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Jan 16, 08 - 06:29 pm Comment from: Crabapple

I don't!!!

They still haven't even introduced the zune in Canada. There's outcry for the iphone here, but nobody's even heard of the zune.

Yeah, apparently some guy named Robbie Bach owns one. :D

Jan 16, 08 - 06:34 pm Comment from: Crabapple

All good things come to an end.

Good bye yawll!!!

Jan 16, 08 - 06:36 pm Comment from: Angelus520

When I actually sat and thought about it I thought I saw one at the gym the other day. Then I remembered it was just the commercial on the TV. So, nope, never seen one in the wild.

LMAO! Steve Jobs is that dude.

I wish I had someone like him to smack me in the face with reality all my life. Would've saved a lot of time.

Jan 16, 08 - 06:37 pm Comment from: Jubei

Zune? I heard Toshiba makes them and MS passes them on as their own creation for competing with the iPod. You would think a company with hundreds of programmers and engineers who has access to billions of guaranteed revenue dollars to spend cannot come up with their own design for a player. Oh way, they introduced new colors. I heard RED is the big one yesterday. Laughable.

WTF is this new world order crap? I have had enough of the NWO shit from Bush and Co.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Suck it, Microsoft!

Great line

"Was he inebriated?"

That's hilarious

what´s a zune?lol,no i´ve never see ``big inovations`` on zunes and i´ve never see one in plastic.

Jan 16, 08 - 06:46 pm Comment from: ken1w

He's right. I can't even remember seeing one out in the real world, except on the sales display at CompUSA. Those actual owners must be hiding them...

I've seen the Zune on sale in Canada in multiple locations for a long time now.

Jan 16, 08 - 06:52 pm Comment from: Ampar

Asked Jobs: 'Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?'"


BURN ! ! ! LMFAO ! ! !

Jan 16, 08 - 06:53 pm Comment from: NeonRed

I think i glimpsed a Zune once. Tacoma, i seem to remember. Brief sight, then—it was gone into the bustle of the mall. Noted it in my journal, indexed after my Bigfoot sighting. It seems that sightings should be push pinned on google earth--so rare-- the sighter should get recognition.

Jan 16, 08 - 06:54 pm Comment from: January 24, 1984

Do my share of airplane hopping. Ride coach.

Never seen one.

Jan 16, 08 - 06:55 pm Comment from: Bogus Jimmy

Neither the Zune or iPhone are available here in Australia.

I've seen plenty of iPhones around, people talk about them and want one.

I've never seen a Zune and have never heard anyone talk about ut, except to say how bad it is.

DBL ... I live in Ontario ... never have seen a Zune ... just checked both Future Shop and WalMart Canada websites ... nothing shows up when Zune is searched for ...

Jan 16, 08 - 06:55 pm Comment from: Ferf Muckmeyer

My brother-in-law, who is a moron, owns a Zune. He will not "succumb" to the status quo, so he chose to buy inferior crap that was defecated out of Steve Ballmer's ass. My brother-in-law also LIKES Vista, despite the fact that it's worst pile of feces ever unleashed to the computing public. He STILL questions me why I would buy a Mac, stating "you're in the IT business - you should know better!" That's right - I DO know better. I'm a Mac user. So I do know someone who owns a Zune - a fscking idiot at that.

I know someone who owns one. He's the obese, sweaty CEO of some software company from Redmond, I can't recall the name. I think his nickname is "Squirt".

Zune Tang doesn't even own one, trust me.

Jan 16, 08 - 07:07 pm Comment from: Jubei

I heard somewhere that that Zune is the new word for Poop or Number 2 or something like that.

I'm sure life in America is great at the moment with all these new services from Apple. But the rest of the world can only hear news about it and wonder, when will it happen in my country. Still, nice to know it is coming. Just like iTunesMS is now pretty much world wide. A lot of us are waiting for the iPhone (i know it's coming) but how would downloading/renting/buying American TV or movies work in other countries. There would have to be some sort of delay wouldn't there? But that would entice people to just go out and dload it someewhere else for free.

Jan 16, 08 - 07:13 pm Comment from: LorD1776

I heard that one was supposedly sighted over Roswell, New Mexico. But I don't believe in that stuff.

Can somebody explain to me in plain english how to STOP those pop up Boy meets Girl silly spam/popup/facebookish crap without completely disabling java and kinda breaking my browser.

Who do i email thier link to so i can tell 'em to FU.....OFF!!!

Jan 16, 08 - 07:16 pm Comment from: DRM sucks

I know one person that owns a Zune. She got a 30 GB one (Brown, naturally) on sale for something like $99.

Before the box arrived, she referred to it "some mp3 player". That tells you something about the branding.

You guys are looking in the wrong places for Zunes. Try the local home. Those poor drooling bastards wearing football helmets on the short bus might have one. As usual, your best bet is to look at the bottom of the local public shitter.

