Just got off the phone with Microsoft about the new Zune and the magic therein. It’s a 30GB player that comes in three colors - black, white, and brown - and plays back most major file formats. That much you can read over at CrunchGear so head over there if you want the specs.
Of specific interest to TC readers, however, is the social sharing system. The Zune has 802.11 networking built in and you can send a song to your friend for three days or three plays, which ever comes first. The goal, obviously, is to sell music. However, we could also conceivably see this as a MySpace-like network of users who pop music to each other with giddy abandon and infect others with their musical stylings on the train (perhaps a sandwich board that says “I’ll Send My New HARDCORE RAP Single to Your Zune. Talk to me. Please?”) Once you get back home you can connect to the Zune Marketplace - and presumably an artists home page - where you can learn more and buy music.
[Picture courtesy of Engadget]
Clearly all the data isn’t in yet, but this definitely pushes the MP3 player out of the pocket and into the realm of social networking. The question, obviously, is what is Apple going to do about this and, as a corrallary, how low Apple and Creative shares are selling as we speak? Perhaps MS could create a “Zune Inside” logo for those guys? Or maybe fund a halfway house for underconnected MP3 players?
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Wal-Mart has Zune pages up on their website already…
http://www.walmart.com/catalog.....cat=538220
I do not think this will take off, or at least if it does it will not be because of the music sharing features.
Firstly, for the music sharing to be successfull there will need to be vast numbers of Zune users, what’s the point of being able to share music if you haven’t anyone to share with? And the possibility of there being the numbers of users required is of course low because of Apple’s grip on the market.
Secondly, I very much doubt it’d be used much anyway. Who’s going to be advertising the fact they are carrying an expensive gadget like a Zune on a train? This feature will be used mainly by friends who have Zunes… many of which currently send music to each other via the internet anyway.
Perhaps if Microsoft significantly undercut Apple’s iPod pricing it will be successfull, but only perhaps.
Microsoft’s iPod competitor, Zune, will be released on November 14.
Is it just me or is the Zune kind of ugly looking?
Microsoft’s zune was going to release, following zune converter software in http://www.dvdtozuneconverter.com front
had already issued, had a look,
Do you know Microsoft company will release zune player, but http://www.zunevideoconverter.net already released
convert zune software. is it really?
I Agree with Timothy. I definitely don’t think the Zune will take off either. My personal opinion, I never owned a Microsoft Product that actually worked. And I can only imagine what problems will come with this Zune, Especially with the music sharing feature.
I Agree with Timothy. I really don’t think this Zune will take off either. My own opinion, I never owned a Microsoft product that actually worked. So I can only imagine what problems people will come across with the Zune. And besides Apple Does own the market.
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http://www.bestshareware.net/h.....n-zune.htm
the RIAA can kiss my ass.
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