Microsoft Kills the Zune

[inflamessoilwork]

Nooooooooo!

I love my Zune, still have the original brick. This thing is a tank. Dropped in multiple times on concrete, still works as if it was right out of the box. Went through 4 ipods in 2 years before I found my Zune.

I am disappoint.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Phew, for a second there I was afraid they were killing the software.

Can someone please explain to me why no one bought a Zune or hardly anyone? Like that guy said, it did everything an iPod does but no one (hardly anyone) bought a Zune, after seeing what the zune looks like, i might go out and buy a pink one

I don't know why everyone bags on the zune; it was everything the iPod was + radio, for a few bucks cheaper. I've never been angry at my zune or the software, yet my mom constantly rages at iTunes. Oh well, sheep will be sheep.

but it wasn't nearly as refined as the iPod.

lolwut

You didn't hear? Anyone who calls someone else a "sheep" pejoratively is immediately disregarded in every matter, ever.

Seriously, stop it.

Then what are people you buy Apple products solely because they're Apple products?

Apple fans. Sheep are incapable of buying things, being sheep.

 

[icyneesan]

Meh, Zune was never as cool as Sony's Walkman

 

[Shy_Guy]

Apple fans. Sheep are incapable of buying things, being sheep.

Sheep: One falls off a cliff and dies, the rest follow just because the one did. Analogy well enough appropriate for all the idiotic Apple love.

 

[mjc0961]

I buy phones when I need to call someone. I use mp3 players to listen to music. Phones are not in competition with mp3 players.

Agreed. Phones aren't in competition with MP3 players. Smart phones are, but not regular phones. And all I want is a nice cheap regular phone that can call people and an MP3 player, not one smart phone with poor battery life and a huge monthly bill I have to pay just because it has a metric fuck-ton of features I will never use.

Then what are people you buy Apple products solely because they're Apple products?

Call them iSheep and slap a picture of an apple with one bite taken from it on them (Note: it has to be shiny) and they'll love being called sheep.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I'm sorry Microsoft what was that you say not enough "money" in your pocket?.

 

[Gammaj4]

Thing is, and this is pure speculation on my part, I doubt we're going to see much in the way of MP3 Player sales of any kind. Everyone's phones already play music, and many now have traditional 3.5mm jacks. I really see no purpose in even carrying my MP3 player anymore.
So yeah, that's my two cents.

 

[Juion]

I like my Zune that I got for $3.

 

[Caprice0083]

This blows, I brought my Zune HD launch day because of the two iPods that quit on me and resources hogging software we know as iTunes was really starting to piss me off. This thing has survive war with me and honestly has better sound quality than the iPods. Microsoft marketed this thing wrong and barely did anything with it in terms of games and apps. The Zune didn't fail, Microstupid did.

 

[godfist88]

it was bound to happen, the Zune just can't compare.

 

[Therumancer]

I bet this guy [http://gizmodo.com/#!318794/zune-tattoo-guy-legally-changing-his-name-to-microsoft-zune-is-clearly-insane] is feeling really, really smart now:

To be entirely honest the point of people pulling stunts like that usually isn't because they are insane or stupid, but because they are trying to get attention from the company. There are a few cases out there of celebrities who got recognized and catapulted to fame and fortune (or just sticking around long enough to make some decent money) due to wierd stunts.

I think the idea was that the guy got a couple of simple tattoos and took pictures for the internet, it's cheap enough, can be hidden, and can be removed. Since he started to get some notoriety and be recogized, the name changing stunt was to draw more attention. The intent was probably for Microsoft to notice him and figure "hey this guy is well known, and becoming connected to our product" and then pay him to act as a mascot and do commercials or whatever.

There are worse plans, and when he came up with it back in 2007 and probably seemed like it had more of a chance of success, and he figured he'd get a few laughs if nothing else. I'd imagine he'll just get his name changed back and the tattoos removed, or inked over. None of the tattoos he has that I can see seem especially elaborate, and could be easily removed by intergrating them into other designs and filling them in where nessicary, if lasers or whatever are simply too expensive.

Truthfully, very little surprises me with tatoos or name changes anymore, there have just been too many people exploiting them for shocks, and Tatts in paticular are hardly as permanant as they once were. Decades ago if you got really drunk/wasted, scored with a girl, and decided to have the night memorialized by having a tatoo of an antique diving helmet with the caption "Muff Diver" placed on your forehead, it was likely to be there for the rest of your life unless you were stupidly rich. Nowadays it's not cheap to get rid of, but hardly catastrophic.

 

[Skizle]

great now i have to put up with Apple. Although I've kinda lost faith in Microsoft. They just dont know how to compete in the business world at all. I really dont see why I have to pay $10 to watch netflix on my 360 ( ever since i built my PC it has since started collecting dust)

 

[littlewisp]

Apple fans. Sheep are incapable of buying things, being sheep.

Sheep: One falls off a cliff and dies, the rest follow just because the one did. Analogy well enough appropriate for all the idiotic Apple love.

I think you're confusing sheep with the lemming shtick. I thought the whole sheep thing got popular because sheep do (or, are coerced/tricked into doing) what their shepherd tells them to do. If you're saying they're following each other, you might as well throw in any other herd animals.

I submit: cows.

OT: I never really heard much about the Zune until now. Go go advertising!

 

[Rivers Wells]

Ok, the last line in this article got me pretty good.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Wait, are we sure it was Microsoft? I was under the impression that it was, you know, the consumers.

Or the butler.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Apple fans. Sheep are incapable of buying things, being sheep.

Sheep: One falls off a cliff and dies, the rest follow just because the one did. Analogy well enough appropriate for all the idiotic Apple love.

And I assume you think you're the aloof, superior wolf, right?

On a side note, sheep actually aren't that stupid, a rather hilarious misconception considering the usage of the term.

 

[Rivers Wells]

Ok, the last line in this article got me pretty good.

EDIT: Also, in response to some of the Apple hate here: I own an iPhone, a Macbook, and an iMac. I prefer the Macbook and iMac over the PC's I've had and dealt with for several years.

Spoiler

 

[Doowoo]

Im Danish, and before i read this thread is was like... wtf is zune ?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Going toe to toe with Apple was never a good idea; Microsoft's target should have been the smaller players, like San-disk, Creative, and Cowon, all of whom put out a better product than apple at a lower cost, but none of whom have quite the market share that Apple does. Microsoft's plan with the Zune was akin to whoever currently owns the rights to the Amiga deciding to relaunch the OS, and trying to compete directly with Microsoft, instead of with Apple and the various Linux and Unix based systems.

 

[0_Insomnis_0]

Can anyone who bought a Zune truthfully say it's better than an iPod? Who didn't see this coming?