The Zune hits the market

The Zune became available in the US, Microsoft seems to attempt to compete with Apple more directly. The Zune got a mixed response, while it does have some interesting features which the Ipod lacks, it also lacks some features which the Ipod has. The Zune is available in three colors, black, white and brown (Brown is a most surprising choice). The Zune is available in only one seize which is 30GB and FM Tuner is build something that has to bought for an Ipod. The Zune further allows to share its play-lists with other Zune players and Xbox 360s these are features which are unavailable for the Ipod. Further it allows many different background pictures, which seems to be very similar to the concept that is available on the Xbox 360. This is supposed to allow for more individualism, while actually allowing for nothing but controlled individualism. It has a fairly large 3-inch color screen which allows for watching video files with fairly great comfort. Further Microsoft announced that the software on the Zune can be updated which means, that the areas in which the Zune finishes behind the Ipod which is mainly software related might be added later, or as Microsoft formulated the Zune 'evolves'.

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