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Greedlast Saturday at 7:38 AM2 repliesview on HN

I maintain to this day that the Zune was one of the best designed hardware and software platforms I've ever used. Probably the only truly design forward product that MS ever produced.


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midnightclubbedlast Saturday at 7:48 AM

The Zune hardware was slick, particularly the solid state players. The music store worked great and their music licensing was so much better than Apple - $10 a month for unlimited streaming, unlimited downloads (rentals) to Zune devices and 10 free mo3 downloads to own.

Their only misstep was making one of their colorways poop brown! That and being too late to market with a phone that used the same design language

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sylenslast Saturday at 1:00 PM

The Zune software 2.0 remains the pinnacle of Microsoft design