As much as I love microsoft, their treatment of the zune and the xbox360 are perfect reasons I can see why an Apple fanboy would hate them.
Xbox360...no built in wifi...no web browser. Even if I were to ignore the lack of a web browser, for Microsoft to not build in a wifi and sell a damn $100 wifi adapter is insanity. What's worse is that that part NEVER got cheaper and its still up there in price. Even when they redesigned the Xbo360 they never built it in. Meanwhile lowly wii and Ps3 came with it built in. PS3 was expensive, but Wii isn't...how much are they actually charging you for a built in wifi?
ZUNE....pathetic.
Microsoft releases it with a crappy wifi share stupidness - Sansa releases their DAP with built in Wifi and the ability to connect to the internet radio. So what does Microsoft do? They redesign it, make it smaller, but never give it a wifi that can do anything worthwhile. That zune song share bullsh*t was here and gone in a split second. Then Apple comes out and puts Safari on their iPhone and their ipod leaving Microsoft in the dust.
flashpoint: i like how you threw in "as much as i love microsoft," to push your anti-microsoft agenda. everyone knows you only post on engadget to stroke steve jobs.
@ Flashpoint: I own an Xbox 360 and a Zune 80, and I can't agree more with you. I mean it pisses me off every single time I think about the lack of the expensively-sold-alone wifi for the Xbox 360 and the crippled useless wifi in the Zune! I seriously haven't used the Zune's wifi ever, except for once to try how fast sending a file was to my brother's Zune, other than that it is very very very pointless addition. I use wired network for my Xbox 360 machine, which ease up my pain when I think "What kind of harm would it get to Microsoft if they build in the wifi and have a web browser in their next software update??".
I swear sometimes I feel like going to Microsoft's R&D department and kicking the crap out of every single stupid copy-cat brain they have in there; If they only check out the ideas posted in thousands of online pages, they would be creating some of the most advanced gadgetry in the world, all for the same or less price of competing devices! God dammit.
Why do you, Microsoft, need to be so stupid?! In the Arab world we have a saying that urges "If you do a job, perfect it"; Microsoft is definitely doing lots of jobs, but they always ruin some of the most obvious and easy parts in their productions; it's like there is a specialized team to make sure everything that comes out of Microsoft has some crippled feature for the sake of it!
I'm jealous. I ran out of room on my iPhone White 16GB last week (and did, in fact, end up deleting Avatar in to save the Carrie Underwood). But a 160GB...
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will battery life also be improved? The 160GB iPod touch has 10 hours more battery life for music than the 80GB.
Where are you getting a 160GB iPod touch? I wants.
Arent all iPod touches flash based? Can't compare battery life on flash based devices to ones with hard drives.
As much as I love microsoft, their treatment of the zune and the xbox360 are perfect reasons I can see why an Apple fanboy would hate them.
Xbox360...no built in wifi...no web browser. Even if I were to ignore the lack of a web browser, for Microsoft to not build in a wifi and sell a damn $100 wifi adapter is insanity. What's worse is that that part NEVER got cheaper and its still up there in price. Even when they redesigned the Xbo360 they never built it in. Meanwhile lowly wii and Ps3 came with it built in. PS3 was expensive, but Wii isn't...how much are they actually charging you for a built in wifi?
ZUNE....pathetic.
Microsoft releases it with a crappy wifi share stupidness - Sansa releases their DAP with built in Wifi and the ability to connect to the internet radio. So what does Microsoft do? They redesign it, make it smaller, but never give it a wifi that can do anything worthwhile. That zune song share bullsh*t was here and gone in a split second. Then Apple comes out and puts Safari on their iPhone and their ipod leaving Microsoft in the dust.
Microsoft has no idea how to make a good product.
@Flashpoint
Does any reasonably intelligent person at Engadget NOT think you're a total jackass?
"As much as I love microsoft..."
"Microsoft has no idea how to make a good product."
Don't try to avoid grills by playing both sides of the field. You can't love a company that you believe makes nothing good.
flashpoint: i like how you threw in "as much as i love microsoft," to push your anti-microsoft agenda. everyone knows you only post on engadget to stroke steve jobs.
@ sinai:
Sounds like *somebody* hasn't been reading Flashpoint's posts. He does a lot more Ballmer stroking than Jobs stroking.
You're getting your fanboys mixed up.
@ Flashpoint: I own an Xbox 360 and a Zune 80, and I can't agree more with you. I mean it pisses me off every single time I think about the lack of the expensively-sold-alone wifi for the Xbox 360 and the crippled useless wifi in the Zune! I seriously haven't used the Zune's wifi ever, except for once to try how fast sending a file was to my brother's Zune, other than that it is very very very pointless addition. I use wired network for my Xbox 360 machine, which ease up my pain when I think "What kind of harm would it get to Microsoft if they build in the wifi and have a web browser in their next software update??".
I swear sometimes I feel like going to Microsoft's R&D department and kicking the crap out of every single stupid copy-cat brain they have in there; If they only check out the ideas posted in thousands of online pages, they would be creating some of the most advanced gadgetry in the world, all for the same or less price of competing devices! God dammit.
Why do you, Microsoft, need to be so stupid?! In the Arab world we have a saying that urges "If you do a job, perfect it"; Microsoft is definitely doing lots of jobs, but they always ruin some of the most obvious and easy parts in their productions; it's like there is a specialized team to make sure everything that comes out of Microsoft has some crippled feature for the sake of it!
I'm jealous. I ran out of room on my iPhone White 16GB last week (and did, in fact, end up deleting Avatar in to save the Carrie Underwood). But a 160GB...
As much as I love you Flashpoint...
CLASSIC! Sorry, guys.
As much as I love Apple.
$10 just so i can write notes on my iTouch!!!
Also, I would like to address the xbox 360 web browser "issue."
I have a ps3, i've used the ps3 browser once to find it doesn't support a certain free suggestive website. I haven't used it every after that.