Zut!
Oui, it’s true. The Zune HD we’re all pumped for will not be hitting Europe this year, if indeed it does at all. Microsoft France’s entertainment division director has said during and interview that “for now, we have no intention of marketing (it here)” or, to be precise, “pour le moment, nous n’avons aucune intention de le commercialiser.” Okay, that’s one way to get your product out there…
To be fair, the European music landscape is much different and has significant non-overlapping parts. The Zune team produces a lot of content around each artist, like bios and custom pages on the Social site, so it actually would be a lot more work to bring to Europe than simply shipping a few boxes.
I guess they had to choose between launching a player with little local support and launching it later with something better to prop it up. And since Zune’s brand relies heavily on its backend stuff, they had to go with the latter. Still disappointing, I imagine, to a lot of fans over there.
[via WMPowerUser]
Zune playar for dumb…
Becuase iPod Touch is way way way better than Zune HD…with more than 75000 Applications with Apple’s No.1 customer service ,iTunes Store and Powerful iPhone OS 3.1.
Although the IPod Touch has more application the hardware that this is designed on top of trumps that of the IPod Touch and even the 3GS processing power. The Nvidia Tegra chip, coupled with the OLED screen gives this more power than the IPod models but also much more battery life.
“Le Zune HD, c’est seulement dans les Etats-Unis cette année”.
Oooops ! Sorry devin to correct but in 100% correct French it goes like this :
“Le Zune HD, c’est seulement aux [not 'dans les'] Etats-Unis cette année”.
I am sure those English speaker coureageous enough to learn French will appreciate this very small correction.
Thank you. Rookie mistake, I haven’t spoken French in years.
No worry : As a native French speaker I find it nice to have a full title in French in an americain newspaper.
Et comme ils dissent là bas : “Vive la révolution …. numérique” and thanks to Crunchteam for talking about it.