Mossberg and Pogue on the Zune

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Two of the most popular tech columnists, the NYT’s David Pogue and the WSJ’s Walt Mossberg, each smacked Microsoft’s new Zune music player in reviews today. I’ve already given five reasons why Zune won’t topple the iPod. Here are a couple more. Mossberg: “The hardware feels rushed and incomplete. It is 60% larger and 17% heavier than the comparable iPod.” Pogue: “What looks like an iPod scroll wheel, though, is a fakeout. It doesn’t turn, and it’s not touch-sensitive. Instead, it’s just four buttons hidden under the compass points of a plastic ring.” And my personal favorite reason, the Zune has no podcast management or audiobook capability.

Nov 9, 2006 | Comments Off | Tags: , , ,

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Writer Melik Kaylan has an op-ed in the WSJ today about the Borat movie. (I’m convinced Kaylan only wrote the article so he could use the word “coprophagy,” which I had to look up, but that’s another story.) The article criticizes Borat née Sacha Baron Cohen for his “bullying nihilism.” Kaylen first immunizes himself by writing that “Mr. Cohen has made it uncomfortable for anyone to declare publicly their dislike of Borat without sounding like the enemy of fun[.]” If you criticize Kaylen’s view, then you’re being a bully, too, or worse, a sheep. I’ll take my chances. I can certainly understand how folks with conservative sensibilities could find Borat crude and unfunny. But Cohen is as much a nihilist bully as Allen Funt was. Bonus: Russia bans the Borat movie.

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