did you learn from the commemts?! people DO NOT want a vape sponsor. its just crap to advertise something like this, its shit for your health, no matter how "healthy" the sponsor makes it seem.
Microsoft also has named the third xbox called Xbox one and named their latest console the Xbox series x even though it sounds like Xbox one x so the naming person has low iq
Reminds me of my favorite quote from “Barbarians at the Gate,” where RJR Nabisco spent $350 million to make a smokeless cigarette, only to have it both smell and taste bad. “Tastes like shit and smells like a fart! Got ourselves a real winner here, it’s one goddamn unique advertising slogan, I’ll give you that.”
I had a (brown) Gen 1 Zune back in high school and the first couple of years of college, and, despite the hardware issues, the subscription model was actually a game changer. At the time, being able to download unlimited music and put it on a mobile device felt like a cheat code, and I legitimately don’t think I’ve ever been more into music than I was during that period. In a pre music streaming world, it was legitimately incredible to be able to explore new bands with no restrictions. It was such a great feature that, even though I switched back to the Apple ecosystem in like 2008 when I moved over to iPhone, I still ended up buying a separate Gen 2 Zune to listen to music on. For all of its faults, if Microsoft had found a way to better capitalize on and evolve that particular business model, who knows? Maybe we would all have Zune subscriptions instead of Spotify today.
Looking at what Microsoft, knew was on the horizon with a psudo-social media app like spoify (i.e. wrapped, sharing playlists, etc.) they were away ahead of the times.. too bad people didn't see it.
@@darrel7589 yeah the video mentions lots of features and strengths of Zune were later copied by Apple too. A lot of the bugs and crashes mentioned in the video sound like the result of a rush to market. They didn't spend enough time testing and polishing out the bugs before releasing to the general public.
@@darrel7589 apple does not follow trends; they create it; iPhone removes earphone jack; 2 years later everyone did, apple removes, apple removes power adapter from iPhone; 2 years later Samsun did, apple enforces no skeuomorphic UI; 2 years later android did the same, apple uses only usb c on Macs, 2 years later hawei do the same in their matebook.
The zune was so much better than the iPod. It had a oled screen and music subscriptions before they were common. The issue was Msoft cancels everything if it’s not successful in the first 12 months. The iPod took years to become mainstream. Microsoft never understood that
Alright, maybe I’m not directly talking about the Zune here. But just seeing the song picks and playlists in the video brought me right back to that era. A time when music felt like something precious, something we just had to own. I miss hearing those songs for the first time-those were the good days.
My incentive was that I really hated Apple and thought the iPod interface was moronic (I still do), and the Zune was just a much more logical approach to a mass storage based mp3 player. Yes there were other players on the market, and I had several Sandisk Sansas and Creative MuVos or whatever, but those were cheap flash-based ones with tiny displays. Zune was amazing for watching movies on... yeah the resolution was the same as the iPod but you didn't have to squint. I put entire seasons of Family Guy on there and would watch it in school
Zune also had a streaming music service before anyone else. Some of the features were ahead of its time. By the second gen they nailed everything but the iPhone came out.
Same, except I got mine when in high school. These retrospective videos pointing out that the iPhone came out at the same time as the Zune really seem to be from a mindset of "we all had unlimited money and knew every cutting edge piece of tech that was being made" which just wasn't true. Zune was a much better choice for me than iPod for several reasons and I went with that instead.
I bought my first zune 2 years ago and i love it. I ended up buying the first gen, 2nd gen and zune hd so I could experience each. Its not a perfect device, but i enjoy its quirks and the interface is great. Its nice to go for walks with nothing but my zune. No notifications to distract me.
I had a friend who had the Zune and since we were in the same band we would add songs to our iPods to go home and learn to play at shows. I asked him why he had a ZUNE instead of the iPod because he always had to bring his laptop just to add music to the Zune (might as well just use the laptop). He said "I didn't buy it...I won it at a giveaway, there is no way I would buy this hunk of junk! The words Hunk of Junk inspired an original song by the same name about a guy who buys all the latest electronics and discards them in a pile once they fall out of fashion!
When I was in my teens I would go through a wide range of MP3 players because my friends and I would just trade em around with each other. I had a Mini Disc player, iPod, Dell Musicbox or whatever it was called, a whole bunch of knockoffs, and a Zune. I stuck with the Zune for a quite awhile and never understood the hate besides getting music on it, that I remember was a constant battle. I forget what I traded the Zune for eventually but it sucks it never really took off because it was a neat little device with a nice OS. My sister also had a Zune mini and she used it for years until it eventually died on her.
Man I remember that! And how sleep it looked on that nice OLED screen! People complained about how easy it was to scratch and break the glass screens on iPods but the Zunes were built so much better!
