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geekraver · 01-09-2007, 11:57 AM

Both touch screen and wireless would be great additions, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Plus an SDK of course so that we can do better things than Sony...

On an unrelated note, the Zune really is pretty cool. Yes, I work for MSFT, but I'm not a zealot (I have Windows PCs at home, as well as a Mac (overrated, IMO - sheesh, you can't even seem to copy/move/delete two files in parallel, or maybe I'm just stupid) and a Linux server (which is where those published rss2book feeds live :-) ). I own a Zen Vison M, my wife has an iPod. But I got to play with a Zune for a few days and it has a great UI, fantastic screen, and excellent sound. If MSFT opened it up to developers it would make a pretty good e-book reader! The music sharing things doesn't interest me, but having wifi in the device nontheless offers a lot of potential for interesting updates in the future. I think a lot of criticism of Zune is ill-informed knee-jerk Microsoft bashing, which is something I've never liked even in my pre-MSFT days when I was a hardcore FreeBSD guy.

01-09-2007, 11:57 AM	#22
geekraver Addict Posts: 364 Karma: 1035291 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Device: iPad Mini,Kindle Paperwhite	Both touch screen and wireless would be great additions, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Plus an SDK of course so that we can do better things than Sony... On an unrelated note, the Zune really is pretty cool. Yes, I work for MSFT, but I'm not a zealot (I have Windows PCs at home, as well as a Mac (overrated, IMO - sheesh, you can't even seem to copy/move/delete two files in parallel, or maybe I'm just stupid) and a Linux server (which is where those published rss2book feeds live :-) ). I own a Zen Vison M, my wife has an iPod. But I got to play with a Zune for a few days and it has a great UI, fantastic screen, and excellent sound. If MSFT opened it up to developers it would make a pretty good e-book reader! The music sharing things doesn't interest me, but having wifi in the device nontheless offers a lot of potential for interesting updates in the future. I think a lot of criticism of Zune is ill-informed knee-jerk Microsoft bashing, which is something I've never liked even in my pre-MSFT days when I was a hardcore FreeBSD guy. Last edited by geekraver; 01-09-2007 at 12:05 PM.