Introducing the Microsoft Zune!
The day has finally arrived and the Zune is here. If you haven’t given much attention to all the press, then shame on you. Microsoft has aired all types of commercials and concerts. Check out some of the photos and commercials for the Zune release.
Bill Gates gave away a Zune to a lucky person at the Zune release concert in Seattle, WA. The Secret Machines also perform for the Zune release.
Queens of the Stone Age playing at the Zune Release in New York
Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at the release party in Los Angeles
Richie Spice performs in Miami, FL for the Zune release.
The Zune release in Atlanta, GA T.I. performs.
If you missed the commercials for the Microsoft Zune, here are a few for you to check out.
Zune Fire Birds
Zune Spinners
Zune Pixels
Zune in the Snow
Zune and the Ballad of Lion and Gazelle
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Microsoft Zune (Black)
Microsoft Zune (White)
Microsoft Zune (Brown)
Wow! This must be the most incredible overview I’ve yet seen of the Zune. Great stuff!
Now a perma-section!
Hmmm…. Somebody’s anti-zune…
Here’s a consumer’s more serious look at the Zune, courtesy of http://www.stuff.co.nz in New Zealand:
Donna Murphy is no fan of the ubiquitous iPod music player so today she became one of the first to buy Microsoft’s new rival Zune device.
“I just needed a new MP3 player to play my music and watch videos,” said Murphy, who bought a Zune at Best Buy’s midtown Manhattan store. “I’m not an Apple fan, not an iPod fan. So I wanted to try something different.”
Microsoft on Tuesday hit store shelves with Zune, touted in the media as the most likely candidate yet to challenge Apple’s market-dominating iPod.
But initial shopper interest suggested the Zune media player - heavily promoted in gadget reviews and television talk shows - was in for a slow building process.
An employee at the Best Buy store said two shoppers entered the place as it opened and purchased Zune players, and that about 20 were sold within the first three hours.
Microsoft itself has acknowledged that the Zune investment may take years to bear fruit, and analysts upheld the expectation.
“Apple will not feel any bit of discomfort from Zune, certainly this holiday season and a good part of next year,” said IDC analyst Danielle Levitas.
“Microsoft is going to put tons of money in this over time, much like they did with the Xbox” video game console, she said. “It’s not about the first generation (of devices).”
Digital music players, also called MP3 players, let consumers save thousands of songs to a pocket-sized device.
Gadget reviewers have criticised the device for being larger and heavier than the iPod, as well as describing its song download service as more complicated than iTunes.
Daily newspaper USA Today said the Zune simply failed to match the iconic status of its rival with the headline phrase: “It’s no iPod.”
Others like the Zune’s larger screen and the hand-held device’s ease of use, something shopper Murphy agreed with.
“It’s the size of the screen, that’s the main reason I bought it,” she said