Despite Microsoft ’s instruction that it will take five years before the Zune platform is successful , we call back it has a slam of get there in less . Why ? Here are five reasons .
•The Zune has a large screen . The 3 - in silver screen is 50 % larger than the 5 G iPod ’s . One of the principal complaints iPod users have is that the cover is just too small to watch video recording on . Even though iTunes now has picture as well as TV shows and music videos , the the reason people are dying for the widescreen iPod is because they do n’t like watch it on the current one . Although Microsoft wo n’t have a picture store at launch , the fact that you may most belike adulterate up Media Center recordings and other videos onto the participant will make it a succeeder for telecasting . And when the picture shop come , it ’ll be a double winner .
•The Zune has community . The WiFi and DJ feature article will let you share music with other Zune users , meaning there ’s more ground for you to use the Zune if your friend Steve has one as well . MySpace , Xbox Live , and Digg are three example of how well community of interests works to make good engineering great .
•The Zune has Microsoft . Do n’t doubt the financial backing of the large software maker . They brought the Xbox up from nothing to eat up a large lump of what was previously Sony and Nintendo ’s territory . The Xbox 360 is just about the only “ nerveless ” product associated with Microsoft right now , thanks to James Allard and his hip - squad . Can they do the same for the Zune ? emphatically .
•The Zune has the anti - iPod crowd . If you learn through the excitement of the Apple Showtime upshot yesterday , you ’ll notice that the iPod did n’t really get any significant update . Brighter screen and longer battery life-time ? New physical structure for the iPod Nano and computer memory gibbousness ? Not much in the means of features there — if you ’re not weigh the game . Not to mention that since everyone and their 2nd cousin has an iPod , which makes it no longer unique . The Zune could be the new iPod , if marketed right — which it will be ( see # 3 ) .
•The Zune has a future . To get the Zune out in fourth dimension for Christmas ’ 06 , Microsoft had topartner with Toshibaand use their Gigabeat conception as a bootstrap . The Gigabeat is a prettywell received player , but the next propagation Zune will be even better . Why ? Because Microsoft is uprise that one entirely in - sign . As we see from just about every product they ’ve put out , the second or third iteration is when they get things right . By half - skipping over the sore first - gen by using Toshiba , Microsoft may just shortcut their way into a bully player .
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ultimately , it all relies on how Microsoft is run to measure success . Is the Zune going to be successful if it replaces the iPod as the most sold medicine player ? Or just if it turn a healthy profit for Microsoft , despite only being second or third blank space ?
Oh , and there ’s an official Microsoft Zune announcement make out tomorrow . We ’ll countenance you know if they get things off to a great commencement , or shoot themselves in the foot right out of the gate .
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