{"id":5837,"date":"2011-11-27T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2011-11-27T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T16:02:11","slug":"yet-again-the-knowledge-of-zune-is-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/yet-again-the-knowledge-of-zune-is-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet again the knowledge of Zune is ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all the talk of the Facebook phone, a few sites have suggested that a Zuckerberg phone would be as much a folly as the Zune project from Microsoft. Of course the Zune wasn&#8217;t a huge seller in the marketplace (but it has many supports, myself included) but I would argue it helped Microsoft in other areas that are just as important:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A long time ago, I sorted myself out with a Zune HD \u2013 the final iteration of the Zune Media Players boasted a touch screen, an innovative new interface, a dedicated PC environment for syncing and managing media that wasn\u2019t Windows Media Player, a music store and all you can listen to subscription model that took in the Zune HD player, the PC, and the Xbox home console \u2013 looking back Zune brought in a huge amount of knowledge to Microsoft:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Redmond an education that many have missed. Perhaps knowledge is Facebook&#8217;s goal, and not sales? More thoughts over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ewanspence\/2011\/11\/27\/why-zune-might-give-facebook-a-direction-for-their-phone\/\">on Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all the talk of the Facebook phone, a few sites have suggested that a Zuckerberg phone would be as much a folly as the Zune project from Microsoft. Of course the Zune wasn&#8217;t a huge seller in the marketplace (but it has many supports, myself included) but I would argue it helped Microsoft in other areas that are just as important: A long time ago, I sorted myself out with a Zune HD \u2013 the final iteration of the Zune Media Players boasted a touch screen, an innovative new interface, a dedicated PC environment for syncing and managing media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,2245],"tags":[3411,3306,132,2246,258,2033],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-windows-phone","tag-facebook-phone","tag-forbes","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-phone-2","tag-xbox","tag-zune","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}