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September 10, 2008

Zune v. Ipod

by AltHippo @ 10:30 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

It would be easy to dismiss the Microsoft Zune player. In a time and place where the iPod dwarves everything around it, why second-guess a cultural icon?

I would say that both are engineering marvels. What isn’t clear to the observer is that the Zune API is a subset of the Xbox API. That means that, yes, it would be possible to port some of the games running on XBox to the Zune. I’m assuming that the 2d graphics are just an initial serving and the idea is to offer some variant of DirectX. That’s my assumption in the long term.

Meanwhile, the iPod has well… pretty much everything a geek could want. Maybe a slightly better audio codec? (I give a slight edge to the Zune in this regard.)

The point being: I’m glad these dudez at Wired haven’t written the Zune out completely. Maybe they’ll push the Zune engineers a bit. I’d like to see something come of this “Macrosoft Corp” or whatever it is their calling themselves.

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