Zune on CNN: 'May I show you my new Shuffle?'
16th Nov 2006, 09:55 GMT
Sure, Microsoft is being pragmatic about its short-term chances against the iPod, but this one had to sting a little over in the Zune offices. Here was the exchange at the end of a CNN segment on Zune yesterday. (Also see the YouTube video.) CNN host Soledad O'Brien: "May I show you my new Shuffle? ... Hello! Look at this. It weighs nothing. It literally is the size of a matchbook and weighs that. $70-something bucks! [Shifts attention to Zune.] So why would I buy that heavy -- although I get a lot more songs, obviously, and the wi-fi." New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin: "And you get the video. You know, Microsoft in the end, I'm sure, will come out with something, I don't know if it will be that pretty, but something ... [Stops himself as O'Brien clips the Shuffle to her lapel] ... Isn't that neat? Oh my God." CNN host Miles O'Brien, gesturing to Zune: "Why don't they get some decent design people to make things look better? I mean, it's clunky." Sorkin, groaning: "No comment." (Via Michael Gartenberg and Gary Stein.) More on Zune: The S.F. Chronicle's Dan Fost reports on the genesis of the Zune name. Mary Jo Foley: "It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista." CNet News.com's Ina Fried test drives the Zune software.