Caption this photo of an odd Apple iPod – Microsoft Zune juxtaposition that was shot by MacDailyNews reader Larry Fransson on December 29, 2006 at a Costco store in Tukwila, WA (a suburb south of Seattle):
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Reading zune tang’s posts is like hearing the same joke over and over. Maybe it was funny the first time but hearing the same joke a second, third or fourth time is not funny. It is like watching a toddler do something that causes the adults to laugh. As soon as the toddler notices the adults being amused by his antics he keeps doing them over and over trying to keep them laughing but of course it is not funny twice. The toddler, being merely a toddler, does not realize why the adults quite laughing. We can easily forgive the toddler for his immaturity. Grow up zune tang.
Not alone!
Same exact situation at Costco in Salt Lake City, UT.
Go iPod!
We get more profit margin on the iPods, so send those cheap ass Zunes back to Redmond and leave the display. Those that think they want Zunes will be buying iPods and it will be a win win situation.
They put the sugary cereals on the bottom shelf so 4 year olds can see them better, too.
Welcome to the free-gift-with-purchase.
“Zune – if you can’t reach the iPod.”
Welcome to the (Zune) “no show.”
This is MircoSteals lasted attempt to copy Apple. Those are really Zunes in those top boxes. Microsoft is hoping to capture some of the iPod halo effect.
mmmm, be kind and let people think they are buying zunessssssss… silence, please.
This situation simply demonstrates what I’ve been saying all along.
Just as Microsoft wrote the original Mac OS, they also wrote all the iPod software as well. So it only makes sense to stack the iPods on top of a Microsoft display….
Ouch, that iMac just toppled over & hit me in the head!
Joe “Buster” Blow gets it. Terrific comments as always. Never get tired of the “Zune Tang tells the same joke over and over” post again and again. Keep posting!
Welcome to the Social.
Caption: Microsoft’s Zunes sold out due to overwhelming demand. Anyone want to buy a whatcha callit also ran?
The Enderle Who Stole Macworld
Every macmac in San Francisco liked Macworld a lot…
But the Enderle, who worked just north of the bay, Did NOT!
The Enderle hated Macworld! The whole Macworld season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his ass was too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his brain was two sizes too small.
But, whatever the reason, his brain or his crack,
He stood there Macworld Eve, hating the Mac,
Staring down from his cubicle with a sour, Enderle frown
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.
For he knew every macmac way down in Frisco
Was busy now, anticipating the next kind of nano.
“And they’re booting their MacBooks!” he snarled with a sneer,
“Tomorrow is Macworld! It’s practically here!”
Then he growled, with his Enderle fingers nervously drumming,
“I MUST find some way to stop Macworld from coming!”
For, tomorrow, he knew all the Mac-Jills and Mac-Jacks
Would wake bright and early. They’d rush for their Macs!
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
That’s one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
Then the macmacs, young and old, would sit down to an iChat.
And they’d chat! And they’d chat! And they’d CHAT! CHAT! CHAT! CHAT!
They would chat about X-Serves, and the new Quad Duo Mac.
Which the Enderle couldn’t stand, no, no more of that!
And THEN They’d do something he liked least of all!
Every macmac down in San Fran, the tall and the small,
Would stand close together, with their iPods all swinging.
They’d stand hand-in-hand. And the macmacs would start singing!
They’d sing! And they’d sing! And they’d SING! SING! SING! SING!
And the more the Enderle thought of this great Macworld-Sing,
The more the Enderle thought, “I must stop this whole thing!”
“Why, for twenty five years I’ve put up with it now!”
“I MUST stop this Macworld from coming! …But HOW?”
Then he got an idea! An awful idea!
THE ROB ENDERLE GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
“I know just what to do!” The Enderle laughes till he cries.
And he made a quick Apple CEO disguise
And he chuckled, and clucked, “What a great Enderle goof!”
“With this turtleneck shirt, I’ll look just like the doof!”
“All I need is a Superpass…” The Enderle looked around.
But, since Superpasses are scarce, there was none to be found.
Did that stop the old Enderle…? No! The Enderle simply said,
“If I can’t find a Superpass, I’ll make one instead!”
So he got out his scanner and booted his Dell
It wasn’t a good fake, but would work just as well.
Then he loaded some sacks and some old Gateway bags
In a broken down Pacer with expired tags
Then the Enderle said, “Start damn it!” and the car rolled down
Toward the hotels where the macmacs lay a-snooze in the town.
Bricks make a good foundation.
Part 2 Found this on http://www.yourmaclife.com/article.php/20061215065548315
All their windows were dark. Fog filled the air.
All the macmacs were dreaming Mac dreams without care
When he came to the first little hotel on the square.
“This is stop number one,” the old Enderle Claus hissed
And he snuck in the back door, empty bags in his fist.
He got lost only once, got off the wrong floor
Then he picked the lock the first hotel door
Where the little Mac swag bags all hung in a row
“These bags,” he grinned, “are the first things to go!”
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile almost black,
Around the whole room, and he took every Mac!
iPods! And iTrips! And Airport Extremes!
A whole box of iSocks, even the greens!
Then the Enderle, beaming with pride
Opened the window and tossed them outside
Then he slunk to the server and shut down iChat!
Disconnected the iSight so the screen would be black
He cleaned out the hard drives, quick as a wink.
Why, that Enderle even crashed the iSync!
Then he stuffed all the Macgear into his sack.
