Snow Leopard coming out this Friday. Nokia shows new Netbook. Prices come soon. Swedes kill Pirate’s Bay. Blogger says she will sue Google over invasion of privacy. Multi-taskers turn out to be muddy headed. Yahoo beats up Sony over Launch streaming music. Experts predict failure for MSFT-Yahoo deal. Wolfram Alpha gets into the act. MSFT spends $1.9 million on Congress. Look for apps on the Zune.
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Contest (anything):
First Prize:
An Apple iPod!!
Second Prize:
A Zune!!
Third Prize:
Two Zunes!!
#1 Well, that contest is a lose-lose. I’d puke if I get the 1st prize and I’d yawn if I get the 2nd. Double yawn on the third.
I honestly don’t think Microsoft have the nous to make a competitive app store. They make slow, unintuitive web sites that make you jump through hoops and negotiate browser blocks.
#3 Very unlike what mac is currently doing with movie trailers on their page.
Pirate’s Bay is dead. Long live the Pirate’s Bay. Seriously, I torrent a lot and haven’t missed it. It is hard to kill a hydra,
#4 I hope MS are paying you to be defensive on their behalf, Pedro.
XNA. XNA.
XNA has been the code for Zune apps since v.3. of the OS. Since all the Zunes’ UI is built on WinCE and XNA will run on WinCE. Will there be apps on the Zune?
…drumroll please…
The answer has been “YES” a long time ago. (-.-#) All hype and speculation over an answer that has been answered a long time ago.
The REAL question is, “How will the Zune Marketplace offer applications to your/our Zunes?”
In the previous generation of Zunes and even today on the Marketplace I could not find more apps to download, but they are out there in the wild and in forums.
I know exactly one person that owns a Zune. She likes it, but then again, she is blond. I wouldn’t use a Zune if you gave it to me. I also don’t own any Apple products lest you think me a shill for the less Evil Empire.
#6 So tell me, oh deadly macfan, how is calling the zune a yawn defending MS? I’m waiting. Definitively, this blog is full of die hard fans weather they’re macfans or MS defenders to demagogues & repugblicans. Unable to see the middle, sensible point of view.
This blog needs a common sense enema.
#8 Funny. I have the exact same feeling, but with both the Zune and the oy!Pods. Now, I want to see #6 trying to say this is defending MS.
#9 I AM NOT A MAC FAN. I use Windows. I have always used windows. I have never used a mac. The only apple I have is an iPhone, which I like a lot. I’m not into the stupid side taking and brand loyalty, mac vs windows, republican vs democrat, coke vs pepsi etc. I call it as I see it.
There nothing more banal than some twit who, in response to a particular criticism, say’s “well x does it too”.
#10 Then, try to use your head a bit more. Making such (you must admit) dumb mistake as thinking I was defending MS when I was bashing it brings up that nice aspect of my personality.
#10 Then, try to use your head a bit more. Making such (you must admit) dumb mistake as thinking I was defending MS when I was bashing it brings up that nice aspect of my personality.
#12 A fair cop. But you are a serial MS defender