Microsoft Zune - Abandoned History Ep. 14

What was supposed to be Microsoft's response to the iPod failed to catch on, but it's legacy lives on in nearly every Microsoft product today. What was the Zune? Why did it fail? Why am I asking you these questions? Find out today on this episode of Abandoned History!

[luiscastro]

I still have my Zune to this day I love it

[ShriektheMighty]

After my one and only ipod crapped out on me within a year of buying it, my dad refused to buy me another one, and got me a zune instead. I have never gone back. I have all three models of the zune and they all still work. I use my zune HD every day.

[informalnarwhals]

Microsoft already tried and failed on-demand music subscriptions? That's...tragic when you look at Pandora and Spotify now. We shoveled dollar bills at Apple for so long we were blind to features we were blessed with over a decade ago :(

[jamesbost]

The guardians of the galaxy scene is historical

[ZvZxlcVjaMu]

The Zune HD didn't get that name just from the HD radio feature, but because you could output HD video with the use of an accessory.

[manyamaggot]

250 dollars for the zune was not expensive when the same size ipos was 300 with way less features, do your research

[jagged]

Cool video. I had a zune in 2008 strictly because of the fm radio. I can’t remember if iPod didn’t offer radio, or it was crappy, but I rocked the zune because of that

[tyjmms]

I still have and use my zune 30gb original, zune 80gb and my zune hd 32gb.

My zune hd headphone jack spot crapped out, but it lasted forever and I got it used on Craigslist.

I love zune

[tbonesviddyzone]

I miss my zunes (i had like four over the years) so much.

[nobeac]

Zune had a great concept going. I wish it caught on better

[scottbrady]

I never knew the ram component in my zune hd was 128 mb. actually not much. it explains a lot of issues with slowness and buffering back in the day. The last time I was surfing the net on it might have been the summer of 15! also, the oled monitor allows the user 3 plus hours of playback on one charge, where apple led units crap out in an hour and a half.. (just don't fire up the FM radio!!)

[RetroJR]

Great video can't wait to see if you do Playstation Portable

[TexasADV]

I love my zunes. I have three and they are still running

[MichaelGrayxd]

Microsoft's not using Metro UI since 2012. It was called Modern UI since then. And now they're using Microsoft Design Language 2.0.

[boris]

still listen to my zune 80... but the battery dies after an hour

[tyjmms]

I have my galaxy S8 android home screen set up as best I could like my zune hd, I love it.

[connorvaughn]

I can't think of many products that start with a Z that were ever successful.

[Suiax]

I still think the Zune was better than the iPod. At least not the touch screen models.

[FirstNameLastName-djvl]

so xbox wasn't the first time microsoft proved to us that they couldn't count

[bisamsapkota]

zune just sounds like a terrible word.