"Judgment day has arrived for owners of 30GB (and only 30GB) Zunes. The music player inexplicably entered a worldwide coma last night, and players are completely non responsive." [Kroc: I wonder if this is anything like the bug that caused Windows 98 to crash after 49 days when the tick-count exceeded 32-bits :P]
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Member since:2005-08-28
The 30 GB Zune is the original Zune, and likely does have rather different hardware than subsequent Zunes.
I recall some amazement in DAP circles when Microsoft actually released firmware updates to bring their first-generation products all the bells and whistles of the second generation (unlike, for instance, Apple and pretty much all other manufacturers, other than Samsung and Cowon...)
Member since:2006-03-08
Member since:2005-11-13
Yeah, I read somewhere that the 30GB Zune runs on different hardware and the drivers (or whatever) was developed by Toshiba, where as the latter ones were developed by Microsoft. Sure, it's a big screw-up and MS is ultimately to blame, but I wouldn't subscribe to any conspiracy theories.
Note: I bought a Zune for myself as a Christmas present, but returned it a day later. What a dreadful device that is.
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2006-03-08
Not a nefarious conspiracy, just poor QA, and a clusterfsck overall.
See that was my first assumption, but that still leaves the question open of why just the 30GB model?