The Chicago Sun-Times has given the Microsoft Zune the worst review of any product that I’ve ever seen, describing it as ” product that’s so absurd and so obviously immune to success that it evokes something akin to a sense of pity,” and “a complete, humiliating failure.”
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Waldo — It’s only the worst review of any product that you’ve ever seen, because you’re too young to remember the PC Jr. I was, let’s say, an early adopter. The bad reviews were right.
IBM managed to ship 500,000 PCJr. I wonder how Zunes Microsoft will ship?
“Immune to success” is definitely the quote of the week.
” the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face. ”
Yeah…probably the best line I’ve read in a long time.
People generally knew less about computing when the PCjr was introduced. It was a total catastrophe. If it had been any other company, other than IBM, it would have killed them.
I always smile a little when I put in juxtaposition the words ‘innovation’ and ‘Microsoft Zune’. If you remember ‘innovation’ was the keyword being used by Microsoft and their lawyers when defending themselves in the anti-trust suit that was settled too quickly.
I didn’t know until I read this review that the Zune’s WiFi features are totally useless except for sampling other people’s music (complete with self-destructing DRM). I’d figured it could wirelessly transfer music from your computer — it’d be pretty awesome to leave it in the car and have podcasts uploaded to it at 6am every morning. But no. They didn’t bother. No innovation.