Comments for AppleMatters: Zune undoomed at http://www.zune-online.com , comment 0 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.zune-online.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:22:24 +0200 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/applematters-zune-undoomed.html#pc_67 My gripes are with the business, not the product. All in all, it's cool to see an alternative that shows promise to keep my podcast-music-video player of choice, the iPod, on its toes. I've digested seemingly every word and every video on the Web about the Zune and found the above piece from AppleMatters to be the most insightful analysis yet. (Likewise, I liked Engadget's review for hands-on details) Disclosure: I love my 60GB iPod. And I have a very high opinion Apple based on three years of living with an incredible customer experience. So. I will probably never buy a Zune, partially for that reason, and partially because I'm more into music and higher-res video and TV integration than I expect I'll ever get from Zune. HOWEVER I see you Zunesters doing fine without me in a couple of revs, and as your user base grows. The Xbox integration may well be a key to that success. So yes, this Mac geek applauds the entry of the Zune - an updated Toshiba Gigabeat - into the portable music/media marketplace. I do need to add that I think the MS deal to give Universal a percentage of every Zune unit sold... whether or not anyone buys Universal artists' music. This does NOT give anything to the artists, just the fat-cat execs and lawyers of the maor label. Major labels are the music industry's equivalent of Upton Sinclair's Jungle. If, as Zune/MS press flacks maintain, it's to help the artists, then great... give additional royalties to the indie artists in the Marketplace, too, for every Zune sold... whether people buy their music or not! Oh, heck... Welcome to the fray, Zunesters! - Bob6stringer Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:38:38 +0200