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...Zune follows in the footsteps of the successful Xbox, but unlike the videogame business, where there are only a few companies capable of launching a platform at any given time, the Zune enters a field already littered with MP3 players. Nearly every MP3 player that's not an iPod can connect to a monthly subscription service: any new flash player from Samsung, iriver, SanDisk or Creative will synch with Napster, RealNetworks' Rhapsody, Yahoo's Y! Unlimited or MTV Urge. In fact, even Samsung's newest Cingular phone, appropriately dubbed the Sync, can do this...
...player, the Zune has some technical failings. Its built-in radio is too staticky, no match for the radios found in iriver and Samsung MP3 players. It can't record radio streams, and there isn't even a way to program station presets. And unlike those competing devices, it doesn't have a built-in voice recorder. Also, while I found most of the interface to be pleasant, I did run into some strange starting and stopping issues. For instance, say you're listening to a song and browsing through your music when you're suddenly interrupted by someone...
...know that the wireless connectivity will not sway me, but I'm not sure it won't be a selling point for younger people who are more often surrounded by crowds of peers. I just don't understand why Microsoft chose to launch a 30GB hard-drive-based player when the kids these days want cheaper, cuter flash players - not just the iPod nano but the SanDisk Sansa and many others. Today's hard drive business is all about video playback, and the Zune certainly offers that, but Apple's movie and TV store will keep them ahead of Zune...
...actually. Its kind of funny. Do you know who Edward Lee is? He said if I broke the record I could sign his Harvard-Yale ticket. People ask me pretty frequently to sign their tickets. That’s a fun part of all of this, of being a player. I am definitely going to miss that...
...readers who don’t even know these random men), he called while on the bus back to Boston to see if I could possibly be on-call to pick up his XXL tuxedo from Classic Tuxedo tonight—he’s going to a football player and cheerleader convention masquerading at the Harvard Club of Boston as some sort of consulting firm. “Yeah, of course—oh wait, not sure, I’m committed to a pre-Krokodiloes engagement.” Roommates are the darndest thing. And almost universally...