This video felt very unpolished, weird audio and video cuts. And the sponsorship makes me want to gag. Was hoping you learned from the last video, guess not. 3 chances, so you have one chance left to redeem yourself.
OMG I LOVED ZUNE!! The screen looked better than an iPod and the features it had were so good!! It actually had a radio tuner and I LOVED the feature where it would search for music and add it to your zune. Finally, it had WIFI SYNC before iPod ever had it! Not to mention it had an OLED screen, something people griped about iPods not having. Much like how today, we gripe about iPhones not having 120 hz screens as a standard.
Yeah, and not even just wireless syncing but after an update you could download music on it using wi-fi too, no computer needed. You did have to have Zune Pass or points in your account, but that much should be obvious. It was just so much better than iPod, but sadly the Apple culture won
@ aw man I’d forgotten about zune pass. I wasn’t such a huge apple fan back then, but I do remember thinking how much nicer of a product it was than the iPod touch… yet so many folks bought the iPod. Zune didn’t have many apps.
@@thecapone45 Yeah, Zune Pass was really ahead of the curve when it came to music subscriptions... though I was never interested in paying for it and don't pay for them now either. I prefer to own my music and pay for songs I like. Zune HD was cool in theory, and I loved playing Audiosurf with music on my Zune using the gyroscope - but it infuriated me that there were no pressable buttons on the thing besides the power and home button, so if you wanted to do something like change the volume or quickly mute a song (e.g. when someone tries to talk to you with your headphones in) you have to wake up the touch screen and tap it. Dumb... pretty sure the iPod Touch always had a physical volume rocker. If Zune HD had that it would have been great. I kept using my 80GB Zune even after getting the HD
Back then when the Zune and the iPod were out, I went with the iriver. The iriver was such a cool device, it had a little haptic scroll pad, rechargeable battery, I can't remember how many songs it held though.
Why tf ppl so butt hurt over a ad you literally could fast forward and it’s his channel he can choose wtf ever he wants he built this channel to what it is yall obliviously like it that’s why your here 🤦🏽♂️ so stfu and watch or get tf on simple I hate seeing ppl getting attacked for the dumbest 💩
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED MY ALL MY ZUNES!!! had a gen 1 30gb white, a gen 2 8gb blue and the Zune HD 32gb platinum, and they were the best standalone mp3 players I ever owned. Really wish they would bring it back with a refreshed windows mobile UI that runs natively on ARM and runs android apps natively and comes with a 128gb or 256gb ssd and relaunch the Zune Music Player app on Windows, Android, Chrome, MacOS and iOS
My cousin had one and boy did she let the world know it. It was funny to see her a coule of years later... same zune... but... i kinda want one today. They were solid mp3 players
I bought a Zune when it originally came out and I liked it very much, once the iPhone 3G came out I just wanted one device so I switched. After the iPhone 4 I didn’t have a cell phone for years but when I came back I got into Windows Mobile until it was discontinued and went back to iPhone. I loved Windows mobile
My 2007 iPod still works and integrates with my stuff flawlessly despite no longer needing it. If I did, perfect. Please regale me of your tales of your 2007 doing exactly the same today. Heheh
I won a Zune in some sort of online contest (2nd generation '80' model). I tried to get it to work, but I wasn't able to get a single song on it. I already had an iPod Nano, so i wasn't too motivated to get the Zune working.
It's not a vape. There is no nicotine or batteries. Also stop crying about it kid. What if it was a vape? You gonna report him over it child? Are you Christian or something? Because that sounds like something a Christian like you would say. "Vaping is a sin". LMAO you make me laugh. Get a life kid
Apple is by no means perfect, but good development and management of an ecosystem matters. I mean, 'Squirting?" That it made it out of whatever meeting room it was dreamed up in is beyond me.
The first Zune was amazing. The sharing feature was so awesome. My best friend had one too so we would share song between class. It was so cool. I had one that lasted the typical 2 years and then got the new 80 gig one (probably 2008) and it was terrible. Froze and the battery life was bad from new and got unusable quickly
SO MANY TECH PRODUCTS FAIL BECAUSE THE MAKERS DON'T FIND OUT WHAT USERS WANT. JOBS UNDERSTOOD WHAT PEOPLE WANTED. IPOD IS STILL MY FAVOURITE APPLE INVENTION. AND THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE IT NOW. I BOUGHT FOUR DIFFERENT IPODS OVER TIME. SORRY FOR ALL CAPS. EYESIGHT ISSUES.
