The most popular devices on the market today:
- iPhone
- iPad
- iPod Touch
- Xbox 360
- Android Phones
You know how many devices the Zune subscription service is on?
One.
Stop kicking the can, Microsoft, and man up. Zune cannot, and will never be, a success if it is limited to the Windows OS, the now dead Zune device, and the WP7 which has only managed to push 1.6 million devices. You have a great, no…, excellent music subscription service on your hands. But there is no way in hell that I can justify buying an over-priced Zune pass, and not be able to use it on my favorite devices.
Sorry to burst your bubble Microsoft, but your devices don’t fall in most people’s category of favorite devices, including mine. It seems that the team behind Bing and OneNote understand this, with both their apps considered by some to be better on competitive devices!
We no longer live in a Microsoft world, most actually live in an iTunes/Apple/Netflix world, with an exception to the Xbox 360. Having the Zune locked down to the Microsoft environment would make sense if Microsoft had anyone to lock down. But, due to Microsoft’s lackluster approach to smartphone’s until this last year (and no solid tablet strategy to date), they are no longer in any position to decide who can do what on which device.
This would still hold true if Microsoft lowered the semi-ridiculously high price of the Zune pass.
It’s time Microsoft to buck up, bite the bullet, and give me the Zune software on my Mac OS X and T-mobile G2. Otherwise you might as well send the Zune pass and software the way of the Zune device. My fear is no one will really give a damn.
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I think Microsoft handled Zune and its’ players incorrectly. We could say allot about the original Zune’s design and price. Apple's induction of the Iphone and IPod Touch, and how Microsoft being blocked, or their inability to get Zune into international markets affected it. And how the disconnect between Microsoft services and devices, such as Bing and WP7. They seem to develop on an island; there is not enough cooperation between them. And they should have not emulated ITunes, but did something more original. But what really hurt Zune was how it distributed, and how it should have been an open source music service. They should have disturbed Zune with Windows, because it would made it more accessible. May be as an extension of Windows Media Player are replaced it altogether. They also could have added it to Internet Explorer downloads like Apple did with ITunes and Safari. Now we have to wait and see what Microsoft is going to do. It may be solved with their partnership with Nokia, with mixing services. There are already rumors of name changes of Microsoft and Nokia media services. Nokia dropping Ovi name and Microsoft blending Zune name with other services. But I believe the best way of disturbing Zune is Bing. Make it the Bing music service, and use the best from Zune, Kin, and emulate Amazon cloud player service w/ Android functionality for WP7, and throw in a little Slacker, Last FM, Napster, OVI and ITunes. But I’m not asking for allot am I, I just hope Microsoft get its’ services working together and figures out soon.
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LikeBravo! The Zune library is far smaller than competitors (Rdio, Mog, Napster). Those services allow you to sync music to Android and iOS devices (not stream, but sync!) and all are less expensive. More devices, less money, more friendly services. Microsoft is fighting an up hill battle here.
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LikeI think Microsoft
handled Zune and its’ players incorrectly. We could say allot
about the original Zune’s design and price. Apple's induction of the Iphone
and IPod Touch, and how Microsoft being blocked, or their inability to get
Zune into international markets affected it. And how the disconnect between Microsoft
services and devices, such as Bing and WP7. They seem to develop on an island; there
is not enough cooperation between them. And they should have not emulated
ITunes, but did something more original. But
what really hurt Zune was how it distributed, and how
it should have been an open source music service. They should
have disturbed Zune with Windows, because it would made it more
accessible. May be as an extension of Windows Media Player are replaced it
altogether. They also could have added it to Internet Explorer downloads like
Apple did with ITunes and Safari. Now we have to wait and see what
Microsoft is going to do. It may be solved with their partnership with Nokia,
with mixing services. There are already rumors of name changes of Microsoft and
Nokia media services. Nokia dropping Ovi name and Microsoft blending Zune name with
other services. But I believe the best way of disturbing Zune is Bing. Make it the Bing music service, and use the
best from Zune, Kin, and emulate Amazon cloud player service w/ Android functionality
for WP7, and throw in a little Slacker, Last FM, Napster, OVI and ITunes. But I’m
not asking for allot am I, I just hope Microsoft get its’ services working together
and figures out soon.
- spam
- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
LikeThere's Zune on Xbox.
- spam
- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
LikeBravo! The Zune library is far smaller than competitors (Rdio, Mog, Napster). Those services allow you to sync music to Android and iOS devices (not stream, but sync!) and all are less expensive. More devices, less money, more friendly services. Microsoft is fighting an up hill battle here.
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- offensive
- disagree
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