TackleAction!

The Zune should have been nothing more than a well executed mp3 sharing player. Imagine a gigabeat that broadcast your music to everyone and let you listen to other peoples music and bookmark it. For instance it could shuffle through all the music available in your wireless range. Imagine a dorm room, or college union; to people who thought this feature was great, the zune would truly be better than an iPod.

Instead, the Zune not only does a pretty crappy job of being social, it adds all kinds of features like a new store, new DRM, Xbox interactivity, etc. All of which confuse the one feature that could make the Zune better than the ipod, the social/sharing-ness.

Maybe the original vision of the zune was more ideal, and the record industry ruined it. But then maybe Microsoft should have just ditched the project (or, god forbid, fought back). But hey, they've pushed products from inferior and unused to inferior and with dominant market share before.

I better start converting my m4p's to m4a's. The zune supports those, right?