The Dilemma Will Face Us All Zuner or Later

By Timmy Watson in News on Nov 18, 2006 3:15PM

We have been helped through many long lonely walks and nights with our iPod. We've found it therapeutic and necessary in many circumstances, and as you can tell, we are quite attached. We have dealt with a kid saying, "Wow, is that the oldest iPod ever?" and one has even broken on us already. Fortunately, that one was still under warranty. With this one, however, we were not so lucky. That's right folks, it's joining many before it in going to iPod heaven. We thought about finding a friend we didn't like too much, and suing them, but that evidently that doesn't work. As we contemplate our next move, we have found ourselves in quite the quandary.

This week we got hit by the onslaught of marketing by Microsoft for the new Zune and we must say we are quite intrigued. Lupe Fiasco had a free concert on Monday for the launch and Thursday night Little Ones kicked off the Zune "Big Music, Tiny Price" tour at Schubas. Microsoft, with all its boringness and monopolistic tendencies, has seemingly come out with a neat mp3 player.

It has not been without its criticisms, but we like the chocolaty goodness of the brown player and the screen is a decent size for some diggnation. The 30 GB hard drive is fine and it has a cool WiFi feature that allows you to share songs with other users. By share, they mean you can play the song 3 times or have it for 3 days, whichever comes first. It isn't compatible with iTunes, but there are ways around that.

So this is where you come in, dear reader. What do you think about the switch? Anything special we should know that could help us resolve this dilemma and get back to our avoidance of loud conversations on the train and our podcast obsession?