My Zune gave me a black eye, but saved my life?

Wow, that is a really harsh review.  I thought it was a standard blog rant at first, but it's on the Sun-Times.

This is not a rhetorical question... have any of you seen a single positive Zune review?

This thing, seemingly by all accounts, is currently garbage.  Now Microsoft has the luxury of being able to support a dog product for ages while they try to figure it all out.  Perhaps in a few years it'll be a decent player.  But I wouldn't hold my breath.

I'm an iPod guy.  We just went to three in the household (well, come 12/25).  But I can understand some of the reasons people don't want to go that route.  As Spacey said, if you don't want an iPod there are other choices out there.  Don't go with a Zune.

$0.02

 

How lame is that?

C'mon Aske, you can figure it out.   

Grrrrr... you disappoint me.   

So here you go and I'll repeat, "how lame is that?" 

http://www.zune.com

jon:~ jon$ whois zune.com

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   Domain Name: ZUNE.COM
   Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
   Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
   Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
   Name Server: VIGIA.SISTELCOM.COM
   Name Server: NS2.BT.ES
   Name Server: DNS.SISTELCOM.COM
   Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
   EPP Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 02-Nov-2006
   Creation Date: 21-Jun-1998
   Expiration Date: 20-Jun-2009

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Registrant:
Zune
   GATE MARKET RESEARCH LIMITED
   20-22 BEDFORD ROW
   LONDON, LONDON WC16 4JS
   UK

   Domain Name: ZUNE.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
      Nogales, Antonio          ang@zune.com
      GATE MARKET RESEARCH LIMITED
      20-22 BEDFORD ROW
      LONDON, LONDON WC16 4JS
      UK
      +34914350461 fax: +34915766735


   Record expires on 21-Jun-2009.
   Record created on 22-Jun-1998.
   Database last updated on 27-Nov-2006 20:11:53 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS2.BT.ES
   VIGIA.SISTELCOM.COM          195.82.150.101
   DNS.SISTELCOM.COM            195.82.150.100

Which zen do you have? I've got the 40gb Zen Touch, but I'm looking for something smaller (disk and physical size) for kicking around. Thinking MicroPhoto.