Aug 3, 2006
by Cesar Menendez at 10:50 AM

Ok, it’s not much, but I snapped a few photos around the offices here and share them w/ you, dear blog reader.

The first one is a poster on the wall that outlines the goals for the Zune design: we want to be somewhere between Natural/Machine/Human/Synthetic.  Because I know you’ll ask: no, I can’t confirm if the images floating around are real, nor do I have a Zune to show you yet.

You’ll notice a lot of missing/censored parts on the second image. . .

That’s where the hardware designers are actually working: whiteboarding sketches and plans, and working with models on the table to see how they feel, how the navigation works, things like that. Of course I can’t show the designs right now, so I decided to go a little crazy on photoshop. More as I have it.

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I... I mean "We".. We need a Kristin Kreuk photo in that poster. It's the right thing to do. Do the right thing.
That is the biggest waste of Photoshop's power I have ever seen. Couldn't you have just used MS Paint for your amateur "redactions"?
This is cool that we get frequent updates on the zune. However, I'm more curious about Zune Live and it's similarities to xbox live. I wouldn't call myself a fanboy, but I realize that I'm a BIG MS consumer. From 360, media center pc's and extenders, plays for sure mp3 players, to i.e. 7 beta. I really think MS is ahead of the curve in terms of reaching the consumer through alternative means (podcasts, blogs). I do appreciate it. And again, if the zune live service has a digital locker to centrally store your music and if it's anything like xbox live in terms of the friends functionality, I might buy more than one.
I wouldn't call you a fanboy either, SU :) Right now I'm a little stuck b/c I can't tell you about Zune software. Stuff is still getting locked down and I would hate to tell you info that's gonna change. I promise to tell you more when it's final.
Got to say i just read something that HURTs big time.. Apparently they are saying now that the Zune Store thats supposedly built into the device, will not allow you to buy music or dl music without directly connecting it to a PC ... WTF thats the whole point, to get people that arent computer savy to use the darn device! and so that i can grab and dl music via subscription or per song, while on the road or on vacation... WHY OH WHY is microsoft killing me on this... if its true that the wifi is kinda a waste and you have to be directly connected to a pc to purchase music thats just INSANE. And a suggestion for zune i wished along time ago but know for a fact it will never see the time of day... BLuetooth, i mean how cool would a a2dp headset be with zune... wont happen but worth mentioning :(
zune sucks long live da ipod
zune sucks long live da ipod
Omg.. not only the name "zune" but also the design of it S.U.C.K.S ! I mean come on, it's like the new adds from apple comparing PC to a Mac, microsoft is not gonna make a "cool" or "hip" mp3 player soon. Could you say : "man i bought myself a Zuuuune !!" haha, that sounds so weird. And the logo design seems to come directly from the 70's science fiction B series.. Anyway, there'll never be a day when ill buy a microsoft product, it's like giving money to a guy to already stole you. Buy Apple, get rid of pc, throw away windows crap, u'll get a better life !
This is pathetic. These days I often feel more pity and embarassment for Microsoft than anything else. They really don't get it. I don't know what's worse, Microsoft's constant, rampant, pitiful methodology of brainless copy-catting, or the boobs somehow duped into paying for any of this Grade-A crap. Poor bastards.
Brown??? Are they STUPID??? Don't they get how many comparisons this will make? e.g.: Looks like a turd, smells like a turd, plays like a turd. e.g.: Zune circles the bowl. e.g.: I just dumped a Zune in the toilet. e.g.: My zunehole is itchy. If you're a guy and you want to introduce yourself to a girl with some wireless exchange, are you going to whip out a turd to impress her? I mean, come on. The Brown Zune is what bad children will get for Christmas.
The ipod has a great "cool" design, the MS Zune looks like a big, stupid, plastic trash "break for sure" player.

Talk about an 8 track player with a screen! Prediction: Zune flops, less than 300,000 players sold in the USA, Apple comes out with it's true video ipod-which makes the zune look like a brain damaged cousin and owns the video download market, MS will drop the Zune in 16 months leaving the dopes who bought them with even dumber looks on their faces.

You read it here.

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