The Sun-Times Hammers the Zune

The Sun-Times’ Andy Ihnatko broke out the big lumber for his review of the Zune...

...the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face… The Zune is a square wheel, a product that’s so absurd and so obviously immune to success that it evokes something akin to a sense of pity… why (for the love of God) doesn’t it support podcasts? That’s pure insanity… You’ll find that the Zune Planet orbits the music industry’s Bizarro World, where users aren’t allowed to do anything that isn’t in the industry’s direct interests… The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure. Toshiba’s Gigabeat player, for example, is far more versatile, it has none of the Zune’s limitations, and Amazon sells the 30-gig model for 40 bucks less… Throw in the Zune’s tail-wagging relationship with music publishers, and it almost becomes important that you encourage people not to buy one… Result: The Zune will be dead and gone within six months. Good riddance.