboards will be able to "squirt" adverts onto your player or what your player might tell them in return. Minority Report was supposed to be a horror story, not a business model.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
So I don't really need to charge it all that often. But it would be nice if I could sync it without having to plug it in.
I hadn't thought about this before, but considering how some people are boycotting any CD put out by RIAA members (with help from RIAA Radar), they should be boycotting the Zune as well, seeing as how Microsoft kicks back a small amount to Universal Music for every Zune sold.
Microsoft sold out all consumers in a failed bid to give RIAA members teeth to demand an unjustified cut for every iPod sold, just when Apple was renegotiating licensing with the music labels. Now, you may argue that Apple's on "our side" only because it's best for their bottom line... but at least they're not actively against us in this battle! The least we can do is return the favour.
I just RTFA, and it sais NOTHING, and that is truly NOTHING, about what is really in the pipeline. Only lines like "it's going to be better", and "we're expanding it blah blah" with a lot of marketingspeak - but really nothing on the actual product. The only concrete product mentioned, the "Zune Shuffle" or whatever, also falls short of an actual description, let alone giving me the idea that it is reliable.
Sorry folks, nothing to see here, move along. Really, there is absolutely nothing.
The only thing about this article is that it keeps the buzz going, it keeps the people talking about this device. And guessing. Just guessing. Because there is nothing really said there, everything is just a guess.
Editors, please do your job, and don't put this kind of nonsense on the front page. It doesn't belong there. I'm really interested in tech news, and also what Microsoft is doing - even though I don't buy their products, they are one of the major forces in the computer world - but this is the least informative article ever.
Ah well, let the Microsoft bashing continue.
If your Nano did wireless synching, you'd be charging it more often than every two weeks...
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They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
On paper the Zune looked okay. The problem for most people is that Microsoft was a little deceptive in advertising in what Microsoft failed to disclose. It had a bigger screen, but the resolution was the same as the iPod and the player was larger. It had wifi but it wasn't really wifi. You can buy music online only it's not compatible with anything you may have bought before, etc.
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after a year still noone is running linux on it
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"Future Zune products will feature podcasting support"
Are they saying that it will take a new hardware model to support podcasting?? Apple did it with just software.
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