Why Zune is the future

O melhor da semana 02 de 2007

O melhor da semana 02 de 2007 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:22:50 GMT

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re: Why Zune is the future

Matt Freestone — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:16:51 GMT

Hi Maurice, I appreciate the comments. I couldn't agree more than the Zune software is sorely disappointing. Every item you listed is a weakness, and I really hope that the Zune team is reading blogs like this and taking the feedback into account. I've read some of the Zune teams' blogs as they tried to explain why certain items weren't added to the software initially, based on consumer demand. The one thing they failed to realise is that their initial customers will all be early adopters. Besides, there's no such thing as customer incompetence when it comes to a general user device. If a user isn't able to do something on a general consumer device, it's incompetence of the design team, not the customer.

So, granted, a long way to go in the software. My experience is that Microsoft will do a much better job, and much faster job at plugging the issues in their software than Apple, plus Microsoft has many more options they can move to, making the Zune go from a nice tinker toy like an iPod, to a mandatory device in your home. I think Microsoft didn't give the Zune team enough developer support and that's why they had to cut back features.

So, Microsoft, add more dev support and give us MORE FREEDOM with our OWN device! :-) Do that, and you'll win this fight without much struggle.

Thanks again Maurice!

re: Why Zune is the future

mauriceatkinson — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:03:01 GMT

Agree that the zune is a cool device - my son is an ardent ipod fan but wants my zune now he has seen and used it for a few hours.

but what have they done to the software -

no support for downloading podcasts

no ability to delete listened to items directly from zune

no support for upnp (why do I have to have zune monitor directories when I have a media server sat on my network)

My wife has an ipod nano and i thought itunes was poor at downloading and sync'ing content but overall it is a better app than the zune software. at least with itunes I dont need any other software to make full use of the ipod!!

Of course it may just be my incompetence.........