{"id":1703,"date":"2006-11-26T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2006-11-26T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T01:24:31","slug":"andy-ihnatko-disses-zune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/andy-ihnatko-disses-zune\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ihnatko disses Zune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cwob.com\/yellowtext\/blogheadshot.jpg\" alt=\"Andy I\" align=left \/><br \/>\nOld bud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwob.com\/\">Andy Ihnatko<\/a> completely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/technology\/ihnatko\/147048,CST-FIN-Andy23.article\">disses the Zune in a Chicago Sun-Times article<\/a> that begins &#8220;Avoid the Looney Zune&#8221; and ends &#8220;Microsoft gets music player all wrong.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Yikes, Mr. Gates all this and Vista too?<\/p>\n<p>Not that there aren&#8217;t non-iPod players that Andy thinks are competitive and fun to use. He likes several non-Apple products:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure. Toshiba&#8217;s Gigabeat player, for example, is far more versatile, it has none of the Zune&#8217;s limitations, and Amazon sells the 30-gig model for 40 bucks less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Companies such as Toshiba and Sandisk (with its wonderful Nano-like Sansa e200 series) compete effectively with the iPod by asking themselves, &#8216;What are the things that users want and Apple refuses to provide?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s bottom line: &#8220;Result: The Zune will be dead and gone within six months. Good riddance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old bud Andy Ihnatko completely disses the Zune in a Chicago Sun-Times article that begins &#8220;Avoid the Looney Zune&#8221; and ends &#8220;Microsoft gets music player all wrong.&#8221; Yikes, Mr. Gates all this and Vista too? Not that there aren&#8217;t non-iPod players that Andy thinks are competitive and fun to use. He likes several non-Apple products: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}