Playlouder - Music is the Network

Hot Chip had a Zune - Microsoft have it to them because EMI put their video on it

I fiddled with it a bit - I think the general consensus was that it was not worth hacking, even with the wifi

didn't you have one that sat in its original plastic for months, paul?

that was the mofo

it felt horrible

I love the idea of the Zune, it's so Microsoft: let's copy the iPod, turn the screen round the wrong way, make the controller look like a scroll wheel but not work like one, turn it brown and hobble the single innovative feature. Oh, why's it not selling?

i really felt for hot chip when i saw the shitbrick site

It's not a problem, it never hurt The Dooby Brothers being on 8 track

did you do the rollover on the shitbrick site?

Yep. With a project manager standing over my shoulder. Oops.

ha!

Did you ever see SanDisk's risible "iDont" campaign whose sole premise was that the iPod is bad because it's popular?

iriver did something similar - be a rebel, use windows drm!

but are they laughing now?

But customers love DRM! It lets them use their music on any device - er, unless it's not one of the devices that supports one of Microsoft's random carousel of new DRM marketplaces

Looks like Gates & Co. are also facing another $900,000-plus lawsuit for their shitty Office software fucking up web browsers so it's not surprising they come out with a carbon-copy mp3 player in order to dupe consumers to make up for their settlement losses. I personally can't see any other reason on why they'd push such a piece of shit player with a marketing campaign (at least in America) that also mimics the iClod. "Zune" yeah say it out loud a few times and never will it become a household name. The iClod for the desperate non-conformist asshole who seriously believes Micro$oft actually can make a decent product.

Here's something not a lot of people know: The only Microsoft products lines ever to have made a profit, ever, are DOS, Windows and Office. Every single other product loses money.