iPod Saves Mushroom Picker From Certain Death. Zune Nowhere To Be Found.

How do you compete with that? How do you compete with a lost mushroom picker shining a big, glowing Apple into the sky like he's expecting either Batman, Bono or Steve Jobs himself to swoop down from the skies and point him to the access road, a patch of mushrooms and a bunch of free iTunes downloads?

That right there is some funny writing.

So I guess they really are not trying as hard as they could to sell the Zune. If Microsoft was really trying to sell a sexy digital consumer product like the iPod they might want to stop thinking like well Microsoft. My Xbox 360 is much more Mac freindly than a Zune would be.

So why can Apple make a cross platform music player but Microsoft can't?

They can, but they don't want to.

Next question?

Feh, none of these new-fangled gizmos can lay a hand on my Zire 71: not only can I listen to cross-platform music, AND attract low-flying aircraft with the brightly backlit screen, but I can balance my checkbook, read a novel, and check my email, among other things - can an Ipod or Zune do all that?

So why can Apple make a cross platform music player but Microsoft can't? That is my question. I love digital music and I should be Microsoft's target audiance but I am down with OSX and can't use a Zune because of it.

If only he had the Zune's big, bright, 3" screen, he might have been rescued sooner. :)

Harvey

Editor, Zunerama

My question is what kind of person goes off mushroom picking alone in the woods and what do they listen to on their iPod? I mean what is propper mushroom hunting music? Hootie, Phish, The Dead?

Oh yeah and Zune still hates Mac OSX.

Yeah, that's cool and I do that too. I navigate my way to bed with a cell phone backlight. My point is he didn't have DS or a zune or a psp or whatever with him while he was lost in the woods, or, at least, that's not what the article says. He had an ipod. Kind of a weird item to have while mushroom picking, and I can't even imagine listening to headphones while I was hiking, but whatever. It's that essential. You even take it mushroom picking.

These days most eletronics has fancy bright lights. I've used the blue glow of my cell phone to flag down my wife while in a crowd in the dark. I'm sure Zune is backlit as well.

Actually here in Kitsap County we are prone to power outages due to windstorms and gremlins. I used my iPod and DS Lite to get around our house until we could get a fire and candles going. Also have went down underneath the house and flipped circut breakers by using my DS Lite as a light source.