Comments on: Microsoft and Zune: the next few years

By: csi24

csi24 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:28:25 +0000

I really hope Microsoft sticks with the Zune because I still love my gen 1 Zune 30. I have an iPhone but if Microsoft released a Zune phone I’d be on that right away. The Zune is getting made better and better everytime it’s released, and so is the software. So keep it up Microsoft, competition is a lovely thing!

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:24:28 +0000

See people, why you can be like this guy. Where’s the love!

By: webonics

webonics — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:58:53 +0000

Apple power user here…but Zune lover. The device is outstanding and so much better than my iPods. Zune music management software still needs some work but the new version next week may go a good distance. Another thing that I absolutely LOVE is that the new updates are backward-compatible all the way back to generation 1. Now that’s a great selling point.

By: zeasar

zeasar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:35:45 +0000

You’ve got to remember that Apple is more than just “iPods”, OSX is still one of their upper hands against micro$oft.

In your article you said microsoft wanted to integrate all those devices and “connect people”. Well, we have already seen the integration from apple: universal ipod docking cable, iphone remote app, and the patients they have filed holds a lot more promise than microsoft’s “intentions”. And a lot of the iphone apps are already connecting iphone users like never before.

And unless windows 7 is built from the ground up, its not going to perform much better then vista. Needless to say it wont even compete with the performance gain with snow leopard’s architecture.

By: realnbk

realnbk — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:54:49 +0000

THe Ipod only became a real hit after 2004.
the iPhone is only 14 months old. Give it another year or so.
But this is not about how good apple is. Again. It is how many bad decisions Microsoft have made. A device called Zune will never make it past the diehard fans for its shear name. My brother is not a fan of Appl, he is all for windows and he wants an iPod and only heard of the Zune when I told him about it.
“welcome to the social” is so lame. I mean the Bill & Jerry thing is pathetic. Microsoft Live… and it goes on. THe only decent thing they have is Microsoft office and maybe the xbox (now that’s a simple effective cool name – they should have named the Zune something like x-box. On the other hand, I do not like the name mobile me from Apple either and that sounded more like something Microsoft would use.

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:03:07 +0000

I think the whole issue is that Apple was REALLY on fire 5 years ago when they reeeeeally had a superior product (old ipod). The iPhone and Touch are great but still not total coups the way the original iPod was. It was in getting that huge amount of marketshare at the beginning (and let’s give them credit, keeping it for years) that Apple is in its position now.

By: realnbk

realnbk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:50:23 +0000

“it may be Apple getting leapfrogged by Microsoft next time instead of the other way around”

not this time. Ever heard of patents? Dream on!
Microsoft problem is not that Apple is on fire right now, it’s that they are sucking simultaneously while apple is on fire.