Microsoft continues to quietly update their Zune and I think people are starting to notice the significant difference since they launched it. Those who use Zune now love it, at least those that I speak with.
Having a Zune with Zune marketplace is really cool - you can download almost any album - even foreign ones. You pay a small monthly fee and you can listen to and download as much music as you want.
One Zune Pass allows you to hook up to 3 Zunes and 3 computers. It's a great deal, but they just introduced something new to sweeten the pot! You get 10 FREE SONGS on top of your monthly membership - which are yours to keep forever. That means for $15 a month you can listen to and download as much music as you want plus you get 10 additional songs for your permanent collection even if you decide to kill your membership with Zune.
The Zune marketplace is well laid out, and as far as music is concerned the Zune marketplace is much more interactive and certainly more interesting than the Itunes store. The social networking portion of the Zune site is getting better, it's becoming universal with the Microsoft Live services.
Seriously, if you love music give the Zune a chance. If Microsoft can continue to stay on track with this and support the Zune team it could very well eat into Apple's music stronghold.
By the way, I am *still* using the old school 30 gigabyte Zune and the software is universal across all platforms. The new one looks much nicer, I'd like to pick up an 80 gigabyte (or larger?) as soon as possible.
Now if someone could design a "Zune App" for the Iphone you might get rich quick.
2 blogger comments:
I agree. The best thing MS has done is upgrade the software and firmware for free.
I think I shall stick with an iPod.
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