Thursday, April 05, 2007

MS to ditch some DRM too.

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As is their wont - Microsoft saw what Apple did and thought to themselves: "well, we'd better hop on that ship before she sails!"

Still, encouraging news all around!

BTW: I've hefted and messed around with the Zune. Give it a pass. I found it to be slow, and you had to click the up and down buttons a quarzillion times to do anything. I know Apple has got the hottness locked down with their patented Click-wheel, but still - My Neuros was similar, but it had a smarter layout and you could skip ahead in the alphabet, which I couldn't figure out with the Zune. Maybe i'm dumb.

3 comments:

Myku said...

Cool update! Still diggin' the Neuros then? You know the iPod click-wheel can scroll faster through the alphabet if you just keep going in circles without stopping. I'm guessing the Nano's the same....

Dr. Confusion said...

Actually Mang, The Neuros is retired. I wore out the output jack such that I lost the right channel, and then the left channel went too.

I was about to take it to the shop to get some king of locking military spec. type of jack installed - when I powered up the neuros and the hard drive freaked out in a big way. From then on it hasn't turned on since.

So i'm saving my pennies to pick up a 30 GB iPod. T-money got a sexxy red nano and the ease of use is just too good. Add in one of these. and NOW you're talking!!

Myku said...

Nice! I've got the 30gig, and love it (except that 30gigs is not enough!!). I used to have a mic on my old mp3 player, though- I never really used it. Oh well. I did, however, invest in an FM transmitter and a little remote control as well. I use the remote when I'm walking around with the iPod in my pocket or in my bag- that way, if I go up to a store counter or run into someone I know, I can hit "pause" and start talking immediately without digging around for the Pod. Cheezy, I know.