Bach Says No to Blu-ray in Xbox 720, First Party ZunePhone

re: Bach Says No to Blu-ray in Xbox 720, First Party ZunePhone

Aaron Rodriguez — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:40:44 GMT

and yes i know i had a bunch of grammar errors in the first post.... i was moving points around.

and i was going to add this to the first post (but cant do much w/o an edit button). but sadly i think by the time ms wakes up and realizes that they need to make a phone themselves (a la zune/ipod) it will again be too late in the game for them to compete against the entrenched iphone (much like zune has struggled to steal ipod marketshare). they are making the exact same mistake they made with the ipod and its pretty sad to see it happening again.

and they could still release windows mobile like they do now and let the oem's do whatever they want. but ms should be in this game making a phone too. if they can do it better which they could easily do considering the other phones out there currently it would only increase the competition and force the oem's to make better phones.

re: Bach Says No to Blu-ray in Xbox 720, First Party ZunePhone

chrisl — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:16:18 GMT

Aaron: Strongly agree. Microsoft strength in providing software to OEMs is also it's main downfall.

Alex: Maybe one day it will make sense for Microsoft to do it, and I can't wait for that. :)

re: Bach Says No to Blu-ray in Xbox 720, First Party ZunePhone

Alex — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:40:51 GMT

Chris, looks like you were right again. The rumors were false this morning about Blu-ray in the XBox360. If anyone knows Microsoft better than you, I'd be surprised.

Blu-ray is dead as far as Microsoft is concerned. Long live the standard DVD!

re: Bach Says No to Blu-ray in Xbox 720, First Party ZunePhone

Aaron Rodriguez — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:07:53 GMT

I personally really hate that ms doesnt want to make a phone?.... By far one of the biggest advantages the iphone has over other brands is the ability to be updated by apple and add meaningful new features (just look at the 2.0 software). with current windows mobile devices are just a mess with respect to updates because its not a os/system wide update. updates to windows mobile phones require the maker of the phone actually takes the time to add the new features/updates and creates a new release for it. (which a majority do not)

i for one would love to see a completely controlled ms/zune phone and we could get things like the zune 2.5 updates.

i am going to wait for ces09 to see what windows mobile 7 looks like but i havent seen anything like a windows update for mobile yet where the updates would come directly from ms because i am very seriously considering an iphone now because im not going to make the same mistake i did with my moto Q and windows mobile where ive been stuck with the same phone for ~2yrs now.