Any man who calls himself Robbie deserves to be in charge of the zune at Micro$oft.
MS has threatened to put it on sale in Canada - the problem remains that "zune" is an en francais slang expression for male or female genitalia. Micro$oft has or should have know this for the past 2 years. They can expect to have their "zune" turned back at the border or to have the name covered up - maybe they could come up with something original - like - like - toshiba.
3-4 years ago GM had a similar problem with the name for one of its Buicks (laCrosse, if memory serves., which was slang for masturbation. GM promptly changed the name to something else before the car shipped into the Canadian market- a smart move by a responsible corporation.
Given Robbie and Balmey continue to refer to the zune's ability to "squirt" one can only imagine the reaction of parents and police when Robbie demos the pink zune (vagina) to a bunch of kids and rattles on about it squirting.
Let the complaints begin - heads up Best Buy and Future Shop because the citizens will be coming after you for displaying this offensive crap.

http://www.geocities.com/thefeza/macbookair.jpg

for all of us that have to stare carry around out our fat pudgy counterparts.

look at you, youre so fat... u disgust me. why cant you be like macbook air? super thin and sexy? would it kill you to shed a few peripherals?!

Jan 16, 08 - 07:26 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

I have seen one. One that was owned by a 13 year old kid. You know, at 13 your brain has not actually finished developing.
I had a chance to fiddle with it. It's not only ugly looking but the UI is abysmally atrocious.

Oh, almost forgot Ford - they really need to be associated with the zune product name in Canada - it will do wonders for its declining market share.
good boy Robbie!

Not anyone with a bit of sense anyway.

By the way, I thought MDN had done away with the Bakla Obama ads.

Jan 16, 08 - 07:34 pm Comment from: macdaddy

My brother in law is a huge Apple hater. His wife got him an 8g Zune for Christmas. Two days later I asked how he liked it. His Response? He wants to return it because you have to use Microsofts music player to use it.

This is the guy that hates Apple because of itunes and now he is stuck with a Zune that has to use Microcrap music player. Not to mention that there were only about 30 accessories available for the Zune instead of the 30,000 for the iPod. He hates iPods, but now I think he hates Zune more.

How ironic.

Jan 16, 08 - 07:49 pm Comment from: TowerTone

I asked the kid working at FYE if they sold many of the accessories for the Zune that were behind the counter. He had that "hell, no" look in his eyes, but naturally he said "a few".

Then he said the other kid working there had one (which explained his dilemma) and that kid walked up and showed it to me.

He explained that he didn't want to be locked in to iTunes with songs that could only be played on an iPod.

We both looked at him and said that he could burn them to CD.
Matter of fact, he didn't even know that you could rip songs from CDs into iTunes.

I swear he put the Zune back in his pants, turned around and walked off like he was gonna cry. Honestly, I felt bad. He probably worked all summer to by that POS. AND HE WASN'T EVEN LISTENING TO IT!!!

Jan 16, 08 - 07:51 pm Comment from: TowerTone

by? I meant "bi".
Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Jan 16, 08 - 08:02 pm Comment from: Cubert

Just the Zune that I saw in the stall at a public restroom recently.

Ballmer's Grandfather owns one! He said so!

"Asked Jobs: "Was he inebriated?"... "

Classic.... I literally LOLed.

Jan 16, 08 - 08:06 pm Comment from: DresdenSparrow

I love dicks who think they are "against the norm", or "establishment" or "won't buy into the status quo" so they get a Zune. Yeah I have a colleague like that too.

It's sort of like saying, "I like crap because everyone else likes good stuff, so I win", but you lose.

I own one, that's who.

Welcome to the Social.

Are all brothers-in-law stupid apple haters?

Jan 16, 08 - 08:09 pm Comment from: DizzyD

Why isn't this called the "AirBook"?

Jan 16, 08 - 08:10 pm Comment from: Jubei

Good one TowerTone. Poor kid, maybe he can make a bundle selling it at eBay. Lets see its worth about 10 bucks, shipping ground ups about 5 bucks. So he can make a big 5 bucks! Awesome. hehe

I'm kind of a mac newbie, could someone tell me why I can't get cnbc.com? It just gives me what looks like a mobile version of the website.

Does anyone out there know a Zune Tang?
Anyone...?

In November my girlfriend told me her dad might buy Zunes for her and her siblings. I bought her a eight gig Nano on Black Friday and told her dad about it. He still bought her brother and sister 80 gig Zunes for Christmas, and I gave the Nano I had been saving. After using both, he is now plaining on buying Nanos for himself and his wife.

Jan 16, 08 - 08:41 pm Comment from: ericdano

What happened to Zune Tang. Wait, he's probably trying to figure out how Apple made such a sexy new notebook computer. And how Apple could have sold more than 4 million iPhones. Or how Apple actually has WiFi in iPods that actually does something.

Remind me what the WiFi in a Zune does other than suck the battery life out of a Zune?

I think I know 2 or 3 people who own a Zune. But they all work for Microsoft, and I believe one or more of them got it for free. So that's not really saying anything. I once saw a guy on the bus with a Zune. Once. (I live in SF - possibly the most gadget-concentrated city in the world - and I take public transit every day, so I see a lot of people.)

Jan 16, 08 - 09:07 pm Comment from: Jubei

LOL... looks like the "zunescene" forum regulars panties are all in a bunch over SJ comment. I believe their entire massive user forum base, which is about 10 people are all having a fit. haha....

Jan 16, 08 - 09:11 pm Comment from: LorD1776

anti-creative cretin,

You never cease to amaze and baffle me.