Comments on: Why Can’t Microsoft Develop Software for Zune HD?

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By: From OLED to Tegra: Five Myths of the Zune HD — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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By: nelsonart

nelsonart — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:45:19 +0000

I’ll take the older Apple over the younger version. Ditto for Steve Jobs.

I haven’t played with a Zune, but I’ve seen youtube videos. It really disturbed me that ‘Marketplace’ was cut off.

Once again, Microsoft has no class.

By: hmciv

hmciv — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:03:33 +0000

“[...I don't agree with the part about killing people though, that sounds like a Nazi/Republican idea. - Dan]”

The Nazis killed an estimated 31 million people prior to and during the Second World War. Which Republican philosophy is so hateful it is equivalent to gassing, shooting or starving entire nations within their grasp?

By: JohnWatkins

JohnWatkins — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:51:27 +0000

@U, I think you hit it on the head saying,
“The discussion I was in was ‘If Apple did the same thing Microsoft did, should it be marked bad, the same way Microsoft was.’ ”
But since nobody bought your assertion that “Apple did the same thing Microsoft did,” you were really talking to yourself in your “discussion.”
Perhaps this is our ‘hurd” mentality.

By: gplawhorn

gplawhorn — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:52:25 +0000

Microsoft has followed Apple for decades, but reading your article put it all together for me, a la “Twister.”

Apple is Bill Paxton’s Bill Harding character. Apple has a feeling for the sky, and nothin’ gives Mac-heads (think Dusty) a better feeling than watchin’ Apple watch the sky: “We got greenage!”

Microsoft is Cary Elwes’ Jonas Miller character. As Jo said, “He’s got no instincts.” Jonas watches to see what Bill will do, and then does that.

Hopefully it won’t end with a radio tower ramming through Microsoft’s front windows and taking out Eddie the driver.