New Zunes
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The new Zunes are pretty nice. WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device and the product design is a whole lot better. No brown though :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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The new Zunes are pretty nice. WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device and the product design is a whole lot better. No brown though :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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The new Zunes are pretty nice. WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device and the product design is a whole lot better. No brown though :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
I am impressed by the hardware but it seems they won't work with all my computers. That's the only reason I love my ipod shuffle. I can access it from my mac, windows box, and my linux laptop.
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The new Zunes are pretty nice. WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device and the product design is a whole lot better. No brown though :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
The new Archos 605 is WiFi. You can surf with it too.
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The new Zunes are pretty nice. WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device and the product design is a whole lot better. No brown though :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
Meh.
Paul Watson wrote:
No brown though
What, the ammo-box green ain't *ahem* "good" enough for you? Clashes with your new corduroy suit, eh? ;P Other than demonstrating that the wind is indeed blowing hard away from DRM, i don't see the draw. From the sound of it, they're still doing as little as possible with the WiFi bit... which isn't even unique anymore. So yeah. Are they waiting for Apple to do their own all-singing, all-dancing, you don't even need a desktop WiFi upgrade before taking the plunge? The "don't stand out from the pack and you won't get picked off" strategy? WTF? Oh, and one more thing i don't understand:
The Zune software is all new and rewritten, and is supposed to actually be more than a rebadge of WMP10 now.
Why?! The MSN team did this too - ditched the flagship browser to write their own. Is the extensibility API for WMP that bad? Does the Zune team hate the interface as much as i do? Is there so much overhead to communication within MS that getting a big Zune bitmap into the UI would have taken twenty years and enough paperwork to mop the sweat off of Ballmer's forehead for a fortnight?! Or is this a calculated move to avoid being sued for bundling a promotional tool in with the OS... oh, wait, nevermind.
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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
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The new Archos 605 is WiFi. You can surf with it too.
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
Looks more like an Ultra-Mobile PC.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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Meh.
Paul Watson wrote:
No brown though
What, the ammo-box green ain't *ahem* "good" enough for you? Clashes with your new corduroy suit, eh? ;P Other than demonstrating that the wind is indeed blowing hard away from DRM, i don't see the draw. From the sound of it, they're still doing as little as possible with the WiFi bit... which isn't even unique anymore. So yeah. Are they waiting for Apple to do their own all-singing, all-dancing, you don't even need a desktop WiFi upgrade before taking the plunge? The "don't stand out from the pack and you won't get picked off" strategy? WTF? Oh, and one more thing i don't understand:
The Zune software is all new and rewritten, and is supposed to actually be more than a rebadge of WMP10 now.
Why?! The MSN team did this too - ditched the flagship browser to write their own. Is the extensibility API for WMP that bad? Does the Zune team hate the interface as much as i do? Is there so much overhead to communication within MS that getting a big Zune bitmap into the UI would have taken twenty years and enough paperwork to mop the sweat off of Ballmer's forehead for a fortnight?! Or is this a calculated move to avoid being sued for bundling a promotional tool in with the OS... oh, wait, nevermind.
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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
I was trying to be positive about something from Microsoft, for a change. But yeah. What you said :sigh:
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
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The new Zunes are pretty nice. WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device and the product design is a whole lot better. No brown though :(
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Andy Brummer wrote:
Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.
Paul Watson wrote:
WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device
Why cant they use bluetooth instead of WiFi?
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Paul Watson wrote:
WiFi synch is something I've long wanted from a music device
Why cant they use bluetooth instead of WiFi?
Because, what if you wanted to walk into your favorite coffee shop and download a few songs on the free WiFi? Bluetooth wouldn't let you do that... and neither will Zune... but it could. Wait 'till v3.1 - that's when it'll start to live up to its potential. :rolleyes:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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Meh.
Paul Watson wrote:
No brown though
What, the ammo-box green ain't *ahem* "good" enough for you? Clashes with your new corduroy suit, eh? ;P Other than demonstrating that the wind is indeed blowing hard away from DRM, i don't see the draw. From the sound of it, they're still doing as little as possible with the WiFi bit... which isn't even unique anymore. So yeah. Are they waiting for Apple to do their own all-singing, all-dancing, you don't even need a desktop WiFi upgrade before taking the plunge? The "don't stand out from the pack and you won't get picked off" strategy? WTF? Oh, and one more thing i don't understand:
The Zune software is all new and rewritten, and is supposed to actually be more than a rebadge of WMP10 now.
Why?! The MSN team did this too - ditched the flagship browser to write their own. Is the extensibility API for WMP that bad? Does the Zune team hate the interface as much as i do? Is there so much overhead to communication within MS that getting a big Zune bitmap into the UI would have taken twenty years and enough paperwork to mop the sweat off of Ballmer's forehead for a fortnight?! Or is this a calculated move to avoid being sued for bundling a promotional tool in with the OS... oh, wait, nevermind.
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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
How can the software be "all new and rewritten"? Surely it's one or the other? :confused:
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How can the software be "all new and rewritten"? Surely it's one or the other? :confused:
It's new... AND improved!
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Because, what if you wanted to walk into your favorite coffee shop and download a few songs on the free WiFi? Bluetooth wouldn't let you do that... and neither will Zune... but it could. Wait 'till v3.1 - that's when it'll start to live up to its potential. :rolleyes:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
Shog9 wrote:
Wait 'till v3.1
Surely you mean 3.11 (for Workgroups!) :->