Zune, Microsofts answer to the iPod has received a very unwelcome response over this past week. Although costing the same, $250, the Zune offers but one feature the iPod does not, Squirting. lol, what an mmmtarded name.
After perusing through some mp3 player reviews and professional opinion columns I started paying closer attention to the user commented sections. The actual users had a lot more to say than the regurgitating opinion columnists.
So why is it when there's a pro-Apple product review the reviewer is somehow biased? Five reasons why the iPod is better than the Zune:
1. The iPod's been around long enough to work out some of the initial kinks in the earlier iPods. Zune is first generation and will improve.
2. The scrolling wheel. Why try to "copy" it when you can't? Zune designers should have considered a creative alternative.
3. Podcasts. I listen to more podcasts than music. Apple's always enriching the pot of downloadables: music, video, podcasts, and now games. Zune doesn't support podcasts.
4. Squirting? Zune's big feature? I'm just waiting to see if the Zune becomes as big a virus target as every other Microsoft product. If so, they've built in the mechanism for disaster in the very first model. How long before people are (unknowingly) "squirting" Zune viruses at each other?
5. A song on iTunes is 99 cents. There's no "Apple Bucks" or "iTunes Points." No initial sum required. iTunes works on Macs and PCs. It's simple and easy. Yet someone at Microsoft looked at that and said, "no... I've got a better idea." Microsoft abhors simple logic. They built their music empire upon the name Zune...but take a look at zune.com. Did no one think to buy this domain?
Thank you so much Molly_Maine who commented on SFGate.com. That comment and many more like it can be found as you scroll down, which to me holds more weight than what the paid writers have to say.