My GF at the time had a Zune and we both liked it but it was F'd up, as mentioned, by MS. I do have to disagree that the Ipod was a comparatively "easy" experience. Same GF got me a nano with the screen, super cool looking, went to put MY burned CD's on it...Apple said "Nope" and though I was gonna buy them AGAIN. Told her sorry and asked for receipt, went to Best Buy, got me a Sansa Clip and NEVER looked at Apple again.
Wild. Even after the controversy from your last video in working with Füm, you come right back and do it again. Looks like you don't care about your fans or your viewers, which is a shame.
Back in 2006 I received a zune for birthday, compared to my 20gb iPod 4g it seemed like it could be a serious competitor for apple devices, the color screen looked very promising, the translucent black greenish color, radio and WiFi, all the automatic ID metadata additions or the albums, games, and so. It was a great device until the moment I tried to install its software, I’ve tried on 17 different all the ones PCs at home, all the ones at school and my dads office also and I can’t install it neither the incluided cd neither the software downloaded from their web despite it launched a new one practically each week. So my parents returned it to the store and I got a new iPod video, I never had any issue with iTunes, i can still sync all my iPods without any problem, even now that iTunes disappeared on the new macOS it can sync over finder’s music section
This was what I first planned on buying back then when it came to Microsoft's Zune. Thanks to this video, I was wondering what happened to the Zune and now I know. I got the iPod Touch 4th Generation on Christmas Day of 2010 as a gift and glad I got the iPod Touch instead of the Zune. I did not have to connect the iPod Touch to a computer and used WiFi instead. I used the iPod Touch for internet access and listen to music online. This video and the other video explaining the fate of the Microsoft Phone explained why both devices did not live up to the claims Microsoft had made for the Microsoft Phone and Zune devices including the technological problems. The software used for the Zune glad I did not have to deal with what sounded like a huge headache.
I remember seeing a zoom at a Chuck e cheese's slot machine .. I always knew that it was some sort of MP3 player . And I'll always curious about it. But I never got one. And after seeing this video.. I am so glad I never did . I'm getting anxiety and anger just seeing all the problems it had.. But to go through it and experience it myself first hand... I probably would have threw it and destroyed it
Thought i own an iPhone 15 Max Pro I still use Digital Audio Players (DAP) to hear music. The music on DAPs sound better than music on iPhone. I have the Hiby R5ii and the Hiby R6iii. I have the music i purchased throughout the years on them that are not susceptible to recall by the artist or company. I also do stream music because it if of even higher quality than my purchased music. Of course I also have high end earbuds and headphones. I am a novice audio file. Still use my iPhone for music in the car and at home with the high qualtiy ear/headphone. In some way the protable music player has not gone away and is enjoyed by many without the distractions of a smart phone.
The zune could have been a hit but much like Windows phone Microsoft just doesn’t know how to market their products that are not Windows. Not to mention the iPod had already been out and had five generations by the time the zune came out. Also rip to former CNET editor James Kim @ 2:43 who passed away back in 2006.
No, Microsoft's products will most likely fail. They never know what people want and make terrible products. It's not about marketing or timing. It's basically that their products sucks.
The Zune, like a lot of Microsoft's endeavors, was a victim of being a trend follower instead of a trendsetter. Microsoft are always just one step behind and can never capture the market the way Apple has. The thing that's ironic is that some could argue that the Zune actually was the superior product when you look at its features and specs, but the iPod's simplicity is what made it king. And Apple's marketing machine is WAY more powerful than Microsoft could ever dream to touch. The Apple brand and iPod had a significant cultural impact on its generation, and that's why people chose Apple even if the Zune was "the better product" on paper.
I feel like this is pretty eye opening to the iphone user's mindset in the iphone vs android debate. A lot of them will argue that apple is "just better" regardless of any argument to the contrary. Seeing this, however, makes me think that that argument started back when the ipod was legitimately just better; being more functional, user friendly, and less weird than it's largest mainstream competition. Then that sentiment naturally carried over to the first iphone, bringing us today.
The Zune software damn near brought my computer to a standstill. It literally took a couple of hours to do what I could do in minutes using anything else. And I’ll never understand why Zune couldn’t just use Windows Media Player. It was made by the same company!
first time i heard of Zune was when Bill Gates sat on stage next to Steve Jobs. i wanted to know Microsoft's take on it, but all the retail stores were out of stock. so i envisioned Zune to ve a marvelous thing. i liked the Zune logo appearing online and i did not know most of the pros and cons described here.
The Zune is and always will be one of my favourite products especially the HD it was way ahead of its time for design both hardware and software but sometimes things just dont catch on, Microsoft should have gone down the Spotify style route and having the Zune app as a music streaming service or something but eh another universe maybe
I never used a Zune and to be honest never had any interest in any MP3 players. I did however use the Zune theme for Windows XP and used it for around a decade. The device itself may have been bad but the theme was the best ever released for XP.
