Zune 2 "source" leaks launch date and specs
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted September 19th 2007 9:01AM
posted September 19th 2007 9:01AM
Heads up, Zune fans -- some new product is heading your way sooner rather than later, and we suspect there's more than a couple of things to get jazzed about. According to reports from a "source" inside Microsoft, a new batch of Zunes (AKA Zune 2, Draco, Scorpio, etc.) are due out on October 16th (just in time for the holidays), in both flash memory- and hard drive-based forms. The new, smaller, flash Zune (the Draco) will be hitting shelves in pink, red, black, or army green colors, will have a 4GB or 8GB capacity, and will feature a "squircle" (the source's term, not ours) for navigation, which won't have a center button but can be pushed, "From any side." The hard drive-based player (the Scorpio) will be available in 80GB, sports the soon-to-be infamous "squircle," and touts a screen which the source claims is "awesome" for video. We can safely say that there is at least one man out there who is going to be very, very excited about this.[Thanks, Tyler]
The funny part of all these comments is the true nerd revealing itself. Maybe back up for a minute and think of yourself as a third party. Why does everyone feel the need to group themselves as a Microsoft loyalist, or Apple loyalist. Competition is good. Period.
If Microsoft had not entered this market, Apple, after making a superb product, could begin sticking it to every Ipod consumer out there. Quality would drop off, innovation would plateau, and at some point they would need to figure out some method of squeezing two ipod users out of one.
Now we have competition, prices will fall, new exciting features will be added at an expedited rate, quality will have to maintain.... and overall in the end, who is the winner?
US...Apple or Microsoft fans
We the consumer will benefit.