Zune not so Zimple
Everything that I’ve read about Microsoft’s new Zune MP3 player has been less than stellar. The Washing Post has a story complaining that Microsoft’s Zune Only Looks Simple.
Aside from the brown Zune, the player looks nice enough but apparently it isn’t very easy to purchase music for the player. Music subscriptions, Microsoft Points, incompatibilities with other Windows XP music services (Rhapsody, Napster or MSN Music songs) spell trouble for Zune.
Simple sells.
Why create Microsoft Points when we have real dollars and cents? Microsoft is just too big a beast to ‘get it’. Give them some time and I’m sure they’ll figure out ways to take market share from Apple but for the time being, Apple has nothing to worry about.
Stumble It!Posted in Technology at 12:18 AM
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Microsoft points are also used on Xbox Live. They are used as a way to throttle children’s spending. A parent can purchase a pre-paid card or pay online with a credit card and receive a set number of points. The child can then spend them in the xbox live market place until they are used up.
Posted by: Ryan on November 20, 2006 8:11 AM
I can imagine a few people in these MS meetings WANTING to go simple, beating their heads against the table when an exec says, “And we’ll have POINTS!”
Awesome.
Posted by: Shiz on November 23, 2006 1:21 PM
I´m very agree with that, I bought a Zune last month and i had much trouble installing the zune software in my desktop, even now i don’t know whats wrong with my computer, because when the software shut down it did’nt specifies the error, only says that there is an error, I hope someone could help me.
Thanks.
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