"A 120 GB music player costs $30,000 to fill using iTunes"
Apparently these words were spoken by Wes Moss; a "Certified Financial Planner" (which, by the way, is a trademarked name for some reason) who wants you to buy a ZunePass for only fifteen dollars a month! Check your Myspace login page if you haven't seen this massive banner ad that appears to have taken the place of the Bruno marketing campaign.
Is it just me, or is this the stupidest advertisement for a music service that has ever surfaced on the internet? Zune and Microsoft must be idiots if they think that people actually buy all of their music- let alone know and like enough artists to buy 120 gigabytes worth. This is the 21st century; nobody lives under a rock, and anybody with half a brain can download music if their heart desires to do so. On top of that, the reason that music players have such massive storing capacity is because people put their TV shows, movies, and photos on them as well as music/music videos. I have an 80 gig iPod filled with all sorts of crap from my high school years (including two seasons of Rob & Big), and I'm not even close to filling that sucker up.
Now let's dig a little deeper into the ZunePass system. A couple of friends have it, and they think it is so awesome because they get to download unlimited amounts of music. Oh, but there's a catch. You only get to keep 10 songs per month. In reality, this $14.99 service is charging almost $1.50 per song, whereas iTunes only charges 99 cents. The "unlimited" songs are basically sub-par quality streams from the Zune system that you could essentially just play off of Myspace players for free. Not to mention the fact that not every artist is available for download, which becomes a little annoying after searching for five different things to listen to and coming up short every single time.
Obviously people are scrambling to try and figure out a way to keep the music industry profitable, but the ZunePass system is flawed. If you're going to pay fifty cents a day for this service, you should know what you are paying for. Maybe I'm just an Apple snob, but I'm also not an idiot. Some things are just too good to be true.
Is it just me, or is this the stupidest advertisement for a music service that has ever surfaced on the internet? Zune and Microsoft must be idiots if they think that people actually buy all of their music- let alone know and like enough artists to buy 120 gigabytes worth. This is the 21st century; nobody lives under a rock, and anybody with half a brain can download music if their heart desires to do so. On top of that, the reason that music players have such massive storing capacity is because people put their TV shows, movies, and photos on them as well as music/music videos. I have an 80 gig iPod filled with all sorts of crap from my high school years (including two seasons of Rob & Big), and I'm not even close to filling that sucker up.
Now let's dig a little deeper into the ZunePass system. A couple of friends have it, and they think it is so awesome because they get to download unlimited amounts of music. Oh, but there's a catch. You only get to keep 10 songs per month. In reality, this $14.99 service is charging almost $1.50 per song, whereas iTunes only charges 99 cents. The "unlimited" songs are basically sub-par quality streams from the Zune system that you could essentially just play off of Myspace players for free. Not to mention the fact that not every artist is available for download, which becomes a little annoying after searching for five different things to listen to and coming up short every single time.
Obviously people are scrambling to try and figure out a way to keep the music industry profitable, but the ZunePass system is flawed. If you're going to pay fifty cents a day for this service, you should know what you are paying for. Maybe I'm just an Apple snob, but I'm also not an idiot. Some things are just too good to be true.
Submitted by: Kelly Mason
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