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"...the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face." - Avoid the loony Zune Andy Ihnatko in the Sun-Times.
There is just too much here to not add a few more quotes:
- "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," said Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group. "So it's time to get paid for it." Well, Morris is just a big, clueless idiot, of course. Do you honestly want morons like him to have power over your music player? Then go ahead and buy a Zune. You'll find that the Zune Planet orbits the music industry's Bizarro World, where users aren't allowed to do anything that isn't in the industry's direct interests.
- By forcing users to buy blocks of Zune Points (with a $5 minimum), the Marketplace only has to pay one credit-card processing fee.
- The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure.
- Result: The Zune will be dead and gone within six months. Good riddance.
While iTunes and Apple are far from the holy grail, actually it is one of the greatest pieces of software which really sucks, but it is still far better than anything going currently, so one last quote from Andy's great review:
- The iPod owns 85 percent of the market because it deserves to.
Amen.
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