I had a Zune mainly because I was so anti Apple at the time, I still say if the Zune came out in even 2004, it would have been more successful. The biggest negative with the Zune for me was the battery life, it was Lousy compared to the iPod Classic.
I will tell you why it failed, because I bought it. I bought a blackberry because I didn’t think the iPhone would takeoff. I bought a Nintendo 64 because I didn’t think PlayStation would take off and I didn’t buy an iPod because I thought Zun wouldtake takeoff. Manufacturers, if I buy your product, discontinue it because it will fail
I use to be against Apple and wanted a Zune but I was against Apple because of you connect your iPod to a different computer than the original you have to format the iPod to add new songs
I’ve watched you for a few years, just unsubscribed because of the ad… Everyone is starting to sell out and lower their credibility for a few extra dollars
watching this it seems like Microsoft totally missed the mark on what made the iPod such a powerhouse. It wasn't the most technically impressive device because it didn't have to be. Why would you want your mp3 player, something that will be in your pocket 99% of the time to have all these features?
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@@techconixwhat happened?
did you learn from the commemts?! people DO NOT want a vape sponsor. its just crap to advertise something like this, its shit for your health, no matter how "healthy" the sponsor makes it seem.
Squirt me a song bro 😩💦
Bro what
@@doodoofart6698 You're not apart of this club broo!1!! Get out of here with ur lame iPod ://
@@doodoofart6698 You're not apart of this club broo!1!! Get out of here with ur lame iPod ://
@TheOrangeCat808 I said a song damn you. 🍆💦💦💦
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@@Dairunt1 I zuned out😩
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@@Mohammad-muhtasim the reply is funny tbh
Billions of dollars in valuation and no one pointed out that "squirting" is hilariously cringematic???
That's Toxic Positivity for ya, nobody can criticise especially in corporate culture
People see their boss and think “what an idiot”, then see their paycheque and think “but whatever”.
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Microsoft also has named the third xbox called Xbox one and named their latest console the Xbox series x even though it sounds like Xbox one x so the naming person has low iq
Reminds me of my favorite quote from “Barbarians at the Gate,” where RJR Nabisco spent $350 million to make a smokeless cigarette, only to have it both smell and taste bad.
“Tastes like shit and smells like a fart! Got ourselves a real winner here, it’s one goddamn unique advertising slogan, I’ll give you that.”
I had a (brown) Gen 1 Zune back in high school and the first couple of years of college, and, despite the hardware issues, the subscription model was actually a game changer. At the time, being able to download unlimited music and put it on a mobile device felt like a cheat code, and I legitimately don’t think I’ve ever been more into music than I was during that period. In a pre music streaming world, it was legitimately incredible to be able to explore new bands with no restrictions. It was such a great feature that, even though I switched back to the Apple ecosystem in like 2008 when I moved over to iPhone, I still ended up buying a separate Gen 2 Zune to listen to music on.
For all of its faults, if Microsoft had found a way to better capitalize on and evolve that particular business model, who knows? Maybe we would all have Zune subscriptions instead of Spotify today.
Looking at what Microsoft, knew was on the horizon with a psudo-social media app like spoify (i.e. wrapped, sharing playlists, etc.) they were away ahead of the times.. too bad people didn't see it.
The Zune failed because Microsoft was being a trend follower
@dude_uncool_6969 It's not like Apple has never followed any trends. There's room in markets for more than one version of a product.
@@darrel7589 yeah the video mentions lots of features and strengths of Zune were later copied by Apple too. A lot of the bugs and crashes mentioned in the video sound like the result of a rush to market. They didn't spend enough time testing and polishing out the bugs before releasing to the general public.
Trend following is modern capitalism
@@darrel7589 apple does not follow trends; they create it; iPhone removes earphone jack; 2 years later everyone did, apple removes, apple removes power adapter from iPhone; 2 years later Samsun did, apple enforces no skeuomorphic UI; 2 years later android did the same, apple uses only usb c on Macs, 2 years later hawei do the same in their matebook.
@@darrel7589 Difference is they do it well.
I remember wanting a Zune, but my grandma said “That won’t last” and got me an iPod.
My mom did the same to me between the gamecast and PS2 lol
What a smart woman
I noticed you’re holding your laughter when telling about “squirt a picture.. squirting back a video..” 😂
I don’t think there is a single human being on earth that can say it without feeling at least a HINT of laughter 💀
The zune was so much better than the iPod. It had a oled screen and music subscriptions before they were common. The issue was Msoft cancels everything if it’s not successful in the first 12 months. The iPod took years to become mainstream. Microsoft never understood that
The 3rd time they've tried to make windows for arm, and I already feel like they've buried...
