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i don't think so
Nice post, thank you.
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i don't think so
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Zune Slogan Idea
Seriously, people should understand where Microsoft is taking music or not taking it.
It is clear where the music industry wants to take things - momentarily rented music. You pay per play. No vinyl. No CD. No archival media at all. Anyone anywhere in the world wants to play music, an industry exec must first be compensated before the music is played. The consumer is allowed the opportunity to buy the right to listen to that piece of music, one time, during a single span of time - say a six-hour window - after which the right expires. Perfect.
Microsoft likes this idea. Lines up well with their culture and traditional role as corporate mugger, extortionist and consumer rapist. Also very consonant their vision of consumers as witless clowns who deserve nothing better than being having their heads cracked on a curb and their wallets pulled from their back pockets and, hey, while you're face down on the sidewalk . . . Consumer choice? Not if we get to the manufacturers, baby. Steve, hold asshat's shoulders. Quit your blubbering, clown. You love it when we take your ass like this, don't you, don't you, donkey boy? Scream for me, bitch, scream! . . . You get the picture.
MSFT will sell out the consumers, the manufacturers, the artists and even the record industry executives if they smell an advantage. They've already sold out the other manufacturers of portable audio devices and PC manufacturers by giving Universal the piracy levy. The record cartel will start suing them for money on hardware sales and on music sales - all of which will make downloadable music even more expensive. They are hoping this will make Apple's sales model untenable and press them to break their 99 cent download deal. The consumers somehow have only been partially sold out but it is clear Microsoft will deliver the temporary rental model to the recording industry cartel if they get something out of it.
All of this can be communicated compactly, riffing off the fact that MSFT has already figured out a way to time-bomb shared music. Only a matter of time until they're selling time-bombed music.
'Zune Today: Making Music Disappear - Zune Tomorrow: Pay for Every Play'
Something like that . . .
Sibilious
Welcome to 'Everyone Knows You Are An Asshole Now'
Welcome to 'Everyone Knows You Are An Asshole Now'
Its Awesome to make fun of something that sucks
I want to see more funny things being posted about Microshit's products. You can't say "Asshole" when someone makes perfectly valid point. To market a product on the hopes of getting strangers together to share music wirelessly, only to stamp your files as Microsofts property with their DRM is something that more people should want to make fun of. I want to make a corny little site to complain about how much Powerpoint sucks. I'm sorry, but I had to do a business presentation at work, I used Keynote and a Mac, then a week later had to use a PC and powerpoint, it was the first time I wanted to just quit and find another job, its funny how there may be someone that may want to reply to this and say, "well I don't think so, my Windows PC is great, I'm a smart Windows user, never had a virus.. no spyware" - I want to laugh at Microsoft a little more. If this site keeps at least 2 Zunes from being sold I'm all for it. But really, we should all finally realize that Microsoft has forced us on thier utter crap for over a decade. I don't think the company is terrible, I just think that there should be more acknowledgement of the fact that their products are generally pretty terrible. MSNBC compared the Zune to a 2 year-old grayscale iPod, someone thought this was a good idea? These kinds of decisions make me laugh. Forcing terrible products on people, Geez, if I were to buy a Car, but Chevy went ahead and cut a deal with every car manufacterer, and said, "You have to use our Chevy Cavalier engine", So every engine bay is licensed to Chevy, you buy a BMW M3, with its nice interior, but a Chevy Cavalier engine. How would other products be if they were like Microsofts? I heard someone recently say, Its not owning a PC that makes for a bad experience, its owning a PC that runs Windows. Microsoft deserves credit for giving a lot of money to Charity, and that's about it. This should pretty much be the only thing in the news. Like what Bill is doing in Africa, building schools and such. But one dollar goes to Universal from the Zune? I would be more excited if 1 dollar went to a school being built in Africa.
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/12/13/019241.shtml
Re awesomeness
Hey Anon: I'm not sure whether the poster you respond too was aiming his epithet at me/this site, or whether it's a suggestion for a Zune slogan, one suggesting that possessing a Zune makes the holder recognizable as the hole of an arse. So I'm not sure which "side" s/he's on.
In any case, you (no surprise!) have my agreement re MS's lousy products. And Keynote vs PowerPoint – aye yi yi, we can honestly toss all Apple vs MS fanhood out the window, comparing only the capabilities and merits of the products themselves, and any honest judge will agree that Keynote glaringly exposes PowerPoint as an arse-ugly, crude, outdated pail of sewer leavings.
The official PowerPoint slogan: "We don't have to put any work into this, because everyone has to use it anyway."
I do disagree with you on whether MS itself is "terrible": yes, I say. Its criminal record clinches that for me. Also, watch out for misleading items like "what Bill is doing in Africa, building schools and such". Bill and his Foundation are not Microsoft. Microsoft is not building schools in Africa; there's no praise due MS there.
What MS is doing in Africa is its darndest to derail the $100 laptop project and open source in general, two broad initiatives offering the planet's best hopes for bringing the power of the IT revolution to the developing world. Damn those Africans if they think they're going to take part in the modern world without paying the Microsoft tax!
This is true.
Well I guess was just trying to say something not-so-so-bad about MS, but you are correct, its just not valid to do so. So, yeah, I do agree that MS's is entirely Terrible.. Good point about the 100 laptop project. Kudos to this site too. My ultimate point in resonse to the dude that may have been calling you an Ass (which is how I read the comment), is that we who like to surround ourselves with better products that work, need more places to rant about our life-wasting experiences of being forced to deal with crappy products that don't work, or don't make sense, made by a particularly rich, crappy, and unoriginal company. And....What is so incredibly great about this site, is that it can precisely make fun of a product that comes in the color crap made by that company. Here was my quick contribution to to correctly market the Zune when it was launched.
http://web.mac.com/mergeculture/iWeb/Zune/Zune%20Buyers%20guide.html
Re: This true
Humor! That's the tool that works. The more I see of these "internets" things, the more I realize that fevered outrage, rants, screeds, and other steam-venting just doesn't have a great effect on the intended targets. Humor works better.
In theory, anyway. All I'm missing is the ability to be funny. Working on that!
I wasn't aware of the page you linked. Thanks! Will add that to the main page.
Fresh new slogans. "Next time it just may sync!" -Microsoft Zune
A clever print ad: "MySpace is cool, and iPods are cool too. This is what we mean by 'social' get it?" -Microsoft Zune
My runner up: "Sqeeze my poop and watch it squirt!" - Microsoft Zune
Or: "Zune Marketplace: If your lucky, you'll only have to reinstall it twice. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas."
or: "Look Dad got me Vista, and Mom got me the Zune! Which one should I use? - poor Kid
Oh I can't stop.
Heh.
I like "Look Dad got me Vista, and Mom got me the Zune! Which one should I use?" – a nice reminder that the two don't work together.
Though my chuckles there will be short-lived; I'm sure that Vista (at least one of its hefty handful of versions) will support the Zune from the end of January.
But inspired by your comment title, I propose a new slogan:
"Syncing? No. Sinking? Fast."
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