The number one reason I think the Zune is better than the iPod is the Zune Pass. What is a Zune Pass, Mr. Darth?
For fifteen dollars a month, you can download all the music you want. Millions upon millions of songs are available to you to download whenever you want. The best part is that it's all legal.
Sounds too god to be true, right?
Well, there is a catch, you see. If you ever cancel this subscription, you lose it all. All of the songs you downloaded using the subscription are locked. You have to keep paying in order to keep playing.
But let's do some math. The cost of the average album is ten dollars (800 Microsoft points). A Zune Pass is fifteen dollars, basically one and a half albums. In three months, I've downloaded about one-thousand-five-hundred songs, which is basically 150 albums, a 150 dollar value.
So, for 45 dollars I've gotten 150 dollars worth of music. And that gap between what I pay and how much the music's worth will only grow exponentially over time. Wow.
And then Microsoft gives you ten songs to keep. Forever. Even if you cancel the subscription, those ten songs are yours. This is a ten dollar value.
So, basically you're really spending five dollars for all the music you want (if you look at it from a certain point of a view). 15 dollars for 1500 songs? I'm sold.
While the Zune's superior interface and better Marketplace usability is certainly up for the debate, I don't see how you could argue with a Zune Pass as being the best way to get music legally.
Please, discuss and debate this.
What do you think of the Zune Pass and would you consider getting a Zune with this in mind?
For fifteen dollars a month, you can download all the music you want. Millions upon millions of songs are available to you to download whenever you want. The best part is that it's all legal.
Sounds too god to be true, right?
Well, there is a catch, you see. If you ever cancel this subscription, you lose it all. All of the songs you downloaded using the subscription are locked. You have to keep paying in order to keep playing.
But let's do some math. The cost of the average album is ten dollars (800 Microsoft points). A Zune Pass is fifteen dollars, basically one and a half albums. In three months, I've downloaded about one-thousand-five-hundred songs, which is basically 150 albums, a 150 dollar value.
So, for 45 dollars I've gotten 150 dollars worth of music. And that gap between what I pay and how much the music's worth will only grow exponentially over time. Wow.
And then Microsoft gives you ten songs to keep. Forever. Even if you cancel the subscription, those ten songs are yours. This is a ten dollar value.
So, basically you're really spending five dollars for all the music you want (if you look at it from a certain point of a view). 15 dollars for 1500 songs? I'm sold.
While the Zune's superior interface and better Marketplace usability is certainly up for the debate, I don't see how you could argue with a Zune Pass as being the best way to get music legally.
Please, discuss and debate this.
What do you think of the Zune Pass and would you consider getting a Zune with this in mind?
