going to click the link in the story, but it goes to electronista. Time to use Google!!

So Apple will make money off the 10 zune units sold worldwide. LOLOLLLLL

I love it when Microshit gets it up the a**.

This linking to your other site to gain traffic is ridiculous. At least state that it's going to the other site instead of just linking to it.

I remember thinking when I first saw the Zune - "I can't believe they copied the original iPod's casing too!" One difference being that Apple chose to keep their casing clean and clear colored, rather than mucking it up with some murky looking green or blue color.

Guys can you proofread these? The "latter company won..."? Which company?

And in the other top story it says "Justing"

Maybe Apple will show better taste when combining colours. Brown and green? Yecch!

Yeah, it implies Microsoft, but the latter company in question is Creative, which isn't mentioned until later in the article.

Oh, and I like the phrase "that Creative was lucky to have filed for the patent first." Lucky? In what sense? Lucky they came up with the idea before apple, and filed a patent before apple did? You got to love how Jobs tries to make it sound like Creative just fell into the patent. And if it were Apple who got the patent, I'm sure it would be expounded upon about their rich design history, not that they were "lucky" to get it first.

I think on this one you're not really fair or honest. This particular patent was so obvious because it has been used for many years in many other products by many companies, maybe even before Creative was founded and anyway before any MP3 player was invented. Except that the new patent was granted for use on a portable device. Big deal, indeed! Maybe when the time for personal spaceships come, someone will have been granted a patent for the use of a wheel to manoeuvre them... I think that the patents system is out of control nowadays and it may not be long before it become obvious that it achieves the opposite of what it was supposed to do...

This particular patent was so obvious because it has been used for many years in many other products by many companies, maybe even before Creative was founded and anyway before any MP3 player was invented.

It sounds almost like the 'revolutionary' easy to use interface that people crowed about the ipod wasn't that revolutionary, let alone an apple invention.

or did the MacNN writer skip around abit in the middle ?