Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Dan D — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:35:04 GMT

but there is one thing i dont get. how come we havent heard anything about us complaining. alot of fellow zuners complain our device needs more but all we get is a we hear you. and even still we only get a we hear you every couple months. maybe the zune team thinks we are only a small fraction of consumers wanting more. i really hope they realize we arent a small group of people that are getting fed up with the secrecy. all i want is month. or even a year.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Dan D — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:33:06 GMT

rohit. i agree with your statements except the last one. "this year is about building in some solid capabilites" dude we havent even seen any new capabilities except the very underprivlidged 3day shareing. im starting to think we arent going to hear anynews anytime soon. by the time we hear news ill have a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering haha

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Rohit — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:18:01 GMT

John in S.Florida

I mentioned Halo 3 because if Zune is announced right between Halo 3 hype..its message will get lost. But then again it will all depend on if the Zune is ready to go mainstream. Zune 1 was specifically targeted toward certain audience. I am not sure Zune 2 is going to be ready for mainstream. Zune 3 maybe. This year is about building in some solid capabilities and next year is when fun will start.

But I am only guessing.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Kyle — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:59:22 GMT

I wasn't trolling. If you still have a copy of what I wrote please show it to people at microsoft. Thats all I wanted to acomplish by posting that here.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

dsharp75 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:59:11 GMT

What's up fellow Zuners! Hey, thanks for so many of you guys/girls chiming in on my condensed plea/statement to this blog. It not only validates my thoughts, but it's ultra cool that I'm not alone in the "suspense is killing me" feeling and also not in bashing the product, but antsy about the future. Rohit's right - since I don't play xbox (I know blashemy - not enough time right now, sorry). Once the Halo 3 launch/release is over next week we'll hopefully get out announcement. Hmmm, the 10/16 is 4 weeks before the original launch date last year as someone else pointed out - so announcement 10/16 - product 11/13? Hmmmmm...

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

John in S.Florida — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:47:24 GMT

Rohit, maybe so but that would be highly disappointing because they have an opportunity to take "center stage" at the DigitalLife event in New York city next week. Zune needs to have real red carpet treatment and not some canned press release and coverage on Zuneinsider and/or on10.net. They don't have to look to Apple on how to do an announcement right, just model the XBox 360.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Rohit — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:29:41 GMT

Guys no date or anythinf is going to come till Halo 3 launch is over with. They will follow up the Zune right after that. I would guess a week after Halo 3.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Dan D — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:31:38 GMT

yea. dsharp75 that was a good comment. i know earlier i said i would jump ship but i was just blowing off steam because im really upset about getting absolutly nothing for updates. my zune barely works as its supposed to. i mean yea it does the basic functions but i think early adopters like myself created false hope of great features even basic features that should have came months ago like more codec support so im not converting all night. well hopefully we get a date even if its just a year id be happy haha.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

mongchacha — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:56:24 GMT

dSharp75...i couldn't have said it better.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Snipes — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:53:46 GMT

Cesar,

I hope you make the "army jeep green" Zune that rumors say. But I have to ask, will it match the special edition green XBOX? That's what I really want. I read in a seattle newspaper that would be the "jeep" color. Is it true?

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

John in S.Florida — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:50:22 GMT

dSharp, the good news is that current Zune inventory is being reduced with deals like that from Woot. You Zune employees like Bill Wittress and David Caulton who have come out of hiberation and blogged for the first time in months. Its obviously pointing to an imminent announcement. Probably next week.

But I understand your frustration. Zune has had a frustrating early life. We've been loyal customers, we've given Microsoft space and benefit of the doubt...so I understand why many are on the edge of slamming them now. Microsoft needs to do the right thing and I'm sure they will.

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Ricardo Dawkins — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:16:20 GMT

@timedriter

drift in time, dude...and bring the firmware from the future... ;)

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

dSharp75 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:42:55 GMT

Hi Cesar. I've responded before and I'm aware of MS's no comment policy. I'm an early adopter of the Zune and I take it nearly everywhere I go. Scouring the internet constantly here's what real Zune fans know: We like our Zunes, we really don't care about the "Draco", that's just there for nano competition, sansa (etc) and recreational users; our Zunes work just fine, but were "crippled" due to the limitations of the modified gigabeat hardware and possible legal ramifications in the audio-video aspect (i.e. "pod"casts, other a/v codecs);firmware has been far stretched and very disappointing. Here's what we know about Zune 2. Nothing;The obviously mocked up images are hopefully not the real thing;in fact the only safe thing to assume item is that no features will be removed and there will be an 80 gb version. Secrecy to keep competition at bay aside, we loyal Zuners are either salivating helplessly or planning to jump ship (not me). Anyway, I'd like to say that this is a very crucial moment for the Zune. With loyal members wavering, competition product and (finally) pricing lowering and no news, no announcements, no official statements, hell, not even a date - if Zune 2 doesn't kick all kinds of butt, you may keep going because of pride or investments, but the "me too" image will stick and the Zune will pretty much be the Burger King to the McDonalds standard. As a Zuner, I understand the need to not comment, keeping all competition completely in the dark. I think what we really want is an official date (announcement and launch) so we can relax, breathe easy and wait to justify our love on that date. Now, I'd like to go into the features, but I think people have sounded off enough about more stuff than even my list has AND given some articles I read a long time ago, you guys probably already programmed them in but again, hush, hush. Now, after saying all this, I don't expect you to comment, even on your own blog - so how about a "I hear you", "Zuners will rule", or even better both and a date!

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

timedriter — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:25:43 GMT

@$%# the Zune 2.

Where's the Firmware <strike>leaks</strike> Info.

Cavan

re: Kanye, Chemical Brothers - Zune Exclusives this Week

Ricardo Dawkins — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:15:48 GMT

A small giveaway for a set of V-Moda Vibes for anyone who buys a White Zune on woot!

http://zunerama.com/forum/index.php?topic=5721.0