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Originally Posted by mszunefan
1.) Zune Insider was not the first to tell us of this...way to keep up Cesar.
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FCC filings are not product announcements - they're essentially product leaks that seem to happen when companies don't file the right documents to keep the tests private.
Let's say Cesar was to say "Hey guys, we have a 120 GB Zune coming...but I can't tell you anything about it other than the fact that it's 120 GB." You know full well he'd be raked across the coals for that - Microsoft will announce the Zune 120 when they're ready to talk about it. And, historically, Zune Insider hasn't been a place for new product announcements, at least not things that are up on Zune.net first.
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Originally Posted by mszunefan
2.) Its 40 gbs less than its competitor and will most likely be in black only. Also with no features this looks like nothing more than a struggle from a dying animal.
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I agree that it's not a good thing for the Zune to not match the size of the biggest iPod, but I think it's a very good thing that they only have ONE size for the hard-drive based Zune. When the Zune 80 came out, it had the highest-capacity hard drive that was available on the market that fit into the thickness they designed. It looks like now that same thickness can accommodate a 120 GB drive, so we get a 50% boost in storage but the Zune stays compatible with all the accessories for the Zune 80. That's critical.
What happens if Microsoft were to release a thicker Zune with a bigger hard drive? All the accessory makers groan because they have to make new accessories for the thicker Zune - that's not a big problem for the market-leading iPod, but when you're the "little guy" in the market you don't want to give your partners any excuse to give up on your product. If you make things difficult, or increase their customer service costs, they might walk away from your product.
As for the colour, why wouldn't it be at least black and red like the Zune 80 is now? And why do you think it will have no new features? We don't know that, because the FCC documents don't tend to talk about features, they just talk about specifications. If this is just a new product in the current generation of Zunes, a Zune 120 identical to the Zune 80 in every way but size, then maybe it won't have any new features. Or maybe it's part of a new generation of products that will have new features? We don't know.
As for your "struggle of a dying animal comment", that's just pure ignorance talking. You seem to think that consumer technologies should come out with new versions every six months or something. What planet does that happen on? The 2nd gen Zune came out in November 2007. There were a few minor software/firmware updates until the spring, when they release a very big software & firmware update that added new features, fixed a lot of bugs, etc.
There are rumours about something new coming in the fall - we don't know what it is, but it's clear that the Zune team continues to move the product forward on a regular basis. No one launches a product then four to six months later launches a new version of that product - that just isn't done, and for you to expect that shows your ignorance of how things really work.
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