36: Zune

Lots of people make fun of the Zune, Microsoft's short-lived challenge to Apple's iPod. But does it deserve such widespread ridicule??? Find out on today's episode of Desperate Acts of Capitalism!

Edited by Anne Henry

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune
https://medium.com/@shiriendamra/why-the-zune-failed-132784522ff0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44ly84e6EaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnoImD2KTBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A74b9ZWLV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LtY8a105XU
https://www.businessinsider.com/robbie-bach-explains-why-the-zune-flopped-2012-5?IR=T
https://www.silicon.co.uk/mobility/smartphones/tales-tech-history-microsoft-zune-210569
https://www.theverge.com/2012/5/14/3019100/zune-hardware-mistake-robbie-bach
https://slate.com/technology/2012/10/microsoft-zune-how-one-of-the-biggest-flops-in-tech-history-helped-revive-a-great-american-tech-company.html
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/16/microsoft-ends-zune-music-streaming-service-apple
https://gizmodo.com/actually-barack-obama-doesnt-use-a-zune-5102516
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qw5ax/zune-forever-the-diehards-still-obsessed-with-microsofts-colossal-failure
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/51578/the-man-behind-the-zune.html
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/j-allard-the-failures-of-the-zune-and-the-record-labels/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Allard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/10/03/zune-qa-with-microsofts-j-allard/

Music:
In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3906-in-your-arms
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Bathed in the Light by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3425-bathed-in-the-light
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