So I recently got a Zune… I wasn’t even shopping for a portable music player but a college buddy emailed me out of the blue with a link to a sale on Buy.com where they were selling the gen 1 30GB Zunes for under $100. I figured at that price it was worth buying for nothing more than a portable hard drive.
In the short time I’ve had it I decided it’s easily one of the best portable media players you can buy. I’m not even joking when I say it’s easier to use than an iPod. No snazzy click wheel but if you can understand how to operate the prize crane at the arcade you can use a Zune.
Wirelessly syncing with the collection on my PC is an amazing feature (one which I’m told was just barely added to the software) even better is the fact that like my Xbox Live account, which has an online presence where you can see what I’ve played and when, I now have an online Zune presence which will tell you what I’ve been listening to, what my favorite songs are and how often I play them.
This is the kind of cool features that makes me praise the 360 and leaves me feeling like every other console is archaic by comparison… similarly without this kind of feature available on the iPod or Zen I’m left wondering if I would have been as excited about those products had I purchased one on sale instead?
I’m not a fan of Windows or any of Microsoft’s closed source bloat ware really, but when they enter the gaming and music markets and start delivering features that really bring something new and valuable, it’s hard to ignore.
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