Alright, maybe I’m not directly talking about the Zune here.
But just seeing the song picks and playlists in the video brought me right back to that era.
A time when music felt like something precious, something we just had to own.
I miss hearing those songs for the first time-those were the good days.
Couldn't agree more, man. Same here.
The best part about Zune was the Zune Windows XP theme. It was glossy black with orange highlights and it looked amazing.
Always get a laugh seeing Ballmer sweating like he doesn’t believe in air conditioning.
Or showers.
“Microsoft was focused on its competitor and made a better mp3 player. Apple was focused on itself and made the iPhone”.
- tech consultant Simon Sinek
It wasn’t better than iPod
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The Zune was released way too late and didn’t bring anything game-changing. For a consumer, there was no incentive to buy a Zune instead of an iPod.
There were also other mp3 players on the market. Those who could afford one had already bought something by the time the Zune came out.
Amazing summary! You saved me 24 minutes.
They did not learn their lessons when the windows phone was made
My incentive was that I really hated Apple and thought the iPod interface was moronic (I still do), and the Zune was just a much more logical approach to a mass storage based mp3 player.
Yes there were other players on the market, and I had several Sandisk Sansas and Creative MuVos or whatever, but those were cheap flash-based ones with tiny displays. Zune was amazing for watching movies on... yeah the resolution was the same as the iPod but you didn't have to squint. I put entire seasons of Family Guy on there and would watch it in school
Zune also had a streaming music service before anyone else. Some of the features were ahead of its time. By the second gen they nailed everything but the iPhone came out.
You should do a video on why the vision Quest Failed so Miserably. Apple can't sell em.
Literally got backlash for the sponsor in the last video, and he does it again.
Clear he doesn’t read his own comments section. Or he gets paid bank. I bet both.
Yup yup
Do people actually buy stuff they see in ads these days? Plus internet ads is sketchy compared to tv ads
@@stellviahohenheimtv ads are just as shady tbh.
Your really that upset because he had a ad. Get over yourself
I still have my Zune, my experience with the Zune was amazing going through college
Yeah, I heard a lot of people smoked weed in collage and lost touch of reality.
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Same, except I got mine when in high school.
These retrospective videos pointing out that the iPhone came out at the same time as the Zune really seem to be from a mindset of "we all had unlimited money and knew every cutting edge piece of tech that was being made" which just wasn't true. Zune was a much better choice for me than iPod for several reasons and I went with that instead.
Wtf are these sponsors
He is on fume
why you so soft
I bought my first zune 2 years ago and i love it. I ended up buying the first gen, 2nd gen and zune hd so I could experience each. Its not a perfect device, but i enjoy its quirks and the interface is great. Its nice to go for walks with nothing but my zune. No notifications to distract me.
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I had a friend who had the Zune and since we were in the same band we would add songs to our iPods to go home and learn to play at shows. I asked him why he had a ZUNE instead of the iPod because he always had to bring his laptop just to add music to the Zune (might as well just use the laptop). He said "I didn't buy it...I won it at a giveaway, there is no way I would buy this hunk of junk! The words Hunk of Junk inspired an original song by the same name about a guy who buys all the latest electronics and discards them in a pile once they fall out of fashion!
What? You also needed to use a computer to add songs to iPods…
You did not need a computer to add songs to a zune especially in the later models.
Another great video! I remember a friend had the Zune and he almost immediately regretted the purchase back in 2006
I absolutely loved my Zune generation 2 and Zune HD. I have no shame in saying it.
Are we going to forget that this guy decided to take a sponsorship from a vaping company?
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He could close the channel up and go get a job. They need to make money too.
bro got sponsored to promote *VAPING,* GREG THE BILLS CAN’T BE THIS HIGH!! 😭😭
It’s not a vape
5 years too late. But I still have the Zune HD. Great device
When I was in my teens I would go through a wide range of MP3 players because my friends and I would just trade em around with each other. I had a Mini Disc player, iPod, Dell Musicbox or whatever it was called, a whole bunch of knockoffs, and a Zune. I stuck with the Zune for a quite awhile and never understood the hate besides getting music on it, that I remember was a constant battle. I forget what I traded the Zune for eventually but it sucks it never really took off because it was a neat little device with a nice OS. My sister also had a Zune mini and she used it for years until it eventually died on her.
The thin zune typeface was nice tho. I give them that
Man I remember that! And how sleep it looked on that nice OLED screen! People complained about how easy it was to scratch and break the glass screens on iPods but the Zunes were built so much better!
The Windows XP Zune theme was also great.
