Zune’s Wireless Almost Totally Worthless. I Don’t Agree
Engadget recently posted an article about what the Zune’s wireless is good for and mentioned:
You can search for and find other Zunes nearby. You can send songs / albums for the 3 x 3 trial. Songs past the three days / listens are deleted at next sync, but catalogued on your PC for record-keeping should you want to purchase them later. No word on whether Microsoft is going to keep track of which files are traded. You can send and receive image files for ‘unlimited viewing.’ (Oh, so copyrighted images aren’t worth DRMing?) You can’t: Connect to the internet, Download songs directly from the Zune store via WiFi, Sync to your computer via WiFi.”
But I think they missed one thing here. This 3 x 3 trial only applies for songs downloaded from Microsoft Zune Marketplace and not for any other mp3 songs. So Zune wireless allows you to share any mp3 which is not bought from Zune marketplace without any trouble. And I think, this will be a very big plus point for Microsoft competing with Apple iPod.
And yes, we agree that it would have been great if Zune WiFi allowed us to connect to internet or computer wirelessly. But then, what will Microsoft keep for the next version.
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