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03/13/2008, 12:30pm, EDT
Thursday, March 13thfrom: www.electronista.com
Microsoft plans mobile Zune store, third-gen player
Microsoft is planning to launch a mobile Zune portal sometime in 2009, according to the French newspaper Les Echos. The site would extend the reach of the company's iTunes rival, the Zune Marketplace, and allow users to download games and music directly to various platforms, including computers, Windows Mobile devices and for the first time, Zune players themselves. While Zunes have always come equipped with a Wi-Fi module, they have never had Internet access, a prominent feature on Apple's competing iPod touch.
The availability of Windows Mobile access is said to be tied to the release of Windows Mobile 7, a follow-up to the yet-unreleased Windows Mobile 6.1. In the same year, Microsoft is expected to release its third generation of Zune players, still wrapped in secrecy. Compatibility with a Zune Marketplace, however, may suggest web-browsing ability. [via Generation NT]
Filed under: iPod, industry, gadgets
Other story tags: Microsoft, iTunes, music, Windows Mobile, iPod touch, Zune, media players
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retarded.
(yes, I can do the math in my head but it's still stupid because most people are put off by this garbage)
they're committed to games (closing in on 6.5 billion in losses)
they're committed to "search" (they'll buy Yahoo since they can't make headway on their own).
they're committed to buying their way into whatever someone else does first and better.
it's simply the MS way!
But I hear in 2011 they are planning some great features.
This way, as a consumer, you're not bothered by little details like worrying about price increases, since the price is always the same (79 points)! It's pure genius!
What will make this even better is what will come with Zune Marketplace 2.0! By then, the cost of a point will differ depending on where you are. So 79 points in "new music" may cost more pennies then 79 points in "crap music from Bill's Zune!" area. This way, they can give the labels the flexible pricing they've wanted, but give the consumer the 'one price for everything' model!!
Now, the other side is how they're helping our kids. By not following the lame Apple way of pricing music using standard currency, MS is helping kids improve their mathematics abilities by teaching them fractions, multiplication, and division.
They sure are! Ones that iPods have or will have long since had. They just have to wait for Apple to innovate a few more of them so they can figure out what to attempt to copy.
Nice point, testie, I like how the Zune Marketplace keeps its sense of reality and aesthetics in line with that of D&D level generations and WoW experience points. My parents really would be able to relate to these.
Article on MacNN again!
Zune does not work with Macs_ Zune is not a viable iPod competitor_
MacNN - why are you so retarded?