The only thing Microsoft did well was Xbox, period
Even that is now going to shit
This video felt very unpolished, weird audio and video cuts. And the sponsorship makes me want to gag. Was hoping you learned from the last video, guess not. 3 chances, so you have one chance left to redeem yourself.
This channel has been low effort for YEARS. Just watch his Steve Jobs "documentary" -- ripped word for word from Steve Jobs' Wikipedia entry
lol oh no 😨
OMG I LOVED ZUNE!! The screen looked better than an iPod and the features it had were so good!! It actually had a radio tuner and I LOVED the feature where it would search for music and add it to your zune. Finally, it had WIFI SYNC before iPod ever had it! Not to mention it had an OLED screen, something people griped about iPods not having. Much like how today, we gripe about iPhones not having 120 hz screens as a standard.
Yeah, and not even just wireless syncing but after an update you could download music on it using wi-fi too, no computer needed. You did have to have Zune Pass or points in your account, but that much should be obvious.
It was just so much better than iPod, but sadly the Apple culture won
@ aw man I’d forgotten about zune pass. I wasn’t such a huge apple fan back then, but I do remember thinking how much nicer of a product it was than the iPod touch… yet so many folks bought the iPod. Zune didn’t have many apps.
@@thecapone45 Yeah, Zune Pass was really ahead of the curve when it came to music subscriptions... though I was never interested in paying for it and don't pay for them now either. I prefer to own my music and pay for songs I like.
Zune HD was cool in theory, and I loved playing Audiosurf with music on my Zune using the gyroscope - but it infuriated me that there were no pressable buttons on the thing besides the power and home button, so if you wanted to do something like change the volume or quickly mute a song (e.g. when someone tries to talk to you with your headphones in) you have to wake up the touch screen and tap it. Dumb... pretty sure the iPod Touch always had a physical volume rocker. If Zune HD had that it would have been great. I kept using my 80GB Zune even after getting the HD
Wow...Ballmer dropped the ball on a LOT of things at Microsoft 😮😂
Back then when the Zune and the iPod were out, I went with the iriver. The iriver was such a cool device, it had a little haptic scroll pad, rechargeable battery, I can't remember how many songs it held though.
Why tf ppl so butt hurt over a ad you literally could fast forward and it’s his channel he can choose wtf ever he wants he built this channel to what it is yall obliviously like it that’s why your here 🤦🏽♂️ so stfu and watch or get tf on simple I hate seeing ppl getting attacked for the dumbest 💩
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I ABSOLUTELY LOVED MY ALL MY ZUNES!!! had a gen 1 30gb white, a gen 2 8gb blue and the Zune HD 32gb platinum, and they were the best standalone mp3 players I ever owned. Really wish they would bring it back with a refreshed windows mobile UI that runs natively on ARM and runs android apps natively and comes with a 128gb or 256gb ssd and relaunch the Zune Music Player app on Windows, Android, Chrome, MacOS and iOS
I don't know that subscription model exist. That's such a deal. If only they focus around that model and also just had a better marketing team
I’m Still have my 80GB Zune 2nd generation since 2007 and still works. 😊
My cousin had one and boy did she let the world know it. It was funny to see her a coule of years later... same zune... but... i kinda want one today. They were solid mp3 players
Naaah. Squirting in tech is not something I thought I'd ever hear
Well there was IBM/Lenovo clitoris in the keyboard :)
Unofficial name tho
squirting 😭🤣💀 I wish I remembered that 😆 I was a very naive 7th grader though so i wouldn’t have even been able to appreciate how bad that is
“Squirting” a song or picture is going to be on my mind for days now
I bought a Zune when it originally came out and I liked it very much, once the iPhone 3G came out I just wanted one device so I switched. After the iPhone 4 I didn’t have a cell phone for years but when I came back I got into Windows Mobile until it was discontinued and went back to iPhone.
I loved Windows mobile
MS couldn't succeed in anything without a monopoly. Plus, Ballmer should've never been CEO. 😒
My 2007 iPod still works and integrates with my stuff flawlessly despite no longer needing it. If I did, perfect.
Please regale me of your tales of your 2007 doing exactly the same today. Heheh
Why FÜM sponsorship….
Tobacco industry still kicking it. Gotta find young customers.
I won a Zune in some sort of online contest (2nd generation '80' model). I tried to get it to work, but I wasn't able to get a single song on it. I already had an iPod Nano, so i wasn't too motivated to get the Zune working.
Stop taling füm ads.
Just so I'm understanding the hate.. Could you explain to me what füm is?
Great content, but highly disagree with the vape ad.
