The loneliness of joining the social

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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A lonely LA Craigslist user is looking for Zune love in all the wrong places. He posted a “Strictly Platonic” personal looking for someone to share music wirelessly with. As we all know, if you own a Zune and you go looking for someone to share with, you’re probably going to wander for a long time. The whole draw of the Wi-Fi was originally to “meet” people randomly and rock out to each others tunes. The dearth of Zunes clearly puts a damper on this and we’re not quite surprised.

It’s cool that the Zune has Wi-Fi and I have nothing against the hardware. Sadly, however, I think MS bungled this early on by not talking up — and hobbling — the sharing. Maybe this guy should try Z4Z?

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