Looks like the Ellen DeGeneres show gave away a bunch of Microsoft Zunes (The #1 daytime show, Oprah, already did it with Apple’s iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition).
Note the lack of information about the draconian limits to Zune sharing (three times, then self-destruct – regardless of media source, ie. from a store or even a song you made yourself; all shared Zune content gets Microsoft’s 3-time-only-then-go-boom DRM), that the round thing there is a fake click wheel designed to fool people that it works like an iPod (it’s really just a four-way button), or the fact that the Zune Marketplace doesn’t even offer video content.
Note also that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American housefrau (or overestimating their size). Ellen’s studio full of carbo-loaded soccer moms go absolutely berserk; it’s like a Saturday Night Live skit. We can only pray that those studio bleachers are severely reinforced. Man, there’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on over at Ellen! Seriously, they really ought to call it The Ellen DeGeneres Farm Hour: two normal-sized humans in front of the camera and 300 cows behind it. No wonder our health insurance rates are astro-freakin-nomical.
One word: diet. Here’s another: exercise.
Anyway, after seeing that bizarre reaction to a piece of re-branded Toshiba crap, we hope they had medics on hand for the fainters or at least passed out cigarettes after the orgasmic excitement subsided. We didn’t see any squirting, but something was certainly going on:
So, whaddya think, can Microsoft fool the ignorant masses again (in which case, Steve Jobs would nip the whole thing in the bud PDQ) or will people not be so excited once they find out Zune’s many weaknesses?
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Will they be screaming this much when they all find out they’re getting the ‘brown’ one?
Just wait until the realize that NONE of the legal music services support it and they’ll have to wait to buy it from MicroSUX. Also, like someone else said, live audiences have cheerleaders just off camera that cue people to cheer, boo, whatever. Heck, I bet most of those folks thought they were getting free iPods and even called to say the got the new iPod to friends until they were quickly corrected. This thing is going to SO die when the next iPod with the wide screen, HD, Virtual click wheel hits.
Wonder how long it’ll be before we start seeing these on eBay? Tomorrow? Later today?
OH NO, A 150 over weight, white trash housewives running around with a ZUNE, that’ll kill the iPod.
LOL
I would hate to have the studio on the floor below Ellen’s with all those fat people jumping up and down like that upstairs. It must have been terrifying.
That looks hideously contrived.
there is something very perverse to give a not all together woman a not all together product – shame on you Microsoft
“Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner!”
No wonder there are more single than married adults now. If this is what today’s woman turns into after marriage… no thanks!
So is all this fat a product of feminism, our food industry, or…?
Zune… oh yeah… I was too grossed out by the women to be grossed out by the Zune (though it does).
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Just luurve the madness of it all ;]
Give it to me free and I’d be dropping my pants too, even if I binned it next day!
Anyway it’s a studio audience who’ve been amped up to squeal!
Ellen is a little Zuney…….
Hope she doesn’t squirt anyone.
I’m worried…
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devnull my thoughts exactly!
Has MS even developed a zune type jukebox to interface with the computer?
Hey when you’re on Welfare and have nothing else to do all day but watch or attend these daytime “hen party” shows, even a Zune is something to cheer about.
Ok, now for the important comments…
That Asian chick is hot!!!
The other bad side to this is that the luck women who got a Zune will have to pay the tax on it. LOL
cptnkirk
OK, I just watched this video and can’t see an audience going berserk. Just people clapping and jumping a little. What’s the deal MDN? This is just people responding to a free gift. I would have used a different word other than berserk. Maybe excited at the most. Berserk means “out of control”.
Never over estimate the average consumer.
I offer Windows as proof.
Zune may do well, depends on how the masses who already have an iPod treat those who are getting Zunes. Like getting the blue Keds when everyone else had the red ones, you hid the blue ones and pretended that your old man was out of work. You say anything before you admitted that your Mom bought you the ones that weren’t cool.
“The movies is so clear”
Ellen said it pays movies.
She wouldn’t lie, would she?
Oh wait she said it was cool too, so she’s a complete fraud.
They went crazy for the social networking part second only to the “getting one for free” part.
I think women for some reason like the idea of sharing, whereas us guys could give a fly crap about it.
That was disgusting. I’ve never seen so many fat ladies jump up and down.
Oi! I’d like to squirt something from my Zune to the Asian chick!
Ohhhh! Yeeeeeeah!
MDN: Again. Yeah! Squirt me again!
“That was disgusting. I’ve never seen so many fat ladies jump up and down.”
Too bad Tyra doesn’t give away some iPods…her audience is usually hot 20 year old model wannabes.
That asian girl who was repping Zune is hot.
She was the main attraction of the clip, IMHO.
Looks like Ellen’s talk show just jumped the shark.
/thinks ellen is cool.
//zune is not
///i like pie
Why do people like this obviously stupid oriental chick spout their nonsense as if they actually know something?
She says, “These things create a social network”.
Uh, what’s that you say? A social network?!!! How is squirting a song with an expiration date shorter than milk equal to a “social network”. I have this type of buzzword shit. She’s reading directly from the MS talking points.
And all of those dumb bi***es in the audience jumping up and down for having a “social network”? So, when they get home with their crap-colored brick , HOW EXACTLY ARE THEY GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT SOCIAL NETWORK?!!! Do all of the audience members live in an Ellen Lesbian commune or something? That’s one of the main problems with this highly overrated feature of the Zune. It’s not self-contained. It’s not a feature you are guaranteed to be able to use. It requires someone being nearby to you that:
A) Is also clueless enough to have a Zune
B) You know well enough to actually squirt something to or receive a squirt from
For all of their orgasmic hoopla, not one of those dumber-than-stumps women will ever do any squirting with their Zunes – either to or from.
And then, notice how the oriental chicks talk about the great “resolution”. Uh, yeah, it has the identical resolution to the iPod, you ignorant whore. But since it’s large it’s not as sharp. She’s equating dimensions with resolution! I can only think of one good use for her. She looks pretty good in those pants, and her face aint bad either. But anything taking a little thought and knowledge is something she should stay away from.
Well it’s a different strategy, I’ll give Microsoft that. I can’t see giving free zunes to every single person in the world as being particularly profitable though.