It's not a vape. There is no nicotine or batteries. Also stop crying about it kid. What if it was a vape? You gonna report him over it child? Are you Christian or something? Because that sounds like something a Christian like you would say. "Vaping is a sin". LMAO you make me laugh. Get a life kid
It’s NOT A VAPE! It’s quite literally flavored air…zero nicotine. Sheesh!
Apple is by no means perfect, but good development and management of an ecosystem matters. I mean, 'Squirting?" That it made it out of whatever meeting room it was dreamed up in is beyond me.
The first Zune was amazing. The sharing feature was so awesome. My best friend had one too so we would share song between class. It was so cool. I had one that lasted the typical 2 years and then got the new 80 gig one (probably 2008) and it was terrible. Froze and the battery life was bad from new and got unusable quickly
Why he sweat so much?
The dog was not itching himself, he was scratching himself. You scatch an itch, you do not itch a scratch.
Man, I forgot about Zune Pass. I think I still have some of those songs saved somewhere.
I remember myself back in the day, playing with the zune games that were later introduced with software updates. It was cool 😎
If I had a nickel for every time Microsoft competed with apple and failed I would’ve 2 nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
The one good thing to come of Zune was the theme for Windows XP. Black and orange is a great color palette.
SO MANY TECH PRODUCTS FAIL BECAUSE THE MAKERS DON'T FIND OUT WHAT USERS WANT. JOBS UNDERSTOOD WHAT PEOPLE WANTED. IPOD IS STILL MY FAVOURITE APPLE INVENTION. AND THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE IT NOW. I BOUGHT FOUR DIFFERENT IPODS OVER TIME. SORRY FOR ALL CAPS. EYESIGHT ISSUES.
My GF at the time had a Zune and we both liked it but it was F'd up, as mentioned, by MS. I do have to disagree that the Ipod was a comparatively "easy" experience. Same GF got me a nano with the screen, super cool looking, went to put MY burned CD's on it...Apple said "Nope" and though I was gonna buy them AGAIN. Told her sorry and asked for receipt, went to Best Buy, got me a Sansa Clip and NEVER looked at Apple again.
Maybe it's partially because of it being uncommon, but am I the only one who thinks the brown color looks really good?
Wild. Even after the controversy from your last video in working with Füm, you come right back and do it again. Looks like you don't care about your fans or your viewers, which is a shame.
Back in 2006 I received a zune for birthday, compared to my 20gb iPod 4g it seemed like it could be a serious competitor for apple devices, the color screen looked very promising, the translucent black greenish color, radio and WiFi, all the automatic ID metadata additions or the albums, games, and so. It was a great device until the moment I tried to install its software, I’ve tried on 17 different all the ones PCs at home, all the ones at school and my dads office also and I can’t install it neither the incluided cd neither the software downloaded from their web despite it launched a new one practically each week. So my parents returned it to the store and I got a new iPod video, I never had any issue with iTunes, i can still sync all my iPods without any problem, even now that iTunes disappeared on the new macOS it can sync over finder’s music section
As a long time subscriber, if I see another vape ad in the next video, I’m gonna unsubscribe
I spent half a Christmas Day trying to get my daughter’s friend’s Zune set up - total failure
That robotic delivery of “THANKS TO FUM FOR SPONSORING THIS VIDEO” was odd.
I missed that whole zune/iPod phase. Never had one
This was what I first planned on buying back then when it came to Microsoft's Zune. Thanks to this video, I was wondering what happened to the Zune and now I know. I got the iPod Touch 4th Generation on Christmas Day of 2010 as a gift and glad I got the iPod Touch instead of the Zune. I did not have to connect the iPod Touch to a computer and used WiFi instead. I used the iPod Touch for internet access and listen to music online. This video and the other video explaining the fate of the Microsoft Phone explained why both devices did not live up to the claims Microsoft had made for the Microsoft Phone and Zune devices including the technological problems. The software used for the Zune glad I did not have to deal with what sounded like a huge headache.
I remember seeing a zoom at a Chuck e cheese's slot machine .. I always knew that it was some sort of MP3 player . And I'll always curious about it. But I never got one. And after seeing this video.. I am so glad I never did .
I'm getting anxiety and anger just seeing all the problems it had..
But to go through it and experience it myself first hand... I probably would have threw it and destroyed it
The fact that they just totally forgot about leap years really needs to be discussed lol
Microsoft sucks. That having been said, I still want a Zune for my collection. Did I mention how badly Microsoft sucks?
