BREAKING NEWS: Zune Discontinued…
I just came in and turned on the TV and was simply surprised by what was on the news. Microsoft have stated that the Zune brand will be discontinued…?!
I have yet to find further information on this on the web as of, since the news itself was a rather “breaking news” too. But according to the report, Microsoft have decided to abandon the brand Zune and have decided to change its media player path so that it’ll be integrated with something mobile; something that will be able to compete against the iPhone. The report has suggested that possibly a this new phone to compete with the upcoming Apple iPhone will not have much to do with the Zune. According to a Microsoft employee, the Zune was simply a way for Microsoft to test the media player water before going in to the media player plus mobile phone market. There has also been reports that the Wi-Fi in this new gadget, unlike the rather useless Wi-Fi from the abandoned Zune project, will instead offer brand new capabilities. While nothing has been confirmed, but it has been said that talks such as wireless syncing with a computer and purchasing games via a Wi-Fi hotspot rather than using the phone browser has been brought up.
Microsoft abandoning the Zune project as a whole… I personally feel pretty betrayed about all this. What was all the talk about firmware updates? What happened to Zune in the future with better Wi-Fi? What happened to all that social? Why did Microsoft dump the whole project which they’ve spent quite a sum of money on already? Why not just release the 2nd generation of the Zune if they feel that the market share isn’t as high as they expected?
More to follow as I find more news on it. I wonder what will happen to the Marketplace and all the Points I’ve already spent on it…
Gyrros said,
April Fools I guess? 😉 Good one there ioDi!
poxtomod said,
The scary thing about this post is it could be true and probably is true! And Iam not that gullible and I realize its april 1st too. Heres a short list as to why…
-no new added features, fixes dont count in firm. 1.3, could be an indicator for lack of resources and programmers at work
-very little from MS corporate or otherwise in tn the news, lack of market share talk of sales, often aided by peoples disdain for anything non-apple
-constant reports of shops “dumping” the zune at discount prices, or simply abandoning the products all together, I looked at Meigers but could not even find any accessories
-no other country has seen the zune officially released, not even Canada
– worst of all is the constant support of a 2nd version to be released and all the current owners are overjoyed at this…. I dont understand why the community is like this as the zune has the technical ability to offer so much extra in extra features already
I think the reality is clear in that the zune is a failure as an mp3 platform due to consumer interest. Its time we realized that we will see very little from MS in the way of added features or ability, a shame really. The zune player is great from a user perspective, yet not from a retailer one or of MS themselves.
Escape said,
Not very funny! 😛
Cheetah said,
I agree with poxtomod on what he said. From what Microsoft seems to be doing as of, there seems to be no effort whatsoever being shown towards the Zune. Already there\’s talks of the version 2 when the current version still has so much room for improvement and that it can substantially become better if MS only put a bit more time and effort into it!
pinksage said,
haha, oh mens! 😉
Zune Master - the great paperweight rock said,
I just love the Billies the Ballmers et al, they produce FANTASTICO products, such as “plug and pray”, Active-X, out of this world IIS exception handling, and the list is too long,
So here, I, like Ballmer, have 4 words for U, “I love This Company”, it keeps my sense of humor alive – “the repeat of Pinky and the Brain” cartoons, they are going to do tomorrow the same thing they do today, – work at taking over the world.
“Written in a Mac-Mini 2009 with 4 GB of RAM, intel 64-duo at 2 Ghz, OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) with a connected iPhone 3GS syncing apps/music/video w/ iTunes all in 64 bit mode in the background”