Case in point:

Zune: Microsoft Developing Copyright Filter for Zune, Will Block Pirated Content

“In the long term, the consumer wants there to be quality premium-produced content, and in order for that to continue to be a viable business, there needs to be significant protection around it.” This is the same NBC that was working with AT&T to build a network-wide dragnet for pirated content, so color us totally not surprised. Just don’t know why Microsoft would agree to this and give people a reason to avoid Zunes (whether it’s a legitimate one or not), when they’re already way behind the iPod (which told NBC to take a flying hoo-ha).

Awesome article. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon

Buy what you like, where you like. But remember why things are the way they are. Apple is more expensive than Amazon because the labels want you listening to music on a Zune.

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Top 10 Reasons the iPhone is Incomparable - Wait-a-Thon - Phone different

Comparisons to the iPhone just wont stop, despite the fact that the iPhone is pretty much incomparable. Dont believe me? Ive got ten reasons to back me up. And these arent minor feature gripes or personal peccadilloes. In proper Apple fashion, these are just 10 simple little words…

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, April 26th Edition - Phone different

Brian has branched out his excellent Tips column to TreoCentral, with a handy, dandy gem for contact lookups. By accident, however, he seems to have included screenshots from the 1999 vintage Palm V PDA’s app instead of the latest, greatest Treo 2008 version. The 2-bit, non anti-aliased interface is a dead give a–

What? Those are screenshots of the latest, greatest Treo?

Gulp! Moving on…

So my friend got an Xbox Arcade for his birthday. He wanted to use it primarily as a Media Center Extender, so the Arcade SKU made sense. When he opened it and tried to set it up, however, he discovered that the power cable they provided was not compatible with the Xbox SKU he’d received. It could literally not be plugged in (there was a difference in the middle section of the cable that didn’t match the middle section of the socket on the Xbox unit).

We took the Xbox back to the Big Box retailer and customer service told us it was the second one they’d had returned for that reason (I forgot to ask in how long, but it was in the rep’s recent memory).

There as no other Arcade SKU in stock, so we “upgraded” the Pro SKU, which had the same power cable as the Arcade, but a different socket on the Xbox unit which accepted it just fine (we checked in-store before leaving with it).