New Zunes! (meh)

Maybe it was my horrible experience with Dell and Windows at 13 that drove me away forever, maybe it’s the unquestionable superior products that Apple puts out time and again that make me scoff at anything Microsoft attempts to do. Even their commercials are bad. Besides, what the hell is Seinfeld doing shoe shopping will Bill Gates? He should be at home where he belongs, naked in a bathtub filled with money watching Seinfeld reruns as his bank account passes Gates’.

That brings me to the new Zune HD, Microsoft’s next answer to the iPod Touch, which came out three days ago. And boy am I excited. About as excited as anyone watching an episode of The View.

I read a review of the new Zune and to paraphrase, what it said was, “The new Zune has a web browser just like the iPod Touch, you can pinch to zoom in and out; there’s no flash; the Zune can connect to Wi-Fi too,” and those were the so-called “standout” features. The review ended by saying that for Apple fans there’s no reason to switch to the Zune, like any of us were considering it.

The Zune’s main problem is that it has all been done before in better ways and playing catch up isn’t convincing many that Apple’s bandwagon isn’t the right one to be on. Apple has such a solid base as a music platform that they can afford to market the Touch as something completely different: a gaming system.

The one thing that the Zune does have going for it is a fixed price point for unlimited music. So filling your Zune can be cheaper than filling your iPod (depending on who you talk to and if you subscribe to the whole piracy thing). Aside from that I’ll take the superior software and design, the attention to almost every minute detail of the device that I keep in my pocket every day: the iPod.

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