I have to say, that review would have turned me off to the Zune.
Wait, I'm already turned off. Picked one up at Best Buy and held it for 10 seconds. It was such cheap junk I had to laugh at the Best Buy salesman who came up and said it was so much better than those lame iPods.
Subscription? Yeah, as if I need to be sending out $16 a month to play someone else's music. I get my CDs for $3 - $7 used and I own the music for life.
Wow, you really put the Zune through its paces in those 10 seconds, you nailed it.
I literally have dozens of CDs I've purchased over the years that I absolutely never listen to anymore. That's a few years of Zune Pass I could have purchased instead, had it been available, and when the old stuff bores me I can dump it and replace with something else.
The most surprising thing about your post is that you met a Best Buy rep who would actually promote the Zune. Every time I've seen a Zune at Best Buy, besides the fact that the reps actively ignore it, the device was not even activated so none of the features could actually be demonstrated.
It's all subjective. Personally, I find the iPods to be cheaper feeling and much more dated looking (minus the Touch of course) than anything but the 1st gen Zunes.
Eric, You have no idea what you're missing out on. Having the complete freedom to hear any band at any time is the most liberating thing in the world for a music fan. I can't imagine going back to CD stores to buy albums based on how much I liked the band's last effort or what the artist's reputation is or how cool the album cover looks. There is no point to "owning" music anymore. None.
I find that almost everything tethered to the anti-theft devices at Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., feels toylike. I picked up a Canon 50D w weeks back, and thought it felt like plastic crap, which was surprising for a $1,600 SLR camera. My friend bought one last week, and it is solid as a rock. You can't really judge the feel of the devices, especially small ones like flash PMPs, when they are crazy glued to a spring loaded cable with a big chunk of plastic slapped on their back.
I buy CDs, I have record companies sending me them and I have a Zune pass. Since radio in my area stinks its a great way to hear new artists and if I like them I buy the albums.
Don't you people get it? He couldn't pass the screen that says "connect your zune to your pc" (or whatever) and got stuck there for 10 whole seconds. he probably said, "what a piece of junk, how can this thing play music when you can't get to it?"
@mrpoo the guy at best buy tole me that most of the time they don't even have real devices on display, just peices of plastic made to look like the device (that explains why the palm centro's keyboard fell off :-/)
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I have to say, that review would have turned me off to the Zune.
Wait, I'm already turned off. Picked one up at Best Buy and held it for 10 seconds. It was such cheap junk I had to laugh at the Best Buy salesman who came up and said it was so much better than those lame iPods.
Subscription? Yeah, as if I need to be sending out $16 a month to play someone else's music. I get my CDs for $3 - $7 used and I own the music for life.
Wow, you really put the Zune through its paces in those 10 seconds, you nailed it.
I literally have dozens of CDs I've purchased over the years that I absolutely never listen to anymore. That's a few years of Zune Pass I could have purchased instead, had it been available, and when the old stuff bores me I can dump it and replace with something else.
The most surprising thing about your post is that you met a Best Buy rep who would actually promote the Zune. Every time I've seen a Zune at Best Buy, besides the fact that the reps actively ignore it, the device was not even activated so none of the features could actually be demonstrated.
It's all subjective. Personally, I find the iPods to be cheaper feeling and much more dated looking (minus the Touch of course) than anything but the 1st gen Zunes.
Eric,
You have no idea what you're missing out on. Having the complete freedom to hear any band at any time is the most liberating thing in the world for a music fan. I can't imagine going back to CD stores to buy albums based on how much I liked the band's last effort or what the artist's reputation is or how cool the album cover looks. There is no point to "owning" music anymore. None.
I find that almost everything tethered to the anti-theft devices at Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., feels toylike. I picked up a Canon 50D w weeks back, and thought it felt like plastic crap, which was surprising for a $1,600 SLR camera. My friend bought one last week, and it is solid as a rock. You can't really judge the feel of the devices, especially small ones like flash PMPs, when they are crazy glued to a spring loaded cable with a big chunk of plastic slapped on their back.
mrpoo
You should probably start listening to some good music and not that disposable crap you end up getting sick of.
Wit! You must not have purchased any music during the '80's to be laying out a harsh retort like that.
I buy CDs, I have record companies sending me them and I have a Zune pass. Since radio in my area stinks its a great way to hear new artists and if I like them I buy the albums.
Don't you people get it? He couldn't pass the screen that says "connect your zune to your pc" (or whatever) and got stuck there for 10 whole seconds. he probably said, "what a piece of junk, how can this thing play music when you can't get to it?"
@mrpoo
the guy at best buy tole me that most of the time they don't even have real devices on display, just peices of plastic made to look like the device (that explains why the palm centro's keyboard fell off :-/)