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Zune — $249.99 On Nov. 14 355

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:02PM from the no-price-war-on-songs dept.

Cubricon writes, "As expected, Microsoft has dropped their price on the Zune in response to Apple's recent iPod updates. Ars Technica has an article that discusses the Zune's use of Microsoft's prepaid 'points' system for songs. Will the masses notice the difference between an iPod and a Zune? Will they want the FM and wireless capabilities?" The Zune lists for $0.99 more than the comparable iPod and songs from the Zune Marketplace will cost just under $0.99.

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Zune — $249.99 On Nov. 14

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Not buying it. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:04PM (#16236883)

Wireless. Same amount of space as an iPod. Lame.

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Great advantage (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:08PM (#16236929)

Song downloads just under 99 cents? Would that make them 98 cents?

I predict a flood of switchers.

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Re:Monday Morning Quarterbacking (Score:5, Funny)

by LoudMusic ( 199347 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:10PM (#16236985)

I mean, this thing is gonna bomb anyway, minus well lower the price and hope to make more money on the music-selling end of things.

Isn't that supposed to be "might as well"? Or is there some kind of joke that I'm missing?

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What about the shitty brown color scheme ? (Score:4, Funny)

by javaDragon ( 187973 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:11PM (#16236997) Homepage

Most people are not "artist" enough to appreciate that "innovative" brown...

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Busses are on the way (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:19PM (#16237129)

Everyone should have a battery powered radio receiver. Hurricanes...

Yeah, hearing rhetoric, empty promises and outright lies live over the air while you're up to you ears in alligators would be a heckuva plus.

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Can't wait for this to be verbed (Score:5, Funny)

by TheWoozle ( 984500 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:26PM (#16237233)

Just wait until some hapless teenager shares a song with his friend only to find out a couple days later he can't move it off his player. "Dude, I just got Zuned!"

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Re:FM... (Score:3, Funny)

by MLopat ( 848735 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:27PM (#16237257) Homepage

Come on, you know batteries were available. You can't tell me that there were free TV's in everyone's hands but no batteries around for miles ;)

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Re:FM... (Score:5, Funny)

by michrech ( 468134 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:28PM (#16237287)

Fuck running, i'm stealing a Hummer H1 with a radio and killing 2 birds with one stone (and anyone who won't move out of my way)!

What happens 6 miles down the road after you run out of fuel? :)

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Re:FM... (Score:2, Funny)

by cunina ( 986893 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:46PM (#16237569)

Or, if you want to get apocalyptic, in the case of a 90 to 99 percent death rate in the human population, it might be useful for finding other people. (Assuming you want to find them!)

Brains.... brains...

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Re:What about the shitty brown color scheme ? (Score:5, Funny)

by microcars ( 708223 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:49PM (#16237613) Homepage

It is the "UPS" version
"U2" was already taken

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Confused (Score:2, Funny)

by catdevnull ( 531283 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:49PM (#16237617)

I'm very confused about the choice of brown for a color. Does the shiney brown mean that Microsoft has pioneered a break-through for turd polish?

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Re:Sweet (Score:3, Funny)

by lubricated ( 49106 ) writes: <michalp.gmail@com> on Thursday September 28, 2006 @05:54PM (#16237699)

>> Yeah, that's what we'll likely see, pointless innovation for the sake of innovation, the next gen will probably ha

all those features kick ass. I shouldn't have bought my ipod yet. Nothing like an easy to use turnip twaddler made by apple.

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Re:Great advantage (Score:3, Funny)

by ByTor-2112 ( 313205 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:01PM (#16237779)

Donnie's discount gas?!

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Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:4, Funny)

by jb.hl.com ( 782137 ) writes: <joe.joe-baldwin@net> on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:05PM (#16237831) Homepage Journal

I quite like this comment [slashdot.org] from that story:

Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...

Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...

Raise your hand if you have both ...

Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...

There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.

Talk about hindsight being 20/20...

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Re:FM... (Score:5, Funny)

by ruiner13 ( 527499 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:05PM (#16237833) Homepage

"What happens 6 miles down the road after you run out of fuel?"

