Zune shocker: They're better MP3 players than iPods
WinInfo | at | by Mike
And speaking of things that have rocked the Apple world this week, imagine the shock over in Cupertino when the Apple promoters (sorry, "reviewers") at the "Wall Street Journal" and "New York Times" actually wrote this week that Microsoft's oft-ridiculed Zune MP3 player is, in fact, a better device for digital music than Apple's ubiquitous iPod. That these reviewers ape a call I've been making this week as well is A-OK, because it's a simple fact: Yes, the Zune may lack much of the niceties of the wider iPod ecosystem, which includes a much broader range of functionality than anything possible with the Zune. But when it comes to music, especially new music discoverability, the Zune is the place to be. Funny how things come around, isn't it? Apple has spent so much time turning the iPod into an uber mobile device that it's left its core music-listening demographic behind.