Thought i own an iPhone 15 Max Pro I still use Digital Audio Players (DAP) to hear music. The music on DAPs sound better than music on iPhone. I have the Hiby R5ii and the Hiby R6iii. I have the music i purchased throughout the years on them that are not susceptible to recall by the artist or company. I also do stream music because it if of even higher quality than my purchased music. Of course I also have high end earbuds and headphones. I am a novice audio file. Still use my iPhone for music in the car and at home with the high qualtiy ear/headphone. In some way the protable music player has not gone away and is enjoyed by many without the distractions of a smart phone.
The zune could have been a hit but much like Windows phone Microsoft just doesn’t know how to market their products that are not Windows. Not to mention the iPod had already been out and had five generations by the time the zune came out.
Also rip to former CNET editor James Kim @ 2:43 who passed away back in 2006.
Microsoft only knows monopoly they literally doesn't know what fair competition is
No, Microsoft's products will most likely fail. They never know what people want and make terrible products. It's not about marketing or timing. It's basically that their products sucks.
Sheesh, squirting for a whole minute with a bro?
Zune Marketing team: “Zunect, zocial? Nah, I think squirt really has a ring to it”
The Zune, like a lot of Microsoft's endeavors, was a victim of being a trend follower instead of a trendsetter. Microsoft are always just one step behind and can never capture the market the way Apple has. The thing that's ironic is that some could argue that the Zune actually was the superior product when you look at its features and specs, but the iPod's simplicity is what made it king. And Apple's marketing machine is WAY more powerful than Microsoft could ever dream to touch. The Apple brand and iPod had a significant cultural impact on its generation, and that's why people chose Apple even if the Zune was "the better product" on paper.
I feel like this is pretty eye opening to the iphone user's mindset in the iphone vs android debate. A lot of them will argue that apple is "just better" regardless of any argument to the contrary. Seeing this, however, makes me think that that argument started back when the ipod was legitimately just better; being more functional, user friendly, and less weird than it's largest mainstream competition. Then that sentiment naturally carried over to the first iphone, bringing us today.
Is it told by a bot?
yooo missed the long videos!!
The Zune software damn near brought my computer to a standstill. It literally took a couple of hours to do what I could do in minutes using anything else.
And I’ll never understand why Zune couldn’t just use Windows Media Player. It was made by the same company!
Fum, again???? I downvoted and clicked off when I saw the advert.
so what ? your a nobody nobody cares about you
first time i heard of Zune was when Bill Gates sat on stage next to Steve Jobs. i wanted to know Microsoft's take on it, but all the retail stores were out of stock. so i envisioned Zune to ve a marvelous thing. i liked the Zune logo appearing online and i did not know most of the pros and cons described here.
The Zune is and always will be one of my favourite products especially the HD it was way ahead of its time for design both hardware and software but sometimes things just dont catch on, Microsoft should have gone down the Spotify style route and having the Zune app as a music streaming service or something but eh another universe maybe
RIP James Kim. He was my favorite CNET personality and what happened to him was horrible.
9:54 the verb of scratching an itch is scratching. Itching is why one scratches.
Had zero interest in the Zune.
I remember when Plainrock said "What the hell is this Zune doing here, ugh"
when lol
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I never used a Zune and to be honest never had any interest in any MP3 players. I did however use the Zune theme for Windows XP and used it for around a decade. The device itself may have been bad but the theme was the best ever released for XP.
I had a Zune mainly because I was so anti Apple at the time, I still say if the Zune came out in even 2004, it would have been more successful. The biggest negative with the Zune for me was the battery life, it was Lousy compared to the iPod Classic.
I dislike the sponsor
I will tell you why it failed, because I bought it. I bought a blackberry because I didn’t think the iPhone would takeoff. I bought a Nintendo 64 because I didn’t think PlayStation would take off and I didn’t buy an iPod because I thought Zun wouldtake takeoff.
Manufacturers, if I buy your product, discontinue it because it will fail
Have you ever looked back at your thoughts and seen common threads in your assessments of why those things wouldn’t take off?
Genuine question!
@@iantingen I always thought that I just bet on the wrong horse when it comes to technology
I was first to adopt but syncing music out of the gate was light years behind iTunes
21:05 that fear is obsolete because of the surface line of computers
Oh yeah, I remember why I unsubscribed. Füm.
I use to be against Apple and wanted a Zune but I was against Apple because of you connect your iPod to a different computer than the original you have to format the iPod to add new songs
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I’ve watched you for a few years, just unsubscribed because of the ad… Everyone is starting to sell out and lower their credibility for a few extra dollars
Watching on my ZUNE in 2025
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watching this it seems like Microsoft totally missed the mark on what made the iPod such a powerhouse. It wasn't the most technically impressive device because it didn't have to be. Why would you want your mp3 player, something that will be in your pocket 99% of the time to have all these features?
Haven't used mine since losing the cable. Smart phones mostly made it obsolete.