Comments on: Coming Zune: A REAL MP3 Player

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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:32:32 +0000

[...] come as no surprise to anybody that has been reading this blog for any amount of time. I wrote my first Zune post in July 2006, and did the math about why Zune is superior in this June 2008 article (boy did I get [...]

By: Michael Sainz

Michael Sainz — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:23:26 +0000

So here is what I think. If Microsoft comes out with an MP3 player and its just competing toe to toe with the IPod, Apple will win. What Microsoft needs to do is what they do best, change the playing field…aka change the market. Instead of it just playing music, have it do something else…give it an edge that we as consumers haven’t seen yet in a portable device.

Here is the thing…Microsoft knows this.

What I think it will have is something stripped right from MySpace…a social networking component to it. Think of an IPod that can talk to other IPod’s around them physically via a wireless network or something. That’s just scratching the surface. What if you could download music without a PC? What if you could subscribe to a radio stations music RSS list and when you hear a song on the radio that you don’t know the name or group, you could easily look it up on the device, and of course have the option to download the track or album? Again…scratching the surface.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:35:52 +0000

Long live the IPOD! Nothing will ever over take its domination.

I will always stick with my PC computer…but no more crappy MP3 players for me!

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:07:12 +0000

It’s always good to have a competitor step up and be noticed. Who better than Microsoft to put the kind of R&D into something like this? Still, they’re going to have to give me plenty of reason to switch from my iPod/iTunes setup. Maybe they’re there, but I just haven’t seen them yet. It will be interesting to see the specs and features when it comes out.

BTW–I think the podcast is different from just an mp3 link in a blog in that iTunes will automatically download it and transfer it to your iPod. That said, I think the “podcast” jargon has quickly grown to include any mp3 within a blog post.

By: JClay

JClay — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:29:20 +0000

still LOVE my iPod. LOVE IT!!!

LOVE my Mac too!