Tuesday Zune Round-Up
Happy Zune Day everybody! There interweb is awash with lovely Zune news, so let’s see how much we can munch through…There are obviously a whole lot of writers who have either been lucky enough to get a free Zune or two in the post or who have spent their own hard-blogged cash buying one. Robert Scoble falls into the first camp, perhaps unsurprisingly considering who most recently comes under “previous employer” on his CV; Robert has been flaunting his Zunes around staff atRetrevo, a new gadget search engine, who seem to think that while the iPod still rules theZune isn’t far behind.
Then of course there are the unboxing photoshoots:Gizmodohave spared their Zunes the rooftop treatment doled out to thePS3 and Wiiearlier on this week, and this time stay indoors, whileGear Diaryalso has some great photos of Judie’s 30gb Zune coming out of its packaging. TDavid goes one better with avideo unboxing, posted a mere seven hours or so after he pondered the50/50 chancethat he would even buy one at all
General opinion is that Microsoft has done a Good Thing by avoiding the typical clichéd box design, instead putting something together that competes nicely with Apple while not directly aping them.
Finally, for now,Engadgetissues a call for anyone who has publicly shared music using the Zune’s built-in wifi; so far the comments seem to be mainly discussing the state of the software installation (which is proving to bebuggy), whether sharing music is cool or not, and the expected “Microsoft is crap, iPod is far better”. It’s nice to know that some things never change.
