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Potential iPod Touch clone in the works by Microsoft
The story first broke over at Engadget when a set of marketing mock-ups of Microsoft’s new Zune, the “Zune HD” were discovered. Microsoft has yet to publicly admit to an iPod touch clone, however based on the initial information that is now available, it appears that the Zune HD will feature a similar unpretentious single home button and a widescreen display which is smaller than that of the iPod touch but fitted to a thicker shell.
The rumor does hold some promising foresight in that the conceptual Zune HD holds parallels to the target audience and general engineering of the original Zune, which also had a lower-density screen and a heftier housing than the first iPod.
Expectations for the Zune HD include implementation of a full-fledged Wi-Fi music store. It should be also safe to assume from its name that a lot of focus will go into video playback, though nearly all information currently available is nothing more than hearsay. Could we start to see some hype over a potential iPod killer all over again? Unless Microsoft tinkers with the idea of sharing some of the strengths a new Zune could inherit from the popular Xbox platform we seriously doubt it.
The rumor does hold some promising foresight in that the conceptual Zune HD holds parallels to the target audience and general engineering of the original Zune, which also had a lower-density screen and a heftier housing than the first iPod.
Expectations for the Zune HD include implementation of a full-fledged Wi-Fi music store. It should be also safe to assume from its name that a lot of focus will go into video playback, though nearly all information currently available is nothing more than hearsay. Could we start to see some hype over a potential iPod killer all over again? Unless Microsoft tinkers with the idea of sharing some of the strengths a new Zune could inherit from the popular Xbox platform we seriously doubt it.
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User Comments (7)
Post a comment| Wendig0 on April 12, 2009 11:35 AM | This wouldn't surprise me at all, seeing as how Microsoft
copies most of what Apple does anyway. e.g. Windows
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| fwilliams on April 12, 2009 12:56 PM | You are very kind to use the word "copies". I think it be a
little more like stealing, but that is just me.
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| TJGeezer on April 12, 2009 1:14 PM | I thought they both stole the concept from Xerox, whose
execs were too stuck in their soon-to-die copier service
model to see the value of Windows or of the mouse, or of
presumably any number of Xerox Parc innovations.
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| Relic on April 12, 2009 5:16 PM | From my understanding both companies copied the concept and
feel of the GUI. Either way, it'd be nice to see the Zune HD
and the Zune as a whole grow. Better competition, more
innovation, better prices, always leads to more choices and
that makes me as a consumer happy :-) .
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| dustin_ds3000 on April 12, 2009 7:34 PM | i have a 1st gen zune and i have been happy with it for the
past two years. right now i dont use it much because my
computer is right in front of me 80% of the time but im sure
will buy this Zune HD around the beginning of next year
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| 9Nails on April 13, 2009 6:58 PM | I have 24 Gigs of music (at 128-bit) and just an iPod Touch
16 Gig. D'oh!! I'm more than happy to give up my Touch to a
kid and get something new, but it has to do everything as
well as my iPod Touch and give me more room or it's no go.
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| ratticon on April 16, 2009 7:53 AM | Originally posted by Wendig0: This
wouldn't surprise me at all, seeing as how Microsoft copies
most of what Apple does anyway. e.g. Windows I don't
understand what you are saying here. They both have window
managers, they have both upgraded the design of their
interfaces when their respective userbases have systems
averaged at a higher gfx hardware level...
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