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December 31, 2008

30GB Zune apocalypse arrives as devices enter digital coma

All 30Gb Zunes go kaput simultaneously. The only reason these devices care what day it is? The secure clock used by their DRM.

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November 14, 2006

CNN.com Video: Microsoft's Zune released

Ouch. I’m not sure Microsoft will be happy that their launch-day feature on CNN features incredulent hosts (“Who do they think is going to buy this?”), one of whom ends the segment raving about her new teeny iPod Shuffle.

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Installing the Zune... sucked - Engadget

Wow. Microsoft make it clear that, however rushed, buggy and miserably unready the Zune software may be, the user experience design was always half-assed.

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November 13, 2006

Apple Matters | Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme

Microsoft’s “you must buy points in $5 increments” makes sense if you consider credit-card transaction costs (I’m sure Apple loses money if you only buy one 99 cent song at a time — that’s why they batch up your transactions), but the user experience of “1.25 cents per point” is ridiculous, and probably going to bite MS.

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November 2, 2006

zune.com

Are you kidding me?! Microsoft didn’t register zune.com before announcing their MP3 player?! Wonder how that will work out for them.

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September 14, 2006

CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Zune is Here

“You can actually send a file to another Zune user, but it will only be playable three times or stored for three days, whichever comes first.” Well, that’s worth the battery drain of 802.11 networking.

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July 25, 2006

Daring Fireball: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft's 'Zune'

John Gruber’s Magic 8 Ball does its work on Zune.

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July 21, 2006

Coming Zune

Microsoft finally confess to the existence of their “Zune” player. Nothing much announced yet; just a teaser site with a man stroking a bunny.

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.