That's still 5.5 more miles than I would have gotten running!

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Re:Fuzzy Math? (Score:2, Funny)

by M00TP01NT ( 596278 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:06PM (#16237841)

Buy 395, get 1 FREE!!

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Re:Zune for $249.99? (Score:5, Funny)

by Murphy Murph ( 833008 ) writes: <sealab.murphy@gmail.com> on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:18PM (#16238015) Journal

Hang on,

the Zune is $249.99. The iPod is $249.00, with $0.99 left over to buy a song with.

Ahh, but you'll make than up after you buy your 397th song from the Zune Store.

249.99+397*0.9875=642.0275 (Zune)
249.00+397*0.9900=642.0300

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Re:FM... (Score:2, Funny)

by Tod DeBie ( 522956 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:19PM (#16238021)

If you want an emergency radio, get one with three bands and get one that has a hand crank.
Next thing you know, Creative will come out with a hand crank Zen.

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Re:Monday Morning Quarterbacking (Score:4, Funny)

by protohiro1 ( 590732 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:25PM (#16238091) Homepage Journal

Hey, Loudmusic, just for old times sake, can you make a prediction on the sales of the zune? [slashdot.org]

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Ripoff! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @06:32PM (#16238167)

Why the hell would I want a Zune when I could get an iPod AND a whole song for the same price M$ is charging? Ripoff!

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Re:The sharing thing will make Zune fail. (Score:3, Funny)

by ByTor-2112 ( 313205 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @07:10PM (#16238701)

I'm just waiting for the inevitable security holes that will allow "Zunedriving" (you saw it here first) ... Run around crashing Zunes, stealing/erasing/replacing content, forcing the volume suddenly jump to 100%, uploading goatsex photos to replace all the album art. With Microsoft software at the helm, the possibilities are limitless!

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Re:Monday Morning Quarterbacking (Score:5, Funny)

by gEvil (beta) ( 945888 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @08:02PM (#16239239)

It's a mute point anyways, since what he said is, for all intensive purposes, correct. It's a doggy dog world out there, so they might as well keep the price low.

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Re:FM... (Score:3, Funny)

by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @09:50PM (#16240141) Homepage Journal

What happens 6 miles down the road after you run out of fuel? :)
When did they tripple the size of the fuel tank?!

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YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC SUCKS (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 28, 2006 @11:39PM (#16240907)

Suppose you're listening to something good, like Audioslave

I can't suppose that. There is no sound that is both "good" and "like Audioslave".

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Re:FM... (Score:3, Funny)

by spacefight ( 577141 ) writes: on Friday September 29, 2006 @02:56AM (#16241983)

As an aside, I have a battery big enough to power my portable MP3 player for several months if the power ever died.

Is that a battery in your trousers or are you just happy to see me?

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Re:FM... (Score:2, Funny)

by greycortex ( 600578 ) writes: on Friday September 29, 2006 @04:14AM (#16242259) Journal

Oh yeah, what happens when the ionosphere burns off? What then, smart guy?

Also, don't knock the Zune. I'm sure it would get better range and accuracy... when thrown than a cinder block, you know, for the riots.

You could listen to it for a while in the end-times. Watching the sky burn while listening to Bob Marley will be wild. When the five hours have passed, this is when you assert yourself as the head of your tribe of neo-savages by hurling it at the guy with the cinder block. Remember, it packs more of a punch with some spin.

Either that, or you could hurl it at the wierdo cranking off his radio listening to the guy trapped in his booth scream nonstop for hours on end. Good riddance!

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Re:Monday Morning Quarterbacking (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday September 29, 2006 @04:19AM (#16242283)

Whoosh!

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Re:What is wrong with that? (Score:3, Funny)

by tbone1 ( 309237 ) writes: on Friday September 29, 2006 @08:31AM (#16243459) Homepage

Sterotypes are for people without a sense of adventure.
Yeah, people who use stereotypes are all alike.

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