Out of a Jobs? (Great title I think)

The Zune vs. the iPod looks like its going to be the big technology story over the next couple of months, at least until the console wars take over and from what I can see Steve Jobs is going to eat his words; when Newsweek asked him if he was worried about the Zune he said “In a word, no…” because apparently the wireless sharing feature “…takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable,” and it’s a good point, people want speed, but if its something they use and think is useful they are going to spend the few extra seconds to send it across the wireless.

The Zune’s wireless sharing isn’t really a new idea, since the release of Bluetooth phones people have been sending songs, photos and videos to one another wirelessly, in some public places like cinemas you can’t get peace with the constant ‘Would you like to accept’ messages, but what the Zune has done is make it an integral feature that people will (they hope) find easy to use and will find innovative. Microsoft’s biggest mistake will be if they follow their usual approach and make it something complicated, but the Zune is defiantly something different from Microsoft. Just look at the Zune, they have seen were Apple went right and not only replicated it but made it something unique, the Zune actually looks good, it’s a nice change, I myself have fallen in love with the brown coloured Zune and I am just fed up looking at the shiny white iPod cover this the metal back that’s going to be scratched to death as soon as you break the seal on the box.

The thing about the Zune though is, the thing that will sell it, is that it isn't really a digital music player, its a lot more, its a entertainment platform and its part of the Microsoft ecosystem, I can go onto my Windows PC and download music from the Zune store, go play my Microsoft Xbox, connect my Zune up to it and listen to my music while playing, maybe five minutes in I decide I want to listen to The Kooks, but I haven't put it on my Zune, not a problem, I'll log onto Xbox live, quickly buy the song and get back to playing without having to get up. Microsoft don't make products anymore they make perphials for your Microsoft Windows Life.

I think Steve Jobs will look down at his iPod on November 14th (the Zune release date) and think “Oh shit, Bill did it again”

Bytez According To Me

Welcome to this, the new up and coming blog which will no doubt become the centre of the web 2.0 phenomena and which will receive millions of page view per hours generating lots of money for me... or not, it could just be somewhere for me to attract people with similar views who would be interested in talking about things I like.

I have no real motive behind writing this other than I am completely in love with the way the internet has changed in the last few years, I remember the first time I used the internet maybe 12 years ago, I was only 7 but the whole idea behind it amazed me but for some reason the experience didn't live up to my expectations; I was basically stuck on a CompuServe portal and was able to look at a few pictures and run up a huge bill for my dad in about an hour. A few years later I used it again, I was a bit older, I could sort of work out what I could do, still pretty much stuck in the AOL UK content portal but it was a lot more fun, discovered chat rooms and msn messenger just before the rest of the people in my school and watched as my contacts list grew, and what amazed me more than being able to talk to strangers half ways around the world was that I was able to talk to my friends who lived a few miles away in a way I was infinitely more comfortable with, it expanded my horizons but strengthen my existing relationships.

While I was on messenger I didn't really surf the web, I couldn't find anything to interest me, until one day I found some amazing, which showed me how amazing the internet could be, which fulfilled every ounce of promise the whole idea behind this interconnected world ever displayed to me and I wish I could say porn, but no it was something infinitely more exciting to me; Wikipedia, a beacon of knowledge which has provided me with more useless trivia and vague facts than any TV show, book or teacher, a site which could finally fulfill my desire for the obscure and my need for it to be free. The last few months my love of the internet has only increased and my love of one site has outshone any other, I’ve heard of people falling in love with companies before, Disney, Apple, even Tesco but I am just amazed and infatuated in a way I can’t explain with the pillar of the internet that is Google. I’m not sure if it’s the aesthetics, the technology, the philosophy or the impact on the internet but there is something about the company I can’t help but love and the Google’s recent acquisition of YouTube has only piqued my interest even more.

I don’t pretend to be an expert in any subject I ever talk about, although it will often seem like I think I am, but if anyone is interested in my thoughts or opinions be sure to call back and see what else I manage to spew out.