“The so-called squirting functionality of the first-gen Zune could come back in future Microsoft-powered devices such as PCs, tablets, smartphones and the Xbox 360 using near-field tech,” Electronista reports.
“Files could be beamed using NFC, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi Direct pairing, frequent rumor source MS_Nerd tweeted,” Electronista reports. “This would be yet another step in Microsoft’s attempt to unify the experience across its devices, with the first step being the Metro user interface.”
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OK who wants to go first. This is too good to pass up.
I can’t put my finger on it, but I find this squirting just so wrong, on the whole.
File squirting… This is what you can expect when a typical geek decides what features are exciting.
If I remember well, there was an interview with Steve when someone told him about this “squirting”; how cool it was when a boy can easily share a song with a girl by squirting it onto her Zune. Steve’s answer was, with the iPod, he doesn’t need to squirt anything; he just gives her one earbud, and they end up connected with 3 ft of wire.
All the geeks of this world are screaming at Steve’s ultra-low tech solution to this problem (“He’s only hearing the right channel, she’s only hearing the left channel!!”), ignoring the social and human aspect of it: when there is a wire connecting you, you are CONNECTED (more than just literally). When you squirt your song to your girl, you’re isolated by your headphones, she’s isolated by her headphones, you can’t know if she is listening to the same song, and even if she is, it is most likely NOT in sync with your Zune, so you can’t go “I love this part!”, not the least bit because you’d have to talk VERY LOUDLY, since she has both headphones on, which clearly isn’t all that romantic…
Squirting… a geek’s idea of cool (and possibly even romantic)…
got two words for ya – headphone splitter!
Spit or Swallow?… Oh wait, you said “splitter”!… My bad.
Well, Microsoft already HAS a geeky solution for the problem (squirting), so Zunes don’t need the headphone splitter. Neither to the iPods, since the non-geeks much prefer sharing their music the way Steve described (one earbud each). You don’t have to yell at your companion (she can actually hear you well, since she has one ear open), and then there is the wire that physically connects you. Not geek-certified, but surely more romantic than squirting, OR headphone splitter…
Nicely deconstructed.
Just a thought, 3 feet of earbud cord…. but if you each plug into an ear and then turn to face each other, your lips and hers are only about 12 inches apart….. Sounds social to me… 🙂
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Let’s not forget; the usual situation is: boy and girl sitting next to each other (on the bus/subway/bench/sofa…), he goes to give her an earbud, he pulls the one from the ear closer to her, so the cord, stretched to the far ear, makes them even closer. I’ve seen this numerous times on the NYC subway. I have no doubt, even Zune owners do the music sharing the same way, rather than squirting.
Sounds obscene. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
I would never walk in a room full of MS Geeks Squirting with their equipment with my mouth open and not covered up. On second thought, I should get a pair of swimming goggles just in case. lol
Squirting on Windows?
Your gonna need more Windex…..(and maybe some blinds).
Paper towels, tissues, towel or a bucket also.
Of all the available terms out there, Microsoft has to borrow “squirting” from the pornographic world to tout it as a feature in Windows. If anyone who does not know what squirting is, be free to visit the twilight zone of erotica.
Why did an image of Ballmer giving one of his calm and classy on stage presentations suddenly come to my mind when I read the headline?
“This would be yet another step in Microsoft’s attempt to unify the experience across its devices”
The user experience is already unified across their devices, it’s uniformly abysmal. A more worthy ambition would be to make the experience uniformly good across it’s devices.
Given the viruses of the MS world, this could bring a whole new generation to core wars.
I hear that they’re going to name it Microsoft Live Squirt for Windows Phone 7.5 XBox Edition
There is a Home and Professional version, too.
32 or 64 bit? 😛
“. . . squirting functionality of the first-gen Zune could come back in future . . .”
WHY??
Has anyone ever actually seen someone “squirt” in public and admit it?
MS fanbois squirt alone.
Never squirt in someone’s eye.
Ahh, love comes in squirts.
I once paid a lot extra for a girl that could squirt
I’ve always wondered whether Squirts for Sure would make a comeback.
Comeback. Did I just say that?
I did. Wow, this thread is getting seedy.
Seedy. Did I just say…. oh never mind.
Got to hand it to you, that was funny.
Did I just say hand it to you?
Yes I did, and then I fingered myself.
Wait….
Squirting transmitted viruses. No, stay away. Practice safe sharing.
I’m surprised that there isn’t already a Windows app that allows PC users to AirDrop with Lion users.
Squirting? Sounds like a great way to pass a virus!
. . . or spam
. . . and then have the virus squirt your bank account info back to me.
I refer back to the article where apple simply has “better taste” seriously who comes up with names over there!? wtf, they’re next tablet might as well be called the g-spot
haha the M$ G-Spot Professional 8 bit tablet!
I have a buddy who spends a lot of time listening to his zune in the bathroom. He claims he’s combing his hair, but I just know he is squirting songs in there……
lmao👆
Sometimes when I’m alone, I Google myself.