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Re: [News] Zune File-sharing Less Than Promised

  • Subject: Re: [News] Zune File-sharing Less Than Promised
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:02:55 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Ian Hilliard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> 
>> I was in the local OFFICE DEPOT and the sales associate there told me that
>> the return rate of Zune sales was more than 50%. The major complaint
>> was... it's horrible, won't play any with Apple's iTunes...
>> 
>> This "restrict by artist" is just another nail in the coffin...
>> 
> 
> Hey, the shoe is on the other foot now, compared to; Linux is no good
> because it is not exactly the same as Windows or OO.o is no good because
> the occasional file doesn't open correctly.
> 

It's all about lock-in.  Microsoft do not grasp any other business
models.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.
		-- Bernard Levin

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