Found Footage: Zune upstaged by a Shuffle

That was upstaging at it's best... ha ha ha

This is funny as hell, but there's a serious point to be made here that validates Apple's decision-making process when it comes to product features. Apple generally tries not to release features that are half-baked or don't work really, really well (there are exceptions of course...ahem...mail...ahem).

The Zune's ability to share songs, even for only 3 times, trumps Apple's inability to share anything wirelessly. But since the Zune feature is half-assed, people kvetch about it.

Much better NOT to include half-baked features until they're ready for prime time.

Finally - realistically - how many people will REALLY want to wirelessly beam music to other Zune users. Even assuming there ARE other Zune users in your area code? Five percent? Ten? I can't imagine more than that. And to serve that tiny sliver of your user base, you release a half-assed, battery-depleting, size-increasing set of hardware that gets you nothing but bad press and confused dazes?

Apple makes better design decisions.

lol.. seems like all three of them already own ipods for all we know..

Enough said. I'm sure iPods would feature wireless technology if it was appropriate - transfer speed, like for like compatibilty, DRM, battery consumption etc. do not put forward a good argument for wireless music players. Hence, the designers at Apple must've put this on the backburner ages ago.

And you'd think with the apparently pro-Apple Soledad (hottie) and Sorkin, CNN would use a Quicktime-compatible video format on their website...

Treated! By a shuffle... on CNN, no less.

Ohhh, this is funny. I love it. Thanks for sharing this!

Wow, you can't buy publicity like this...

1.) The attractive Soledad is all about the Apple product

2.) Miles openly criticizes the MS design in a colloquial way

3.) The one new feature he points out, Wifi, is discredited by the anchors asking for it to do all of thi things MS has crippled by offering only Z to Z sharing

Love it!

Oh, all those people that bought PlaysForSure music will now have music that doesn't play.

I've read that this sharing thing permits the other person to listen to the song 3 times or keep for 3 days, whichever comes first. I've also read that half the songs in the Zunes store won't allow sharing at all. Kind of makes the sharing thing half-assed if you ask me.

Finally, there IS one thing I actually like about the Zune, and that's the screen. Rumor sites had been talking about a larger screen iPod for some time, and mock-ups did show a smaller click wheel. It could also be that Apple was just waiting for the Zune to be introduced so they could trounce it in its infancy with a brand new touch-screen iPod, making use of the entire front surface. Could you just visualize the response to that? Steve's no dummy. I'm sure he anticipated this Zune (at one time called the Argo) way in advance and has been preparing his coup d'resistance for just the right moment.

I love the comment about MS getting good designers and that it is, indeed, clunky. Too bad they didn't have a brown one so they could really make fun of how idiotic MS's design choices are.