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I can't wait for September 16th. ]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
One of Microsoft's biggest problems is that they don't design enough of their own hardware devices and tie it to their own software. Apple does this...that's their strength - the reason their software and hardware perform so perfectly together. If Microsoft built their own device from the ground up, it would be just as good as anything coming out of Apple.

XBOX360 is a perfect example. ]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
If MS can produce something so versatile such as the WM for so many phones and mostly works (if you don't install everything that's available out there), I'm sure a phone made by MS that is INTENDED to work a particular in collaboration with its software will be awesome.

Can't wait.]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
But now you're actually putting some thought into your comments, and I think we're all the better for it.


... Unless it's just someone who is using flashpoint's name, in which case, forget I said anything.]]>Sep 9th 2008 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
It is however true that if MS did they own phones, they might be pushed a bit more to pull their fingers out and upgrade the whole system, since they care more about success of their own hw. As a whole, it pisses me off that there were so many obvious problems with mobile phones' UI 5 years ago and no one cared, until Apple came and did something (typical problem would be calendars and alarms, which pretty much sucked on the different phones for years and years - it's like 90% of the features were/are there just to put a checkbox on the package, and no one really expects them to be used). Then again, I was working in the industry before and given most of the people involved, I shouldn't be all that surprised.]]>Sep 9th 2008 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
Audio Craptasticness aside, I'm stoked for the FM music ID, very cool. I'm not a *-Pass $15/month fan, whether it be Real, Zune or Napster, and I buy my music from Russia DRM free, so the Marketplace improvements aren't exciting. Games could be cool, though depends how much disk space used and how much they will cost.

A simplistic web browser would have blown my socks off, though I realize the UI was never meant for the web, nor can I conceive how it would be best implemented. Typing would be supercraptastic! An addon wifi or plugin-to-dock keyboard would do it. They already have the Xbox360 mini keyboard, just do it for the Zune! Add a little tiny nub mouse like on those old IBM laptops.

I'm happy with my refurb $80 30GB v1.0 Zune -- it plays songs, the UI is fine, and it just works. I'd get the 120GB, but only when the price drops sub-$100, because I'm a cheapskate.]]>Sep 9th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
So essentially you pay Russian organized criminals for copies of music where none of the proceeds go to the artist? Why not just torrent them? It's no more of a copyright infringement and doesn't support organized crime.]]>Sep 9th 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I would, but I'm too apathetic to become rich. :\]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
(Or maybe not: http://www.phune.com/ is taken.)]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
LOL- see what I posted at almost the same time you said that? Wow!]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
-"Can you pass me zphone?"
-"No! Im le tired!"
-"Well, take a nap, THEN GIVE ME ZPHONE!"]]>Sep 9th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
..now that sounds chinese ;)]]>Sep 16th 2008 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
http://zollotech.com/content/zune-30-update-videos-released
]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I've shown you your mistake, not fix it!]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
Ignore the above.]]>Sep 9th 2008 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
Everyone keeps talking about how the iPods will look, but to me that doesn't matter if the software is crap. Zune 3.0 software and zune pass sound like a awesome combo.

My 5th gen ipod feels really outdated.]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I have an iPod classic, which I like very much. While it integrates beautifully with iTunes, I wish I had another choice, like the Zune. It can even be a hack so that iTunes can see it or whatever, I don't care.

It does Microsoft no good to limit their market like this.]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
It does Microsoft no good limiting their market like this?

What are you smoking?

I have no comments as to the quality of the Zune (never used one; haven't bought a new PMP since the Zune was released anyway), but what would Microsoft gain from this? The Zune has a tiny fraction of the Windows-using PMP market. There's simply no way they will get anywhere near that percentage of Mac users who use PMPs. Why should Microsoft devote resources to catering to a few thousand potential customers, when they could devote those resources appealing to the broader market?

It's like the "why write software for the Mac" argument times 10, since Mac users likely are already pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft, or both.]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I own a Zune. My biggest gripe is that I have to boot into windows just to sync it, so I never use it and Windows is an inferior operating system in my opinion and for my purposes. If I had a Mac Zune Player that would rock I would put the iPod Classic in a drawer instead. That is unless Apple has some incredible improvements with iTunes 8 and the new iPods.

A ton of my friends are Mac fans. Why are they all mac fans? It's not because it has an Apple logo on it, it's but because most of the time Apple has more technologically advanced and seamless devices with fewer issues and fewer stolen ideas. We're not stuck on Rotten Apples or Broken Windows. If there is a better technology elsewhere, that's what we'll get. Just not if that means we have to run on a buggy and inferior OS which currently is windows....or vista, or mojave, or whatever it is microsoft is calling it these days. So, give us a Mac Zune Player.

One last thing. The Zune culturally targets a younger demographic (Teens/College Students/etc.), with its "Welcome to the Social" type stuff. Guess what the platform of choice is for this demographic...Mac. (Don't believe it, go walk through any campus and pay attention)]]>Sep 9th 2008 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
kthx]]>Sep 9th 2008 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
WhyTF does that have anything to do with it? If a device meets your needs, what the hell does it matter where the idea came from?

I call shenanigans. ]]>Sep 9th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I'm not saying that they should, or even would be a good move to support Zune on Mac, just pointing out that your opinion of "why wrote software for the Mac" is flawed to some degree.]]>Sep 9th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://youtube.com/watch?v=WRLRjKCGHek
LOL I love this vid]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 14th 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I'd guess that they're not in a hurry to include it because they're only selling the Zune in North America now. Maybe we're the beta testers?]]>Sep 9th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
I'm gonna get this update as soon as it hits]]>Sep 13th 2008 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Zune has finally hit its prime.]]>Sep 10th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/it used to suck with importing music and editing info but now it works just fine sooooo yea
the zune 80 is fantastic and destroys ipods buddy]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
On one hand, I am depressed that I can't have a Zune. On the other, I am optimistic that one day, just one day, I will be able to use this wonderfully crafted PMP.]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/
When it comes to laptops though, yeah, I'm an AFB.]]>Sep 9th 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/zune-3-0-video-blowout-with-just-a-hint-of-a-zune-phone/Sep 9th 2008 2:01AM