The Microsoft Zune is a typical 1.0 release for the Redmond heavyweight — clunky and plagued with problem — but could it emerge as a heavy smasher and the anti - iPod ? ComputerWorld ’s Mike Elgan thinks permit hackability in the Zune could thrust it to the top of the marketplace , giving it customizability and enhance its popularity . While he charge some coarse haterage at the first Zune , he points outlots of Zune hacksalready emerging . He also sees the possibility of a newer , looser Zune prevailing in the DAP market , predicting that “ Microsoft could make a Zune that ’s more worthy than the iPod , ” somehow dominating the marketplace like personal computer have barb - dunked Macs in marketplace ploughshare .
His hint for Zune hacking , leading to its world supremacy , after the jump .
rent hoi polloi transform the Zune into an Xbox game restrainer , a telecasting remote control , a portable presentation twist , a wireless microcomputer hard drive or a Vista gadget copycat . Give me a wireless keyboard and a Zune rendering of Pocket Outlook , and I ’ll never grease one’s palms another iPod . Build ClearType into Zune and make it the ultimate eBook reader ( and sell eBooks on Zune Marketplace ) .
But Mike , so far , the Zune is just as lock down as the iPod is , maybe even more so . Plus , the iPod has have such a awful head start here . By the time the next translation of the Zune is release , Apple will have an iPhone and a widescreen video iPod on the grocery . That ’s conk to be awfully hard to beguile up to , is n’t it ?
Zune : So you desire to be an iPod killer[ComputerWorld ]
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