New Music Friday: Twenty-Ninth Edition

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Kitron — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:30:31 GMT

I played with the Iphone and it is amazing. I can't see how anyone can compete with that kind of design. Microsoft needs to change gears here and start pumping out the cool. By this time we should've had some devices that make use of technologies like WPF/Silverlight but it hasn't happend.

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Daveworld — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:54:10 GMT

Wow, the iPhone reportedly sold half a million over the weekend (some reporting up to 700,000), and may even be the most successful product launch in history. Maybe this will light some fire under the Zune team's ARS.

Just like Apple's iPhone, the Zune was MS first foray into the DAP (Hardware) market, but it's taken 6 Months to hit 1 million. Apple will hit one million in a few days. What's wrong with this picture?

Many are losing patients.

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Tom — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:11:23 GMT

Wow, I just went to take a dip at the Apple Koolaid store in SoHo and I used an iPhone.

Agreed, this thing EXCEEDS innovation and expecation. When I was browsing the web, I was like "wow". I also loved the iPod built in. It was beautiful. You could tell that Apple engineers put a lot of effort and love into making such a great device.

I also took a look at my upcoming Mac purchase ;)

Jesus guys, no one makes better products than Apple. NO ONE. NO ONE I TELL YOU!!!

@ Mark

Seriously, lol, those phones aren't as great as the iPhone simply because all the technology that's on the prada and HTC doesn't fit together with their OS.

The simplicity and innovations currently on the iPhone mark a huge spotlight for upcoming Apple products.

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:36:41 GMT

Cesar, is anyone from Zune team going to E3 ?

I figure you guys would be keeping tabs with what is going on in the portable/mobile gaming space.

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zuneless — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:48:06 GMT

Mark said:

actually lots of stuff come close and actually exceed the iphone. Look at the LG prada, the HTC Touch, and the up and coming Meizu M8. All great phones are at least equal if not better than the iphone but with the exception of the prada, cost less.

The "Meizu M8" is the biggest piece of vaporware in years. The thing doesn't even exist. It's just a bunch of pretty pictures and completely unrealistic specs.

In any case, until someone can tell me they've used all of these devices, comparisons are pure speculation.

All I know is, there wasn't a line to buy either the LG Prada or the HTC Touch the day they came out.

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:19:02 GMT

Mark, there was some discussion about Zunesleeves.com on Zunerama. It was reported to be transferred to a Microsoft name server. However WHOIS indicates its registered to DreamHost Web Hosting (dreamhost.com). Sounds like a scam.

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Mark — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:39:02 GMT

Cesar: sorry for posting so much but any comment on this?

http://www.zunesleeves.com

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Mark — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:32:31 GMT

@Matt: Microsoft doesn't need to copy the iphone, they could just go to the source and copy the prada like apple did :)

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Nathan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:27:18 GMT

Mark,

Everyone's ranting and complaining is due to a far longer problem that has been around for a lot longer than just the past month's constant coverage of the iPhone. There has never been a significant feature announcement or even preview concerning the Zune on this site or any other except when others have hacked it to do what they want and even then it was on zunerama and not done by Microsoft.

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Matt — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:21:37 GMT

John Smith: Did you hear about the iPhone?

Bill Gates: Yes, I want you to get as much as you can and bring them over here for my next copy invention

John Smith: Sure thing

Bill Gates: Make sure to post a blog about how we're going to use it for research development.

John Smith: Yes sir

*John Smith hands Gates a shiny new iPhone*

Bill Gates: Hey John Smith, I like this idea. Can you go over and put this masterpiece device to our Xerox right in the Corner.

John Smith: Gates, isn't that copy?

Bill Gates: Oh we're great at that. We're going to call it the zPhone

*evil laugh* muhahahahahahaha, Apple shall fail!!

John Smith: Gates, you're a loser. I'm going to go over to Apple's department and be the next Scoble.

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Mark — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:05:59 GMT

In response to every1 ranting, I think I have a pretty good explaination (although it's been said before and probably wont put any of you at ease) The iphone just came out. If you paid attention to engadget at all in recent months, it's been a non-stop iphone fest. Any news by the zune team, no matter how large, would be completely overshadowed by the iphone hype. Would it have been nice for microsoft to challenge the iphones hype? probably, but it would have lost. Sometimes you just need to choose your battles and I think that's exactly what the zune team did. (At least I really, really hope so. (because that would theoretically mean we get some big news very soon)).

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:12:56 GMT

AI, we just don't know anything about 1.5 or other future releases. The Zune team has been especially quiet these past two weeks. Not sure, but that may be attributed all the iPhone hype and not wanting this to steel their thunder.

Its great to see the competition heat up. If the iPhone is any indication, v2 Zune hardware should be really exciting stuff. And with Apple positioned in the portable market (iPod), Living Room (AppleTV), mobile narket (iPhone) and internet (Safari)..I think Microsoft will be eager to accelerate their connected entertainment vision.

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Nathan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:56:48 GMT

Agreed with Dan on this one. I'd like to see some kind of news or update on anything.

http://zunerama.com/forum/index.php?topic=4646.0

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cpare — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:01:35 GMT

Cesar

Could you please take some time and explain the reason there is no SDK for the Zune? Understanding the challenges might help set the expectation...

There are lots of easy requests out there, and an SDK would allow the community to knock them out and let you guys focus on the big stuff.

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Eddie — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:41:39 GMT

Yeah I'm sorry to admit it Cesar but I have to agree with Dan and the rant itself. =/