“And NOW!” grinned the Enderle, “I’ll grab the iMac!”
The Enderle grabbed the computer, and he started to shove
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and he saw a small gurl!
Cindy-Lou macmac, who was fluent in Perl.
The Enderle had been caught by this tiny macmac daughter
Who’d got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
She stared at the Enderle and said, “Mister Steven, why,
Why are you taking our iMac? WHY?”
But, you know, that old Enderle was so smart and so slick
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
“Why, my sweet little tot,” the fake CEO lied,
“There’s a CD in this iMac that won’t burn on one side.”
“So I’m taking it home to my workshop, my dear.”
“I’ll fix it up there. Then I’ll bring it back here.”
And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head
And he got her a drink and he sent her to bed.
And when Cindy-Lou macmac went to bed in her gown,
He went to the window and threw the Mac down!
Then the last thing he took was the brand new Mac Pro!
“Let them try to create the next Finding Nemo!”
Then he went out the window, himself, the old liar.
Of their cables he left nothing, but some defective FireWire.
And the one peripheral that he left by the bed
Was a an obsolete mouse whose circuits were dead
Then he did the same thing to everyone’s room
Leaving nary a modem, not even a Zoom
It was quarter past dawn… All the macmacs, still asleep
All the macmacs, still a-snooze. When he packed up his heap,
Packed it up with their iPods! Their cables! Their software!
The printers! And the burners! The card readers and hardware!
Two hundred feet up! Up the side of Coit Tower,
He rode with his load and a feeling of power!
“Pooh-Pooh to the macmacs!” he was Enderle-ish-ly humming.
“They’re finding out now that no MacWorld is coming!”
“They’re just waking up! I know just what they’ll do!”
“Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
Then the macmacs down in Frisco will all cry Boo-Hoo!”
“That’s a noise,” grinned the Enderle, “That I simply MUST hear!”
So he paused. And the Enderle put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the glow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow…
But the sound wasn’t sad! Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn’t be so! But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Frisco! The Enderle popped his eyes!
Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every macmac down in Frisco, the tall and the small,
Was singing! Without any iPods at all!
He HADN’T stopped Macworld from coming! IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And the Enderle, with his pundit-feet ice-cold in the fog,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: his brain all agog
“It came without iPods! It came without Macs!”
“It came without laptops, or conference tracks!”
And he analysed three hours, till his analyser was sore.
Then the Enderle thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Macworld,” he thought, “doesn’t come from the Apple store.”
“Maybe Macworld…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
And what happened then…?
Well…in old San Francisco they say
That the Enderle’s small brain grew three sizes that day!
And the minute his ass didn’t feel quite so tight,
He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light
And he brought back the iPods! Mighty Mice and the Macs
And he… …HE HIMSELF…! The Enderle got in on the chats!
“Oops. Looks like we zuned the display…”
Too much fun.
A pod at crossed social “porpoises.”
For the musically minded –
Composition of structure and pitch, organized by dominance hierarchy.
For the buff-head and now boring bozo, Zune Tang –
Social position of the sub-social and the social status form social conflict.
or, as the sales guy said –
“We thought it was ‘juxta good position’ to put em.”
Happy New Year to all the people at Apple throughout the world.
Happy New Year to MDN and staff.
and
Happy New Year to all MDN posters, yeah even the trolls as well,
you guys n’ gals have given us all a good laugh and advice in 2006.
All the best for 2007
Social revolution? Yeah, right. But for now, we see that the Zune has one potential marketing skill: a cushy box!
And here are those other guys. Great to get in case there are no more Creative Zens left.
“iPod Takes Boardwalk and Park Place.”
this is stupid. The Zune wasn’t even released a month and everyone thinks the ipod is so superior.
hm, pros and cons anyone?
Zune:
bigger screen / resolution
music sharing / wi-fi
wallpaper feature
smartradio
lets you see what others are listening to
message others across the Community from your own Zune
now what does the ipod have?
nothing that the Zune doesn’t already have.
the reason the ipod is popular? cmon, it was the first mp3 player to offer a ton of file size space to hold your music.
and one more thing.
its stupid to say the ipod is still better. last time i checked, the ipod is still less in face value to a Zune, what can the ipod offer that can contest with the value of a Zune? or even better? or at all? if i remember correctly, Apple usually hits the dirt against Microsoft. the ipod took what, over 5 years to become popular? the Zune is already popular just from the fact of being the ipod’s competition. in one month.
sorry, ipods lose. because customers want what everyone else has.
“Stand appears to be unstable, Microsoft says it will issue a patch on Tuesday of next month.”
Caption:
“Welcome to the door stops — priced to move!”
Zune owns icrap hands down.
http://www.idont.com
stop being sheep
Financial Times article headline last week was:
“Apple unphased by the march of Zune”
Who were they kidding?!?
As the picture shows, the “march” lasted all of 2 days while MS employees and friends rabbitis and relations were conned into buying Zune.
It’s more like a meltdown than a march.
I have to say most of the people on this thread are like children: iPod’s better, pause not – Zune’s rocks … and the quibbling just goes on and on.
Post and say why one is better than the other. I like the post by Zunehacker. Apple is better and Microsoft sucks is not a reason.
Caption: “iPod, Zune, what’s the difference?”
Zunehacker:
Yes the zune has a larger screen than the video iPod – althought the same number of pixels. Therefore, the screen size is negated by its fuzzier image quality.
Sorry…