SXSW: Trip Recap

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Dee — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:00:44 GMT

I dont understand why the Zune team has to "rub elbows" with the music industry people anyway. If the product sucks and continues to do so nobody else is going to buy it and we the early adopters are going to continue to be stuck with a $250 paperweight after microsoft discontinues the thing.

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Jivemasta — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:53:20 GMT

Cesar, aren't you part of the music handling section of Zune? I know everybody is giving you guff for going to music related parties, but if your job is dealing with the music side of things, it would be reasonable to go to parties. Anyways, I doubt the programmers are out partying all the time(Maybe a lan party here and there), but I think you should clue us in on what you actually do at your job(maybe a "day in the life of" type post), chronicling a typical day of your job.

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Zuneless — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:30:10 GMT

Matt Luers, you win the "Funniest Thing I've Read All Day!" award!!! Congratulations.

It might be tragic, but it's still freakin' hilarious.

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Matt Luers — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:07:12 GMT

It's completely pathetic that the first thing I did this morning was check to see if the FW update was available. Before eating, showering, etc... It was like being a kid at Christmas.

Well, except that when I was little I wasn't wanting Santa to bring me a patch so that the toy I already bought would stop skipping. Back then I just wanted a Merlin.

Zune Santa comes down the chimney, kicks you square in the jewels, and walks out the back door with nary a word.

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Michael — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:04:08 GMT

All of you complainers are whiny. Geesh. Annoying as hell.

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Ricardo Dawkins — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:04:11 GMT

Terrible news for the ppl with the needed patch.

AS thisneedtostop and dee said....STOP GOING TO PARTIES ALREADY. PERIOD.

YOU AND ALL THE ZUNE TEAM CAN PARTY AFTER YOU GET 1 MILLION ZUNE SALES BEFORE 1 YEAR (if ever). since by the look of it, the zune team is barely capable in bringing somethig so basic to the market.

Man, We know you are on marketing but going after every party is getting ridiculous. Tell the programmers that you need some features to *MARKET it* and *NOW*. The 30GB Zune device is almost half year old and they haven't added nothing new to the so upgradeable and promising machine.

This is getting really out of hand.

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dead jim — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:03:33 GMT

i'm glad you appreciate the feedback. i just sincerely want the zune to succeed. i like the device. i'm concerned that the influentials in the industry have already decided that the zune is a miss, and now the early adopters are beginning to feel that they're getting screwed. you may not need both those groups for success down the line, but it seems like you are going to need at least one of them if the any significant success is to come in any reasonable amount of time.

i get that parties are your job, but, in all seriousness, i think your time would have been better spent on the phone with whoever makes decisions about release dates, features, etc than hanging out at sxsw. while i get how important it is to rub elbows with individuals in the music industry at such an important event, none of that will make any difference if everyone who bought the zune feels so abandoned that they move on and buy ipods out of spite. if you've been on the boards, i'm sure you know that that is exactly what people are beginning to do. where they were threatening, now they are actually following through. and that's just the people who bother to tell us what they're doing. i'm doing my part trying to convince others that the zune offers many benefits and should be the device of choice, and i don't even get paid. i just want to ensure that the people who do get paid care more about this than i do.

good luck.

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met — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:58:50 GMT

Why do I get the distinct feeling that they started working on this after that thread? :)

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John in S.Florida — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:55:00 GMT

timedrifter: "when the FW update is out, there had better be some friken easter eggs in there"

Completely agree, we need a true Spring Update that can bring abit of enthusiasm back to Zune. I holding some hope that Cesar revealed only a portion of what will actually be in the update.

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Eric — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:54:22 GMT

High fives are still cool..I don't know what you're talking about.

Everyone here needs to chill out a bit.

The new modest mouse album came out today, go get that.

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met — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:04:18 GMT

Editing that old post yesterday was totally uncool :( I thought MS had changed.

and just because I'm in a foul mood: Why do you try so hard to be cool?

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timedrifter — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:37:16 GMT

Being on the "Front Line" It is his job to take the Flax from us. It is not his job to step aside and point at the dev's.

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inomine — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:10:24 GMT

:shrug

If he got the call then he should tell us about it, rather than editting out any mention of the previous date. And he only mentioned it in some comments on an unrelated post and on a post that dropped off the front page, that's pretty lame.

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timedrifter — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:40:39 GMT

Just to back Cezar up here. Odds are, yesterday afternoon he got a call from the Dev's. "Cezar, you know that update we told you would be ready by the 20th? Yah were not done yet". Keep in mind guys, Cezar is Marketing. His job is to party.

All that said

This is really ticking me off, and when the FW update is out, there had better be some friken easter eggs in there

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John — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:51:14 GMT

Stop partying and get to work!!! Man, the iPod seems more attractive day by day!