Comments on: Will Zune Crash Before it Takes Off?

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:27:31 +0000

I hope it does well, frankly. It will be good for iPod fans, good for Apple (AAPL). Good for everyone when there’s competition in the marketplace, as it brings up everyone’s game.

By: Yasser Dahab

Yasser Dahab — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:33:51 +0000

True enough, Akshay. The other concern I’m sure they’ve been concerned with is propagation of iPod-based viruses. It hasn’t been a problem yet, but if Apple adds a wireless feature and starts to promote iPod promiscuity, you can be sure that viruses will start popping up.

By: Akshay Rawat

Akshay Rawat — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:34:45 +0000

There is no doubt that social networking is the future. Job realises this and is current hindered by the low wireless transfer speeds. Also having a builtin wireless chip means lower battery life. Battery technology doesnt seem to be getting any better in the future, but having a more socialable ipod is perhaps a reasonable tradeoff. Psp`s wifi does quite well in ad hoc mode, although I`m not sure what the max speeds are.

By: Milkpoo

Milkpoo — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:25:09 +0000

Zune is funny, its like an interactive device that does the same things as the celphones. Why should anyone buy a Zune if their phone is doing the same things Zune does. The difference between a Zune and a regular multimedia phone is almost none. The ipod instead is unique. Its functions are “Ipodish” there will never be two ipods.

By: Tuck

Tuck — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:10:24 +0000

I doubt 6G will come out anytime soon. They just announced 5.5G and that would make a great number of people quite upset. Anyways Jobs realizes Zune isn’t anything to worry about because when is the last time Microsoft made ANYTHING correctly the first time?

Remember, at Microsoft Quality is job 1.1

By: Yasser Dahab

Yasser Dahab — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:06:27 +0000

Ha! I love it! Thanks, Larry.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:43:06 +0000

The difference between podcasting and zunecasting…
http://pcweenies.org/toon_archive.php?toon=925